Requirements: Students in the honors section are required to read one additional article each week and to come to the honors section prepared to discuss it.

Grading: Grading will be based entirely on class discussion.

Link to Honors Section in Canvas

READINGS

Week 1

• Charles Wagley, "Plantation America: a Culture Sphere,"in Vera Rubin, ed., Caribbean Studies: a Symposium (Washington: University of Washington Press, 1960), pp. 3-13.

Week 2

• Dara Orenstein, "Void for Vagueness: Mexicans and the Collapse of Miscegenation Law in California," Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 74, No. 3 (August 2005), pp. 367-408.

Week 3

• McCormick, Jennifer; Ayala, César J ."Felícita 'La Prieta' Méndez (1916-1998) and the end of Latino School Segregation in California," Centro Journal, vol. XIX, númFINAL. 2, 2007, pp. 13-35

Week 4

• Samuel Farber, "Racism Against Black Cubans: an Opression that Dared not Speak its Name ," pp. 158-183 of Cuba After the Revolution of 1959: a Critical Assessment (Chicago: Haymarket books, 2011).

Week 5

• NO READING

Week 6

• Mara Loveman, "The U.S. Census and the Contested Rules of Racial Classification in Early Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico," Caribbean Studies, Vol. 35, No. 2, (Jul. - Dec., 2007), pp. 78-113.

Week 7

• Mara Loveman and Jerónimo O. Muñiz, "How Puerto Rico Became White: Boundary Dynamics and Intercensus Racial Reclassification," American Sociological Review, Vol. 72, No. 6 (Dec., 2007), pp. 915-939

Week 8

Week 9

• Hansing, Katrin and Bert Hoffmann, "Cuba's New Social Structure: Assessing the Re-Stratification of Cuban Society 60 years after Revolution." GIGA Working Papers 315.
  https://www.giga-hamburg.de/de/publication/cubas-new-social-structure-assessing-the-restratification-
  of-cuban-society-60-years, accessed 2-27-2022. | Local Copy

Week 10

• Ayala, César J. and Joel Herrera. "The Paradox of Black Incomes in Colonial Puerto Rico, 1898-1930." In progress.