Required Text:
Reader of selected articles and book chapters (available for purchase via the UCLA NAID Center).
Cardoso, Fernando Henrique and Enzo Faletto, Dependency and Development in Latin America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979.
Recommended Text and References:
Clark Reynolds, Raul Hinojosa and Jorge Bustamante (eds.) Labor Market Interdependence Between the U.S. and Mexico (Stanford: Stanford University Press) 1992.
Harley Shaiken, Mexico in the Global Economy: High Technology and Work Organization in Export Industries (San Diego: UCSD Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies) 1990.
Castaneda, Jorge G., The Mexican Shock: Its Meaning for the U.S.. New York: The New Press, 1995.
Robert Pastor and Jorge Castaneda, Limits to Friendship: The United States and Mexico (New York: Random House) 1989.
Sydney Weintraub, A Marriage of Convenience (New York: Oxford) 1990.
Hinojosa-Ojeda, Raul, et al., The National and Local Labor Market Impacts of North American Integration After NAFTA: Towards a Unified Framework for Tracking, Modeling, and Internet Data Accessing. Report to the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs. Los Angeles: UCLA NAID Center (December) 1996.
Instituto Nacional
de EstadRstica GeografRa e Inform<tica, EstadRsticas Hist\ricas de MJxico,
Tomo I y II., 1986.
Secrataria de Programaci\n y Presupuesto, Bases informativas para la utilizacion del modelo de insumo- producto: Homegeneizacion de las Matrices 1950-1960-1970. Tomo I, 1980.
Secrataria de Programaci\n y Presupuesto, Bases informativas para la utilizacion del modelo de insumo- producto: Bases Informativas para el An<lisis de los Cambios Estructurales de la EconomRa Mexicana en el Periodo 1950-1970. Tomo II, 1980.
NAID INTERNET LINKS (naidlink.html)
Week 1: The Political Economy of Uneven Development
Required:
Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Enzo Faletto, Dependency and Development in Latin America: READ: Intro and Chapter II.
Background and Related Materials:
Alain de Janvry, The Agrarian Question and Reformism in Latin America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981. Chapter 1, "Laws of Motion of the Center-Periphery Structure", p. 7- 55.
Hinojosa, R. "Interdependence and Class Relations: A Long View Perspective on the U.S. and Latin America," in C. Reynolds et al. The Political Economy of U.S.-Latin American Interdependence. Book submitted to Stanford University Press.
Sheahan, John, Patterns of Development in Latin America: Poverty, Repression, and Economic Strategy, (Princeton) Princeton University Press, 1987. Chapters 1 and 2, pp. 3-48.
Lowenthal, Abraham F., Partners in Conflict: The United States in Latin America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987. Chapter 2, pp. 25-65.
Gilpin, Robert, The Political Economy of International Relations. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987.
Hirschman, A., "The Rise and Decline of Development Economics," in Essays in Trespassing: Economics to Politics and Beyond. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
Niemi, Albert W., U.S. Economic History: A Survey of the Major Issues. Chicago: Rand McNally College Publishing Co., 1975.
Week 2: Phase 1: Territorial Expansion, the Second Conquest, and the Origins of Uneven Development
Required:
Cardoso and Faletto: Chapter 3.
Raúl Hinojosa-Ojeda (1998). "North American Integration and Concepts of Human Rights: Reflections on 150 Years of Treaty Making." Forthcoming: Southwestern Journal of Law and Trade in the Americas. Paper presented at a Conference on "Understanding The Treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo On Its 150th Anniversary", Southwestern University School of Law, Los Angeles, California, Friday, February 6, 1998.
Monroy, Douglas, Thrown Among Strangers: The Making of Mexican Culture in Frontier California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. READ: from "Spain and the Indians of Alta California" [3-18].
Vásquez, Josefina Zoraida, and Meyer, Lorenzo, The United States and Mexico. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1985. READ: Vásquez, Josefina Zoraida, "The Weight of the Past: … 1821" [11-24] and "The Most Difficult Decades: 1824-1848" [25-50].
Johannsen, Robert W., To the Halls of the Montezuma: The Mexican War in the American Imagination. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985. READ: "Prologue"[3-6] and "America’s First Foreign War"[7-20].
Turner, Frederick, "Xenophobia and the War 1847", in Raat, W. Dirk, Mexico: From Independence to Revolution, 1810-1910. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1982. READ [91-98].
Acuna, Rodolfo, "Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo", in Raat, W. Dirk, Mexico: From Independence to Revolution, 1810-1910. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1982. READ [99-104].
Montejano, David, Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1987. READ: "Introduction" [1-11].
READ: http://www.monterey.edu/other-sites/history/treaty.html.
Recommended:
Fuentes, Carlos, The Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World. New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1992.
