Latin American History Paper

You must choose one of two prompts and build your own argument using course materials.

Length / format requirements

• Roughly 56 pages
• Double-spaced
• 12-point font
• About 12501500 words
• More than five paragraphs

What you must include (required)

Your paper must have all of these:

• 34 specific, concrete, well-developed historical examples from course materials
• You must clearly locate those examples in geographic space and historical time
• You must use at least one of:
• an excerpt from the professors unpublished manuscript, or
• at least one class lecture
• You must integrate at least 3 readings by 3 different authors from the syllabus for Weeks 25 (required and/or supplementary)
• One of those can be the unpublished manuscript if you want

Citation style required

• Footnotes are required
• Footnotes must be in Chicago Style
• Bibliography is not necessary

Prompt 1

Were caste classifications in colonial (pre-1825) Spanish America imposed by force on the population by colonial authorities and elites to keep everyone in his or her place according to a rigid hierarchy? Or was caste flexible, shaped and contested from below by people of diverse statuses in colonial society? Build your argument by describing and analyzing at least 3-4 specific examples.

Prompt 2

Develop an argument about how caste (or race) and gender (or sexuality) together shaped womens lives and social status in eighteenth and/or nineteenth-century Latin America. Elaborate on at least 3-4 specific concrete historical examples as evidence for your argument. You likely need to draw one or more of the supplementary readings from week 4 of the syllabus to answer this question fully.