American Global Power from Empire to Superpower

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 22.02.05

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction
  2. School Demography
  3. Content Matter Discussion
  4. Classroom Strategies
  5. Classroom Activities
  6. Appendix on Implementing District Standards
  7. Notes

American Imperialism in Latin America: Territory Expansion, Trade, and Immigration

Stephen Straus

Published September 2022

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Notes

1 Justin Aher Chacón, The Border Crossed Us: The Case for Opening the US-Mexico Border, 15.

2 Meg Medina, Voces Sin Fronters: Our Stories, Our Truth, 226-232.

3 Rebecca Cammisa, Which Way Home.

4 Medina, 294.

5 Darío Salinas Figueredo, “Democratic Governability in Latin America: Limits and Possibilities in the Context of Neoliberal Domination,” 97, 101.

6 Kristin Hoganson, American Empire at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: A Brief History with Documents, 2.

7 Daniel Immerwahr,  How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States, 7.

8 Amy Greenberg, Manifest Destiny and American Territorial Expansion: A Brief History With Documents, 10-15.

9 Laura Gómez, Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race, 1-2, 18-20.

10 Immerwahr, 77.

11 Greenberg, 29.

12 Donna Gabaccia, Foreign Relations: American Immigration in Global Perspective, 5-6, 93, 183-184; Gómez, 4.

13 Gómez, 1-2, 18-20.

14 Gómez, 117.

15 Chacón, 30-31.

16 Theodore Roosevelt, “Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine, 1904.”

17 Gabaccia, 89; Immerwahr, 114.

18 Immerwahr, 281-282.

19 Chacón, 24-25.

20 Gabaccia, 134-135, 138.

21 Gabaccia, 141-143.

22 Chacón, 69-71.

23 González, 137-138.

24 Chacón, 31-32; Immerwahr, 257-258.

25 Chacón, 33.

26 Gabaccia,173.

27 Daniel Sargent, “Neoliberalism as a Form of US Power,” 2.

28 José Bell Lara and Delia Luisa López, “The Harvest of Neoliberalism in Latin America,” 18.

29 Darío, 101.

30 Chacón, 178-179, 185.

31 Aviva Chomsky, Central America's Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration, 69-70.

32 Chacón, 2-3, 60.

33 Gabaccia, 191.

34 Chacón, 113-116.

35 Gabaccia, 206, 224.

36 Chacón, 193.

37 Gabaccia, 207-208.

38 Chacón, 193.

39 Don Clark, “Adjustment Problems in Developing Countries and the U.S.-Central America-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement,” 1-4.

40 Chomsky, 197-198.

41 Julia Johnson, “Towards a New Generation in Central America Trade: Proposals for Modernizing CAFTA-DR,” 105, 122.

42 Bell and López, 22-23.

43 Chacón, 33.

44 Chacón, 7; “Distribution of Household Wealth in the U.S. since 1989.”

45 Gabaccia, 208.

46 Chacón, 195.

47 Chacón, 196, 203, 216-221.

48 Uríel Garcia, “Supreme Court rules Biden administration can end ‘remain in Mexico’ policy, sending case back to a Texas court.”

49 Chacón, 142-143.

50 Chacón, 172-174.

51 Gabaccia, 5-6, 93.

52 “Facts on U.S. immigrants, 2018.”; Campbell Gibson and Kay Jung, “Historical Census Statistics on the Foreign-Born Population of the United States: 1850 to 2000.”

53 Chacón, 27, 130; Chomsky, 219; Gómez, 151.; US Census Bureau. "2020 Census Illuminates Racial and Ethnic Composition of the Country."; Juan González, Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America, 129.

54 Gabaccia, 216.

55 Sam Wineburg, Why Learn History (When It's Already on Your Phone), 121.

56 Imerwahr, 8-9.

57 “Countries Of The World: El Salvador.”; Sybenga, Justin, “The Roots of Immigration from El Salvador and Current Policy Debates.”

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