Katz, Friedrich, Situacion social y economica de los aztecas durante los siglos xv y xvi. {1. ed. en espanol. Traduccion al castellano de Mar a Luisa R. Rodr guez Sala y Elsa B hler.} Mexico, Instituto de Investigaciones Historicas, 1966.
Katz, Friedrich, The ancient American civilizations. London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1972.
Duncan, David Ewing, Hernando de Soto: A Savage Quest in the Americas. New York: Crown Publishers Inc., 1996.
Semo, Enrique, The History of Capitalism in Mexico: Its Origins, 1521-1763. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993.
Raat, W. Dirk, Mexico: From Independence to Revolution, 1810-1910. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1982,
Alba, Victor, "Mexico’s Several Independences", in Raat, W. Dirk, Mexico: From Independence to Revolution, 1810-1910. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1982 [6-16].
Velez-Ibanez, Carlos G., Border Visions: Mexican cultures of the Southwest United States. Tuscon: University of Arizona Press, 1996. Chapter 1: "Without Border, The Original Vision", p. 20 - 56.
Heidler, David S., and Heidler, Jeanne T., Old Hickory’s War: Andrew Jackson and the Quest for Empire. Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1996.
Singletary, Otis A., The Mexican War. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1960.
Griswold del Castillo, Richard, The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: a legacy of conflict. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990.
Vasquez, Josefina Zoraida , and Meyer, Lorenzo, Mexico frente a Estados Unidos: Un ensayo hist\rico 1776-1988.) Mexico, Fondo de Cultura Econ\mica, 1989.
McWilliams, Carey, North from Mexico: The Spanish-Speaking People of the United States. New York: Praeger Publishers, [1948] 1990.
Rosenbaum, Robert J., Mexicano Resistance in the Southwest: ‘The Sacred Right to Self-Preservation’. Austin, University of Texas Press, 1981.
Almaguer, Tomas, Racial Fault Lines: The Historical Origins of White Supremacy in California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
Week 3: Integration and Revolution in the 19th Century
Required:
Cardoso and Faletto: Chapter 4.
Vasquez, Josefina Zoraida, and Meyer, Lorenzo, The United States and Mexico. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1985. READ: Vasquez, Josefina Zoraida, "Toward an Understanding with Mexican Liberals: 1868-1898" [72-92] and Lorenzo Meyer, "The Fall of Diaz and the End of a Good Relationship: 1904-1910" [95-102].
Freeman Smith, Robert, A The DRaz Era: Background to the Revolution of 1910", in Raat, W. Dirk, Mexico: From Independence to Revolution, 1810-1910. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1982. READ [99-104].
Coatsworth, John, "Railroads, Landholdings, and Agrarian Protest." in Raat, W. Dirk, Mexico: From Independence to Revolution, 1810-1910. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 1982. READ [99-104].
Recommended:
Roger Hanson, The Politics of Mexican Development (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press)
David Montejano, Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas (Austin: University of Texas Press), 1987: chapters 1 and 2.
John Coatsworth, Growth Against Development: Railroads and the Mexican Revolution (Dekalb, Ill.: University of Northern Illinois Press) 1984: chapters 5 and 6.
Haber, Stephen H., Industry and Underdevelopment: The Industrialization of Mexico, 1890-1940. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1989.
Monroy, Douglas, Thrown Among Strangers: The Making of Mexican Culture in Frontier California. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990: "At Considerable Less Wages: Mexicans and the Labor Crisis of Southern California" [233-277].
Lawrence A. Cardoso, Mexican Emigration to the United States (Tuscon: University of Arizona Press) 1980.
Mario Barrera, Race and Class in the Southwest (South Bend, Ind.: Norte Dame University Press) 1979.
Adolfo Gilly, The Interrupted Revolution (London: Verso) 1987.
Katz, F., The Secret War in Mexico. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983.
Knight, Alan, The Mexican Revolution. Vol. 2, Counter-Revolution and Reconstruction. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Fishlow, Albert, "Lessons from the past: capital markets during the 19th century and the Interwar Period," in Miles Kahler (ed.) The Politics of International Debt. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985, 37-94.
Harlow, Neal, California Conquered: The Annexation of a Mexican Province, 1846-1850. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982
Griswold del Castillo, Richard, The Los Angeles Barrio, 1850-1890: A Social History. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1979.
Rios-Bustamente,
Antonio, Mexican Los Angeles: A Narrative and Pictorial History.
Encino, CA, Floricanto Press, 1992.
RodriguJz O., Jaime
E., The Mexican American Experience in the 19th Century.
Tempe, Arizona: Bilingual Press, 1989.
Week 4: From Depression to Post-War Boom
Required:
Cardoso and Faletto, READ: Chapter 5, pp 127-148.
Nora Hamilton, The Limits to State Autonomy: Post Revolutionary Mexico. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1982. READ: Chapters 1 and 8.
