LAXC 252: Introduction to Latin American, Latinx and Caribbean Studies - McCleary

Ebook. "Aims to promote knowledge, understanding and the truth of Black History in an important but often overlooked former Spanish colony of Argentina."
Gayle, Pamela. The Black History Truth - Argentina : No Hay Gente Negroes Acqui (There Are No Black People Here). La Vergne: Grosvenor House Publishing, 2022.

Ebook. "The history of how six Latin American countries acknowledge--or deny--their African past 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World during the Middle Passage."
Read the chapter “The Dominican Republic: ‘Black behind the Ears.’”
Gates, Henry Louis. “The Dominican Republic: ‘Black behind the Ears.’” In Black in Latin America, 119–45. New York: New York University Press, 2011.

Ebook. "Designed as a survey and focused on key examples and movements arranged chronologically from 1903 to 2003, this is the first comprehensive history of modern architecture in Latin America in any language."
Read the chapter "The Columbus Memorial Lighthouse Competition Sparks an Investigation into what Architecture for Latin America Should Be Like"
Carranza, Luis E., and Fernando Luiz. Lara. "The Columbus Memorial Lighthouse Competition Sparks an Investigation into what Architecture for Latin America Should Be Like." In Modern Architecture in Latin America : Art, Technology, and Utopia, 42-46. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014.

Ebook. "Critically surveys a wide selection of travel practices, places, and time periods in considering the development of the hospitality industry in Latin America and the Caribbean."
Read the chapter “‘Created by God’ (or Columbus?) For Tourism: Building Tourism Fantasy in the Dominican Republic, 1966–1978”
Manley, Elizabeth. “‘Created by God’ (or Columbus?) For Tourism: Building Tourism Fantasy in the Dominican Republic, 1966–1978.” In The Business of Leisure: Tourism History in Latin America and the Caribbean, edited by Andrew Grant Wood, 245–76. University of Nebraska Press, 2021.

Ebook. "Despite its significance in the history of Spanish colonialism, the Dominican Republic is familiar to most outsiders through only a few elements of its past and culture. Non-Dominicans may be aware that the country shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti and that it is where Christopher Columbus chose to build a colony."
Roorda, Eric, Lauren Derby, and Raymundo González, eds. The Dominican Republic Reader : History, Culture, Politics. Durham: Duke University Press, 2014.

Ebook. "When Columbus arrived in the Americas, the first people he encountered were the Tainos, inhabitants of the islands of the northern Caribbean Sea. In this book a noted archeologist and anthropologist tells the story of the Tainos from their ancestral days on the South American continent to their rapid decline after contact with the Spanish explorers."
Rouse, Irving. The Tainos : Rise & Decline of the People Who Greeted Columbus. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.

Ebook. "Through specific discussions of the native peoples of the different regions of Mexico, the chapters on the period since the arrival of the Europeans address the themes of contact, exchange, transfer, survivals, continuities, resistance, and the emergence of modern nationalism and the nation-state."
Adams, Richard E. W., and Murdo J MacLeod. The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas. Vol. 2, Mesoamerica. Part 2. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Ebook. "The history of how six Latin American countries acknowledge--or deny--their African past 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World during the Middle Passage."
Read the chapter "Mexico: 'The Black Grandma in the Closet.'"
Gates, Henry Louis. “Mexico: ‘The Black Grandma in the Closet.’” In Black in Latin America, 59–90. New York: New York University Press, 2011.

Primary source
"Cortés's letters to the Emperor from Mexico are half-letters, half-despatches. The letters were all written between 1519 and 1526... Letter Three: This letter covers the advance of Cortés into Culua, the assault on the capital itself and the various enterprises undertaken by the Conqueror to extend his power throughout Mexico."
Cortés, Hernando. Five Letters, 1519-1526. London: Routledge, 2014.

Ebook. "Sadly, harsh treatment extinguished the culture that we today call Taíno or Arawak. In an effort to repay their debt to the past and the present, the authors have focused on the relationship between the Taínos of the past (revealed through archaeological investigations) and the present natural history of the islands. Bringing the past to life and highlighting commonalities between past and present, they emphasize Taíno words and beliefs about their worldview and culture."
Keegan, William F., and Lisabeth A. Carlson. Talking Taino Caribbean Natural History from a Native Perspective. University of Alabama Press, 2010.