Pick a chapter from Peter Winn, Americas, except prefaces and epilogue. Read it and focus on one
aspect or controversy that you find especially compelling. Describe how Winn analyzes this topic and
further elaborate on it by choosing one authorized source from each of the four source categories listed
below. Your job is to expand, complement, and/or challenge Winn’s arguments by incorporating into your
analysis four authorized sources from the categories that follow:
● One news article (Part I, either a or b)
● One Podcast (Part II, below)
● One Film (Part III, either a, b, or c).
● A fourth source of your choice. According to your topic, this can be: a) a piece of artwork (music,
visual, video, theater, photograph, or other); or b) an interview with a family member, friend,
classmate, peer, coworker, professor, or other; or c) personal recollections, observations,
experiences from trips, or other.
I. NEWS, AND NEWS ANALYSIS SOURCES
a) Magazines, News Analysis
· NACLA (Published in the US) In English, Focused analyses on current topics https://nacla.org
(1970s to present)
· Nueva Sociedad. Published in Argentina, In Spanish. Focused analyses on current topics
Current Issues: https://nuso.org/edicion-digital/
Archive of previous issues https://nuso.org/edicion-impresa/
b) Shorter journalistic articles
· Chose one article from a newspaper from this list of Latin American news sources by
countries: http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/news/ (in Spanish, some English and Portuguese), or,
chose an article from:
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· BBC, Latin America and the Caribbean, https://www.bbc.com/news/world/latin_america
· The Guardian, Americas https://www.theguardian.com/world/americas
· The New York Times, Americas https://www.nytimes.com/section/world/americas
· The New York Times, Spanish edition:
https://www.nytimes.com/es/?redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F
· El País in Spanish. https://elpais.com/internacional/, in English: https://english.elpais.com/
II. PODCASTS
· Radio Ambulante, from NPR. Podcasts in Spanish with English transcripts:
https://radioambulante.org/en/ Podcasts in Spanish: https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510315/radioambulante
Historias Podcast (in English) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/historiaspodcast/id1499751225
· Nueva Sociedad, In Spanish (current situation in Bolivia, Colombia, Chile, Venezuela, a
https://nuso.org/podcast/
· The Daily, a podcast from The New Times (in English), “Capitalism on Trial in Chile” (2019)
“A Translation Crisis at the Border”. A story of a Maya Mam language interpreter in U.S.
Courts New York Times Magazine (2019), in English:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/06/a-translation-crisis-at-the-border
III. FILMS
a) Any of the films available from the GauchoCast block in this course, the syllabus, the weekly
handouts, or the links provided in the weekly sections of this course’s GauchoSpace page.
b) Any of the 10 documentaries from the series Americas released as a companion to the book
Americas, by Peter Winn ( South Burlington, VT: Annenberg/CPB Collection, c1993), 60 minutes each.
Retrieve them here with your Box account:
https://ucsb.app.box.com/s/vrozyp2gz3npbma8oama2jo6eu3zw9tl
Volumes: 1. The Garden of Forking Paths, 2. Capital Sins, 3. Continent on the Move, 4. Mirrors of the
Heart 5. In Women’s Hands, 6. Miracles are Not Enough, 7. Builders of Images, 8. Get Up, Stand Up, 9.
Fire in the Mind , 10. The Americans (find them also as VHS video cassettes in the library: https://ucsbprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/1egv95m/01UCSB_ALMA21233922130003776)
c) Any of the following films:
● Camila, Director María Luisa Bemberg (ideal for chapter 3, “Perils of Progress”), watch from
Gaucho Cast https://gauchocast.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=cdedf385-
1fbb-45ad-8673-ae4401252953 or here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8ILovV0UDY&t=4574s (
● El Norte, Director Gregory Nava. About migration from Guatemala to the US (ideal for chapter 14,
“North of the Border”)
● Granito. Director Pamela Yates. About the trial of the dictator Ríos Montt in Guatemala and US
intervention to crush revolutions. Available in DVD from the Library, or web platforms (ideal for
chapters 12, “Endangered States” or 13, “Making Revolutions”). ** Expected in GauchoCast.
● When the Mountains Tremble, Dir. Pamela Yates. About guerrillas in Guatemala, featuring
indigenous activist Rigoberta Menchú (Good for chapter 7, “Children of the Sun” or 13 “Making
revolutions”)
Your paper should be typed, double-spaced, and 1,100 words in length discounting footnotes, references,
name, date, and title. Your TA will decide if you should submit it in Word or PDF, please follow their
instructions. Your paper must have a title, an argument, bibliographical references, and citations
following the guidelines provided in Mary Lynn Rampolla, A Pocket Guide to Writing in History. You
can also find citation guidance in The Chicago Manual of Style. Make sure to proofread your paper for
errors. The quality of your writing will affect your grade!