Aguilar Camin, Hector, and Meyer, Lorenzo, In the Shadow of the Mexican Revolution: Contemporary Mexican History, 1910-1989. Austin, University of Texas Press, 1993. READ: "The Mexican Miracle: 1940-1968" [159-198].
Recommended:
Prebisch, Raul, "The Economic Development of Latin America: Its Principal Problems", Economic Buletin for Latin America, vol. 7, no.1, (February) 1962, pp. 1-22.
Albert Hirschman, "The Political Economy of Import- Substituting Industrialization in Latin America", The Quarterly Journal of Economics, February, 1968, pp. 2-32.
Thomas Wood, Clash, United States- Mexican Relations, 1940-1946: A Study of United States Interests and Policies. State University of New York at Buffalo, 1972.
Patterson, James T., Grand Expectations: The United States 1945-1974. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Rock, David, Latin America in the 1940's: War and Postwar Transitions. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1994.
Contreras, Ariel JosJ, MJxico 1940: Industrializaci\n y Crisis PolRtica. MJxico: Sigo Veintiuno Editores, 1983.
Collier, Ruth Bernis and David Collier, Shaping the Arena: Critical Junctures, The Labor Movement, and Regime Dynamics in Latin America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991.
Collier, Ruth Berins, The Contradictory Alliance: State-Labor Relations in Regime Change. University of California at Berkeley, International and Area Studies, 1992.
Lorey, David, The University System: The Economic Development of Mexico Since 1929. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993.
Vernon, Raymond, The Dilemma of Mexico=s Development. London: Oxford University Press, 1963.
Reyna, JosJ Luis, and Weinert, Richard S., Authoritarianism in Mexico. Philadelphia, Institute for the Study of Human Issues, 1977.
Weber, Devra, Dark Sweat, White Gold: California Farm Workers, Cotton, and the New Deal. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
Abraham Hoffman Unwanted Mexican Americans in the Great Depression (Tuscon: University of Arizona Press) 1974.
Diaz-Alejandro, Carlos, "Latin America and the World: Stories of the 1930s for the 1980s," in Pedro Aspe, et al., (eds.), Financial Policies and the World Capital Markets. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983, pp. 5-35.
Week 5: Decades of Crisis: Oil, Debt and Industrial Restructuring
Required:
Aguilar Camin, Hector, and Meyer, Lorenzo, In the Shadow of the Mexican Revolution: Contemporary Mexican History, 1910-1989. Austin, University of Texas Press, 1993. READ: "The Fading of the Miracle: 1968-1984" [199-250].
Robert R. Kaufman, The Politics of Debt in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico (Berkeley: Institute for International Studies) 1988. READ: Chapter Two [59-104].
Background and Related Materials:
Hinojosa-Ojeda, R. "Industrial Policies in the United States and Mexico: The Problem of a Hegemonic Consensus," in M. Garcia y Griego and G. Vega (eds.), Mexico-Estados Unidos: 1984, Mexico City: El Colegio de Mexico. 1985. pp.
Lustig, Nora, Distribuci\n del Ingreso y Crecimiento de MJxico: Un an<lisis de las ideas estructuralistas. MJxico, El Colegio de MJxico, 1981.
Daniel Levy and Gabriel Szekely Mexico: Paradoxes of Stability and Change (Boulder: Westview Press) 1987: Chapter 7 -"Oil Policy: A Case Study of Mexican Development."
Griffith-Jones, Stephany and Osvaldo Sunkel, Debt and Development Crisis in Latin America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986, chapters 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, & 10.
Reynolds, C.W., D. Lessard, and R. Hinojosa, Growth and Debt: Mexico and the United States in the Medium Term. Washington: American Enterprise Institute, 1986.
Hinojosa Ojeda and Rebecca Morales. "International Restructuring and Labor Market Interdependence: The Automobile Industry in Mexico and the United States." In J. Bustamante, C. W. Reynolds, and R. Hinojosa (eds.), U.S.-Mexico Relations: Labor Market Interdependence. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992: 397-428.
Fernando Fajnzylber, Unavoidable Industrial Restructuring in Latin America (Durham: Duke University Press) 1990.
Maxfield, Sylvia Governing Capital: State and Finance in Mexico (Cornell: Cornell University Press) 1990.
Maxfield, Sylvia, and Anzaldda Montoya, Ricardo, Government and Private Sector in Contemporary Mexico. University of California, San Diego, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, 1987.
Sanderson, Steven E., The Transformation of Mexican Agriculture: International Structure of the Politics of Rural Change. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986.
Fox, Jonathan, The Politics of Food in Mexico: State Power and Social Mobilization. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992.
Schwartzman, Stephen, Bankrolling Disasters: International Development Banks and the Global Environment. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1986.
