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Azuela, Mariano. The Underdogs. New York, NY: Signet Classic, 1996. ISBN: 9780451526250.

Dorfman, Ariel. Heading South, Looking North: A Bilingual Journey. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1998. ISBN: 9780374168629.

Skidmore, Thomas E., and Peter H. Smith. Modern Latin America. 6th ed. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780195170139.

Vasconcelos, José. The Cosmic Race. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780801856556.

Andrews, George Reid. "A Transfusion of New Blood: Whitening, 1880-1930." In Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2004, 117-51. ISBN: 9780195152326.

Benjamin, Thomas. "Festival: A Vigorous Mexico Arising." In La Revolucíon: Mexico's Great Revolution as Memory, Myth, and History. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2000, pp. 99-116. ISBN: 9780292708808.

Bouvard, Marguerite Guzman. "The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo," and "The Mothers Come Together." In Revolutionizing Motherhood: The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2002, pp. 1-17, 65-91. ISBN: 9780842024860

Craske, Nikki. "Women and Political Identity in Latin America," and "Feminisms in Latin America." In Women and Politics in Latin America. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1999, pp. 9-25, 162-91. ISBN: 9780813526935.

Dominguez, Jorge. "Cuba Since 1959." In Cuba: A Short History. Edited by Leslie Bethell. Cambridge, UK and New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1993, pp. 95-139. ISBN: 9780521436823.

Feitlowitz, Marguerite. "Night and Fog." In A Lexicon of Terror: Argentina and the Legacies of Torture. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 63-88. ISBN: 9780195106350.

Freyre, Gilberto. "Brazil as a European Civilization in the Tropics." In New World in the Tropics: The Culture of Modern Brazil. New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959, pp. 141-65.

Guillermoprieto, Alma. "Colombia." In Looking For History: Dispatches From Latin America. New York, NY, Pantheon Books, 2001, pp. 18-71. ISBN: 9780375420948.

"Introduction," "Letitia Herrera," "Luz Beatriz Arellano," and "Aida Gutiérrez." In Life Stories of the Nicaraguan Revolution. Edited by Denis Lynn, and Daly Heyck. New York, NY: Routledge, 1990, pp. 1-20, 87-105, 163-82, 333-40. ISBN: 9780415902113.

Johnson, John J. Latin America in Caricature. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1980, pp. 210-55. ISBN: 9780292746268.

Levine, Robert M. "Vargas's Incomplete Revolution." In Father of the Poor? Vargas and his Era. Cambridge, UK and New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. 112-38. ISBN: 9780521585286.

Lockwood, Lee. "A North American Journalist Interviews Castro." In People and Issues in Latin American History from Independence to the Present. 2nd ed. Edited by Lewis Hanke, and Jane M. Rausch. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener, 1999, pp. 326-45. ISBN: 9781558761957.

Marquez, Gabriel García. "The Solitude of Latin America: Nobel Address, 1982."

Orozco, José Clemente. The Epic of American Civilization.

Perón, Eva. "My Mission in Life." In People and Issues in Latin American History from Independence to the Present. 2nd ed. Edited by Lewis Hanke, and Jane M. Rausch. Princeton, NJ: Markus Wiener, 1999, pp. 251-69. ISBN: 9781558761957.

Romero, Luis Alberto. A History of Argentina in the Twentieth Century. Translated by James P. Brennan. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2002, pp. 1-58. ISBN: 9780271021928.

Smith, Peter H. Talons of the Eagle: Dynamics of U.S.-Latin American Relations. 2nd ed. Oxford, UK and New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 63-142. ISBN: 9780195129984.

Susman, Armando. "Two 2 Tango."

Williams, Daryle. "Museums and Memory." In Culture Wars in Brazil: The First Vargas Regime, 1930-1945. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001, pp. 135-76. ISBN: 9780822327196.

Bradbury, David. Fond Memories of Cuba (Australia, 2002, 77 min).

Guzman, Patricio. The Battle of Chile (1975, excerpts).

Films for the Humanities and Sciences. Televangelism in Brazil (1999).

Valenti, Alexander. Coffee. A Sack Full of Power (52 min).