Pastor, M., "The Effects of IMF Programs in the Third World: Debate and Evidence from Latin America," World Development, vol. 15, no. 2, (Winter) 1986, pp. 249-262.
Cline, W., International Debt: Systemic Risk and Policy Response. Washington: Institute for International Economics, 1984.
Watkins, Alfred, Till Debt Do Us Part: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Who Pays for the International Debt Crisis. Washington: Roosevelt Center, 1986.
Haggard, Stephan, Pathways from the Periphery: The Politics of Growth in the Newly Industrializing Countries. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990.
Week 6: Labor Market Interdependence
Required:
Cornelius, W., "America in the Era of Limits: Migrants Nativists and the Future of U.S.-Mexican Relations," in C. Vasquez and M. Garcia y Griego (eds.), Mexican-U.S. Relations: Conflict and Convergence. Los Angeles: UCLA, 1983.
Reynolds, C. W., "Labor Market Projections for the United States and Mexico and Their Relevance to Current Migration Controversies," Food Research Institute Special Reprints, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1982.
Raul Hinojosa and Robert McCleery, "Labor Market Interdependence and Social Pacts across Mexico and the U.S." in J. Bustamante, R. Hinojosa and C. Reynolds (eds.), U.S.-Mexico Labor Market Interdependence, (1992).
Hayes Buatista, David, "The Young Latino Population in an Aging America Society," in J. Bustamante, R. Hinojosa and C. Reynolds (eds.), U.S.-Mexico Labor Market Interdependence, (1992).
Background and Related Materials:
Hinojosa, R., "The Class Politics of International Capital and Labor Flows", Contemporary Marxism, no. 6, 1983.
Carnoy, Martin, Hugh Daley, and Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda. Latinos in a Changing U.S. Economy: Comparative Perspectives on Income Inequality in the U.S. Labor Market since 1940. New York: IUP/CUNY. 1990.
Hinojosa Ojeda, R. "The Political Economy of Latino Employment and Income." In Thomas Weaver, Nico Kanellos, and Claudio Esteva-Fabregat (eds.), Handbook of Hispanic Cultures in the United States: Anthropology. Houston, Texas: Arte Publico Press, Instituto de Cooperacion Iberoamericano and Agencia Espanola de Cooperacion International. 1994: 107-128.
Portes, Alejandro and Robert Bach, Latin Journey: Cuban and Mexican Immigrants in the United States. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985.
Cross, Harry E., and Sandos, James A., Across the Border: Rural Development in Mexico and Recent Migration to the United States. Berkeley: Institute of Governmental Studies, 1981.
Cockcroft, James D., Outlaws in the Promised Land: Mexican Immigrant Workers and America’s Future. New York: Grove Press, 1986, pp. 64-115.
Weeks, John R., and Ham-Chande, Roberto, Demographic Dynamics of the U.S.-Mexico Border. El Paso, Texas: Texas Western Press, 1992.
Dunn, Timothy J., The Militarization of the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1978-1992. Austin: University of Texas (Center for Mexican American Studies)
Urrea, Luis Alberto, By the Lake of Sleeping Children: The Secret Life of the Mexican Border. New York: Double Day, 1996.
GutiJrrez, David G., Between Two Worlds: Mexican Immigrants and the United States. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources Inc., 1996
Massey, Douglas, et. al., Return of Aztlan: The Social Progress of International Migration from Western Mexico. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.
Schey, Peter, "Immigration and Human Rights in the 1990s" in J. Bustamante, R. Hinojosa and C. Reynolds (eds.), U.S.- Mexico Labor Market Interdependence. 1992.
Borjas, George J., and Freeman, Richard B. Immigration and the Work Force: Economic Consequences for the United States and Source Areas. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1992.
Muller, Thomas, The Fourth Wave, California’s Newest Immigrants. Washington DC: The Urban Institute Press, 1985.
William B. Johnston, Workforce 2000 (Indianapolis; Hudson Institute) 1987.
Ehrenberg, Ronald G., Labor Markets and Integrating National Economics. Washington D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1994.
Towards a Transnational Perspective on Migration: Race, Class, Ethnicity, and Nationalism Reconsidered. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol. 645, July 6, 1992.
Week
7 : Free Trade, Economic Crisis, and the Politics of Democratic Transition
(Part I)
Required:
Raul Hinojosa and Sherman Robinson, Alternative Scenarios of U.S.-Mexico Integration (Berkeley: UCB Institute for International Studies) 1992.
Hinojosa-Ojeda, R. and Sherman Robinson. "Labor Issues in a North American Free Trade Area." In Nora Lustig, Barry Bosworth, and Robert Lawrence (eds.), North American Free Trade: Assessing the Impact. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution. 1992: 69-108.
Harley Shaiken, Mexico in the Global Economy: High Technology and Work Organization in Export Industries: READ Chapters 1,2,3 and 6.
Fishlow, A., S. Robinson, and R. Hinojosa Ojeda. "Proposal for a North American Regional Development Bank and Adjustment Fund." North American Free Trade: Proceedings of a Conference. Dallas: Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. 1991: 15-22.
Hinojosa-Ojeda, Raul. "The North American Development Bank Forging in New Directions in Regional Integration Policy." Journal of the American Planning Association. Vol. 60, No. 3, Summer 1994: 301-304.
Tom Barry, Harry Browne and Beth Sims, The Great Divide: The Challenge of US-Mexican Relations in the 1990s, (New York: Grove Press, 1994), pp. 287-343*
Recommended Background Material:
Robert Pastor and Jorge Castaneda, Limits to Friendship: The United States and Mexico (New York: Random House) 1989: Part II.
U.S. Congress Committee on Ways and Means, "Hearings on United States-Mexico Economic Relations" Washington, D.C.: June 14 and 28, 1990.
White House, President's Report to the Congress on NAFTA Negotiations, May 1, 1991.
National Toxics Campaign, The Case Against Fast Track in U.S.-Mexico Free Trade Talks (Washington, D.C.: Processed) 1991.
Charles F. Bonser Toward a North American Common Market (Boulder: Westview Press) 1991.
Peter Morici Trade Talks with Mexico: A Time for Realism (Washington: National Planning Association) 1991.
Sydney Weintraub, A Marriage of Convenience (New York: Oxford) 1990.
Lawrence A. Herzog, Where North Meets South: Cities, Space and Politics on the U.S.-Mexico Border (Austin: CMAS/University of Texas) 1990: Chapters 2,3 and 7.
Acuna, Rodolfo F., Anything But Mexican: Chicanos in Contemporary Los Angeles. New York: Verso, 1996.
Hinojosa-Ojeda, Raul A. "From NAFTA Debate to Democratic and Sustainable Integration: Potential Implications of the North American Development Bank." Paper in book submitted to MIT Press for publication edited by Timothy C. Weiskel.
Alan Scott, "Industrial Organization and the Logic of Intra-Metropolitan Location: The Women's Dress Industry in Los Angeles," Economic Geography 60:3-27.
Week 8: Free Trade, Economic Crisis, and the Politics of Democratic Transition (Part II)
Required:
Judith Adler Hellman, Mexican Lives, (New York: New Press, 1994)
Wayne Cornelius, Mexican Politics in Transition: The Breakdown of a One-Party Dominant Regime, (La Jolla: Center for US-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 1996)
Fox, Jonathan, "Towards Democratization in Mexico," Hemisphere, (February), 1989.
Wayne A. Cornelius, Judith Gentleman and Peter H. Smith, Mexico's Alternative Political Futures (San Diego: USCD Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies) 1989.
Camp, Roderic, Politics in Mexico. New York, Oxford University Press, 1993.
Oppenheimer, Andres, Bordering on Chaos: Guerrillas, Stockbrokers, Politicians, and Mexico’s Road to Prosperity. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1996.
Social movements - gender, class & ethnicity
Octavio Paz, "Introduction," Elena Poniatowska, Massacre in Mexico, (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1992), pp. vvi-xvii, 3-4*
Aurora Camacho de Schmidt and Arthur Schmidt, "Foreword," Elena Poniatowska, Nothing, Nobody: The Voices of the Mexico City Earthquake, (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995), pp. ix-xxix and pp. 142-149, 182-183*
Tom Barry, Mexico: A Country Guide (Albuquerque: Inter-Hemispheric Resource Center, 1992), "Popular Organizing," pp. 193-203*
Vivienne Bennett, The Politics of Water: Urban Protest, Gender and Power in Monterrey, Mexico, (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995), pp. 106-127*
Lynn Stephen, "Democracy for Whom? Women’s Grassroots Political Activism in the 1990s, Mexico City and Chiapas," in Gerardo Otero, ed., Neo-liberalism Revisited: Economic Restructuring and Mexico’s Political Future, (Boulder: Westview, 1996), pp. 167-186*
Mexican politics comes to the U.S.
Denise Dresser, "Exporting Conflict: Transboundary Consequences of Mexican Politics," in Abraham Lowenthal and Katrina Burgess, eds., The California-Mexico Connection, (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1993), pp. 82-112*
1994 - The year of living dangerously: The Chiapas rebellion
Carlos Fuentes, A New Time for Mexico, (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1996), pp. 86-93*
Neil Harvey, "Rebellion in Chiapas: Rural Reforms and Popular Struggle," Third World Quarterly, 16(1), 1995, pp. 38-70*
Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee, Zapatista Army of National Liberation, "Who are the Zapatistas?" January 6, 1994*
The difficult democratization: Continuity from above with change from below
Jonathan Fox and Luis Hernández, "Lessons from the Mexican Elections," Dissent, Winter, 1995 (pp. 29-33)*
Bill Weinberg, "The Golf War of Tepoztlan: Ecology and Popular Defense in the Heartland of Zapata," Native Americas, 13(3), Fall, 1996, pp. 33-42*
Andrew Reding, "The Next Mexican Revolution," World Policy Journal, 13(3), Fall, 1996
The peso crisis casts its shadow
Jorge Castaneda, "Mexico’s Circle of Misery," Foreign Affairs, 75(4), July/August, 1996
Recommended:
Aspe Armella, Pedro, El Camino Mexicano de la Transformaci\n Econ\mica. MJxico: Fondo de Cultura Econ\mica, 1993.
Barry, Tom, et. al., The Great Divide, The Challenge of U.S.-Mexico Relations in the 1990's. New York, Grove Press, 1994.
Batres, Ricardo, et. al., Columbia Journal of World Business, Vol. XXVI, No. II, 1991.
Browne, Harry, and Sims, Beth, Runaway America: U.S. Jobs and Factories on the Move. Albuquerque: Resource Center Press, 1993.
Burgess, Katrina, and Lowenthal, Abraham F., The California-Mexico Connection. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1993.
Business History Review, Vol. 65, No. 4, Winter 1991.
Calva, Jose Luis, Probable Efectos de un Tratado de Libre Comercio en el Campo Mexicano. MJxico, D.F.: Fontamara, 1994.
Castaneda, Jorge G., The Mexican Shock: Its Meaning for the U.S.. New York: The New Press, 1995.
Castaneda, Jorge G., Utopia Unarmed: The Latin American Left After the Cold War. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.
Cornelius, Wayne A., Craig, Ann L., and Fox, Jonathan, Transforming State-Society Relations in Mexico: The National Solidarity Strategy. UCSD, Center for Mexican Studies, 1994.
Culbertson, John M., The Dangers of "Free Trade". Madison, WI: 21st Century Press, 1985.
Cypher, James H., State and Capital in Mexico: Development Policy Since 1940. Boulder, Westview Press, 1990.
Dubb, Stephen George, The Logics of Resistance: Globalization and Telephone Unionism in Mexico and British Columbia, Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Dissertation Services, 1996.
Foreign Affairs, Vol. 75, No. IV, July/August 1996.
Foreign Policy, No. 102, Spring 1996.
Gonzalez de la Rocha, Mercedes, and Escobar, Latapi, AugustRn, Social Responses to Mexico=s Economic Crisis of the 1980's. UCSD, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, 1991.
Grayson, George W., The North American Free Trade Agreement: The Regional Community and the New World Order. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1995.
Haufbauer, Gary Clyde, and Schott, Jeffrey J., NAFTA : An Assessment. Washington D.C.: Institute for International Economics, 1993.
Jenkins, Barbara, The Paradox of Continual Production: The National Investment Policies of North America. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1992.
Kopinak, Kathryn, Desert Capitalism: Maquiladoras in North America’s Western Industrial Corridor. Tuscon, AZ: The University of Arizona Press, 1996.
La Botz, Dan, The Masks of Democracy: Labor Suppression in Mexico Today. Boston: South End Press, 1992.
Lustig, Nora, Mexico: The Remaking of an Economy. Washington D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1992.
McGaughey, William, A U.S.-Mexico-Canada Free-Trade Agreement. Minneapolis: Thistlerose Publications, 1992.
Mc Quaig, Linda, The Quick and the Dead: Brian Mulroney, Big Business and the Seduction of Canada. Toronto, Viking Penguin Books Ltd., 1991.
Middlebrook, Kevin J., Unions, Workers, and the State in Mexico. Center for U.S.-Mexico Studies, UCSD, 1991.
Morici, Peter, Making Free Trade Work: The Canada-U.S. Agreement. New York: Council on Foreign Relations, Inc., 1990.
National Center on Education and the Economy, America’s Choice: high skills or low wages!: The Report of the Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce. June 1990.
National Commission for Employment Policy, The Employment Effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement: Recommendations and Background studies. Special Report No. 33, October 1992.
North American Free Trade Agreement between the Government of the United States of America, the Government of Canada, and the United Mexican States. Vol. I and II, 1992.
Otero, George, Neo-Liberalism Revisited: Economic Restructuring and Mexico=s Political Future. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996.
Pastor, Robert A., and CastaZeda, Limits to Friendship: The United States and Mexico. New York: Vintage Books, 1988.
Perot, Ross, Save Your Job, Save Your Country: Why NAFTA must be Stopped C Now! New York: Hyperion, 1993.
Prestowitz, Clyde V., and Cohen, Robert B., The New North American Order: A Win-Win Strategy for U.S.-Mexico Trade. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 1991.
Randall, Laura, Reforming Mexico=s Agrarian Reform. Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1996.
"Special NAFTA Issue", Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol 25, No. 4, Xochimilco, Mexico: Autonomous Metropolitan University, December 1993
RodriguJz, Victoria E., and Ward, Peter M., Opposition Government in Mexico. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1995.
Sheahan, John, Conflict and Change in Mexican Economic Strategy: Implications for Mexico and for Latin America. University of California, San Diego, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, 1991.
Sinclair, Jim, Crossing the Line: Canada and Free Trade with Mexico. Oshawa, Ontario: The Alger Press, 1992.
Sklair, Leslie, Assembling for Development: The Maquila Industry in Mexico and the United States. Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, UCSD, 1993.
Universidad Nacional Aut\noma De MJxico, Current Research, 1994-1995. MJxico, 1995.
U.S. Congress, Congressional Budget Office, AA Budgetary and Economic Analysis of the North American Free Trade Agreement, July 1993.
Weintraub, Sidney, NAFTA at Three: A Progress Report. Washington DC: Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1997.
Weintraub, Sidney, A Marriage of Convenience: Relations Between Mexico and the United States. New York, Oxford University Press, 1990.
Weintraub, Sidney, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Free Trade in the Western Hemisphere. In Lambert, Richard D., and Heston, Alan W. (eds.) Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications Inc., 1993.
Wilson, Patricia A., Exports and Local Development: Mexico’s New Maquiladoras. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1992.
Week 9: Boundaries and Power Gaps - Nationalism, Ethnicity and Gender
Required:
Maria Patricia Fernandez Kelly and Anna Garcia, "Informalization at the Core: Hispanic Women, Homework and the Advanced Capitalist State," in A. Portes, M. Castells and L. Benton (eds.) The Informal Economy: Studies in Advanced and Less Developed Countries (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press) 1989.
Paule Cruz Takash and Joaquin Avila, "Latino Political Participation in Rural and Urban California," Working Paper # 8 (Davis: California Center for Rural Studies) 1990.
Elizabeth Martinez and Ed McCaughan, "Chicanas and Mexicanas within a Transnational Working Class," in Adelaida del Castillo (ed.) Between Borders: Essays on Mexicana/Chicana History (Encino, Ca.: Floricanto Press) 1990: pp 31-60.
David Ayon, "Mexican-Chicano Relations," in R. Hinojosa (ed.) Continental Integration (London: Verso), forthcoming 1992.
Fuentes, Carlos, "The Discovery of Mexico", in R. Simonson and S. Walker (eds.), Multicultural Literacy: Opening the American Mind. Greywolf Press, 1988.
Gomez-Pena, Guillermo, "Documented/Undocumented" in R. Simonson and S. Walker (eds.), Multicultural Literacy: Opening the American Mind. Greywolf Press, 1988.
Recommended:
Barrera, Mario, Beyond Aztlan
Garcia, F. Chris (ed.), Latinos in the Political System. South Bend: Norte Dame, 1988.
Barrera, Mario, Beyond Aztlan: Ethnic Autonomy in Comparative Perspective. London: Notre Dame Press,1988, pp. 157-176.
Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands, la Frontera (San Francisco: Spinster) 1987.
Gomez-Quinones, Juan, "Notes on an Interpretation of the Relations between the Mexican Community in the United States and Mexico," in C. Vasquez and M. Garcia y Griego (eds.), Mexican-U.S. Relations: Conflict and Convergence. Los Angeles: UCLA, 1983.
De la Torre, Adela and Pesquera, Beatriz, Building with our Hands: New Directions in Chicana Studies. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.
Felipe Herrera, Juan, Mayan Drifter: Chicano Poet in the Lowlands of America. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997.
Week 10: US-Mexico in Comparative Perspective: Alternative Futures for North America
Required:
Brandt Commission, Global Crisis, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1984, Introduction.
Adam Przeworski, Democracy and the Market
Hinojosa-Ojeda, Raul, Jeffery Lewis, and Sherman Robinson. "Regional Integration Options for Central America and the Caribbean After NAFTA." Journal of North American Economics and Finance. Vol . 6, No. 2, 1995: 121-148.
Hinojosa-Ojeda, Raul, Jeffery Lewis, and Sherman Robinson. "Simon Bolivar Rides Again? Pathways Towards Regional Integration between NAFTA, MERCOSUR, and the Greater Andean Region." Journal of Integration and Trade. Vol . 1, No. 1, (March) 1997:
Recommended Background and Related Materials:
McCleery, R., W. James, J. Whalley, W.E. Steinmueller, R. Hinojosa Ojeda and M. Plummer, "NAFTA and Its Effect on and Other Developing Regions: U.S. Trade Policy and Asia's Concerns in a Global Context," in Koichi Ohno (ed.), Regional Integration and Its Impact on Developing Countries. (Tokyo) Institute of Developing Economies. 1993: 303-412.
Hinojosa, R., Robinson, S., and Teshe, J. "Hungary, Austria, and the European Community: A CGE Model of Economic Reform and Integration," in Modeling Economy-Wide Reforms. Paris: Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Development Centre. 1994: 267-296.
Hinojosa-Ojeda, Raul, Jeffery Lewis, and Sherman Robinson. "Convergence and Divergence between NAFTA, Chile, and MERCOSUR" in book edited by Joao Paulo Dos Reis Velloso, Instituto Nacional de Altos Estudos, Brazil, (in Portuguese), 1995.
Hinojosa-Ojeda, Raul. "NAFTA’s Next Steps: Hemispheric and Global Implications." In Regionalism and its Place in the Multilateral Trading System. Paris: OECD, 1996.
Hinojosa-Ojeda, Raul, Jeffrey Lewis, and Sherman Robinson. "Regional Integration Options Central America, and the Caribbean," in Trade Liberalization in the Western Hemisphere, Inter American Development Bank/Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean Project on Hemispheric Trade Liberalization, 1996.
Haufbauer, Gary Clyde, and Schott, Jeffrey J., Western Hemisphere Economic Integration. Washington D.C.: Institute for International Economics, 1994.
Evans, P., "Class, State and Dependence in East Asia: Lessons for Latin Americanists," in F.C. Deyo, The Political Economy of the New Asian Industrialism, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1987, pp. 203-226.
OECD Economic Survey of Spain: 1990/1991 (Paris: OECD) 1991: chapters I and IV.
Gary Gereffi and Donald Wyman, "Determinants of Development Strategies in Latin America and East Asia", Pacific Focus, vol. II, no. 1 (Spring 1987), pp. 5-33.
Lowenthal, Abraham, "Rethinking U.S. Interests in the Western Hemisphere," in Partners in Conflict: The United States and Latin America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 1987, p. 25-48.
Bhagwati, J. and J. Gerard Ruggie (eds.), Power, Passions and Purpose: Prospects for North-South Negotiations. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1984.
Bird, Graham, and Helwege, Ann, Latin America’s Economic Future. London: Academic Press, 1994.
Brunner, Jose Joaquin, and Puryear Jeffrey M., Education, Equity, and Economic Competitiveness in the Americas: An Inter-American Dialogue Project. Vol. I: Key Issues, Interamerican Educational series, 1995.
Brunner, Jose Joaquin, and Puryear Jeffrey M., Educacion, Equidad y Competitvidad Economica en las Americas: Un Preyecto del Dialogo Interamericano. Volumen II: Interamer Educational Series, 1995.
Mead, James, Mortal Splendor: The American Empire in Transition. New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1987.
Reich, Robert B., The Work of Nations: Preparing Ourselves for 21st Century Capitalism. New York: Vantage Books, 1992.
Susan Walsh Sanderson and Robert Hayes, "Mexico - Opening Ahead of Eastern Europe," Harvard Business Review (September-October) 1990.
Debt Crisis Network, From Debt to Development: Alternatives to the International Debt Crisis. Washington: Institute for Policy Studies, 1985.
Lowenthal, Abraham, "Rethinking U.S. Interests in the Western Hemisphere," in Partners in Conflict: The United States and Latin America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 1987, p. 25-48.
Krasner, S., "Power Asymmetries and U.S.-Mexico Relations," in R. Hinojosa and C. Reynolds (eds.) The Political-Economy of U.S. Latin American Interdependence, forthcoming 1989.
Mead, James, Mortal Splendor: The American Empire in Transition. New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1987.
Bhagwati, J. and J. Gerard Ruggie (eds.), Power, Passions and Purpose: Prospects for North-South Negotiations. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1984.
Kolko, Joyce, Restructuring the World Economy. New York: Pantheon, 1988.
Carnoy, Martin and D. Shearer, Economic Democracy. New York: Sharpe, 1984.
SzJkely, Gabriel, Manufacturing Across Borders and Oceans: Japan, the United States, and Mexico. University of California, San Diego, Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, 1991.
Gereffi, Gary, Wyman, Donald L., Manufacturing Miracles: Paths of Industrialization in Latin America and East Asia. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990.
Hartlyn, Jonathan, and Morley, Samuel A., Latin American Political Economy: Financial Crisis and Political Change. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1986.
Kolko, Joyce, Restructuring the World Economy. New York: Pantheon, 1988.
Krugman, Paul, Development, Geography, and Economic Theory. Cambridge MA: The MIT Press, 1995.
Greider, William, One World, Ready or Not: The Logic of Global Capitalism. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997.