TEXTS
The following books must be purchased and brought with you to Costa Rica. They have been ordered and are available at Recto/Verso Books, New Brunswick, NJ 08901. Their phone number is 732-247-2324.

Fanon, Frantz. 1967. Black Skin, White Masks. New York: Grove Press.

Lamming, George. 1991 [1970]. In the Castle of My Skin. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.

Marshal, Paule. 1992 [1969]. The Chosen Place, The Timeless People. New York: Vintage Contemporaries.

Purcell, Trevor W. 1993. Banana Fallout: Class, Color, and Culture Among West Indians in Costa Rica. Los Angeles: Center for Afro-American Studies Publications, University of California.

An additional book is needed but must be purchased in San Jose, Costa Rica:

Palmer, Paula. What Happen: A Folk-History of Costa Rica·s Talmanca Coast.

The rest of the readings are available in a packet which must be purchased and brought to Costa Rica. The packet is available at Pequod Copy Center at 119 Somerset Street in New Brunswick. Their phone number is 732-214-8787.

EXPECTATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Your final grade for the 6 credit course will be based on the following:

Fulfillment of responsibilities at the St. Marks School, plus
Class participation 15%
Class presentation 15%
Journal 30%
Final paper 40%

Seminar Grade:

Attendance and Participation: This course will be run as a seminar and its success is consequently dependent upon your level of commitment and preparedness. Therefore, you are required to attend each seminar meeting and come prepared to analytically discuss the readings and relate them to your experiences in Limon.

Discussion Leading: Each class, one or more class members will help lead class discussion by preparing discussion questions for the group as well as facilitating the class discussion. (see "Guidelines for Discussion Leading" sheet for more detail on my expectations). A sign up sheet will be passed around during our first class meeting. You will be graded on your presentation, the outline that you hand in, materials that you hand out to the class, and your meeting with me at least two days before you are the discussion leader.

Journals: One of the central requirements of the seminar is that you keep a reading and teaching journal. You should make entries as often as you can, but at a minimum, twice a week. Each week you should have two types of entries. First, you should thoughtfully reflect on each of the assigned readings for the week. Second, you should reflect on what is happening in your work at the school. See "Guidelines for Journal Writing" sheet for more details.

Final Paper: The assignment for your final paper will be discussed in detail in class. The paper is due on August 3rd. You may either write a traditional academic essay or an essay of informed reflection, in which you draw both on the texts we read and on your experiences and research in Limon. The paper is a major essay and should be approximately 10-15 typed, double-space pages in length.

A note about your grade in this course: Please note that although your teaching at the St. Mark's school is not graded, you are required to work there at least two hours per day, five days per week. Students who do not fulfill this requirement will not pass the course.

COURSE SCHEDULE

May 24: Meet at airport in Costa Rica. Group orientation and dinner.
May 25: Tour San Jose
May 26: Travel to Limon.

SECTION 1: COSTA RICA IN CONTEXT
PART A: Costa Rica / Central America

Wednesday, May 27: Welcome to St. Mark·s School. Observation period at school begins.
Assigned Reading:
Skidmore, Thomas E., and Peter H. Smith. 1997. "Chapter Ten – Central America: Colonialism, Dictatorship, and Revolution." In Modern Latin America, 4th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 321-358.
Barry, Tom. 1987. "Chapters 2, 3, 4 and pp. 148-153." In Roots of Rebellion: Land & Hunger in Central America. Boston: South End Press, pp. 21-90 & 148-153.
Gonzalez-Vega, Claudio, and Victor Hugo Cespedes. 1993. "Costa Rica: Basic Information." In The Political Economy of Poverty, Equity, and Growth: Costa Rica and Uruguay, ed. Simon Rottenberg. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 15-27.

PART B: Costa Rica: Historical Overview

Friday, May 29: Observation period at school ends.
Assigned Reading:
The Costa Rica Reader. 1989. Ed. Marc Edelman and Joanne Kenen. New York: Grove Weidenfeld. Pp. ix; xv-28; 83-111; 161-169.
Calabrese, Cora Ferro, and Ana Maria Quiros Rojas. 1997."Women in Colonial Costa Rica: A Significant Presence." In The Costa Rican Women's Movement: A Reader, ed. Ilse Abshagen Leitinger. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, pp. 39-51.
Anonymous. 1997. "Central America." Economist, January 11, 42-43. This article says "Citation 70" at the top.
Clinton, William J. 1997."Remarks at the Welcoming Ceremony at the Central American Summit in San Jose, Costa Rica." Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents 33(19, May 12): 673-674. This article says "Citation 33" at the top.

SECTION 11: THEORIZING IDENTITIES IN LIMON
PART A: Cultural Theory

Tuesday, June 2:
Assigned Reading:
Hall, Stuart. 1994. "Cultural Identity and Diaspora." In Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader, ed. Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman. New York: Columbia University Press, 392-403.
Featherstone, Mike. 1990. "Global Culture: An Introduction." In Global Culture, ed. Mike Featherstone. London: Sage, 1-13.

PART B: Intersections of Race, Culture and Class

Thursday, June 4: Assigned Reading:
Purcell, Trevor W. 1993. Banana Fallout: Class, Color, and Culture Among West Indians in Costa Rica. Los Angeles: Center for Afro-American Studies Publications, University of California. [BOOK]
June 9: Assigned Reading:
Palmer, Paula. What Happen: A Folk-History of Costa Rica's Talmanca Coast. [BOOK]
June 11: Assigned Reading:
Fanon, Frantz. 1967. Black Skin, White Masks. New York: Grove Press. [BOOK]
Brewer, Rose M. "Theorizing Race, Class and Gender: The New Scholarship of Black Feminist Intellectuals and Black Women·s Labor." In Theorizing Black Feminisms: The Visionary Pragmatism of Black Women, edited by Stanlie M. James and Abena P.A. Busia, 13-30. New York, Routledge, 1993.
June 16: Assigned Reading:
Fanon, Frantz. 1967. Black Skin, White Masks. New York: Grove Press. [BOOK]

PART C: Theorizing the Intersections of Gender, Race, Class in Feminist Organizing
June 18: Assigned Reading:
Fajardo, Yadira Calvo. 1997. "Different Times, Women, Visions: The Deep Roots of Costa Rican Feminism." In The Costa Rican Women's Movement: A Reader, ed. Ilse Abshage
Leitinger. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, pp. 5-12.
Lopez-Casas, Eugenia. 1997. "Women Heads of Household in Costa Rica's Limon Province: The Effects of Class Modified by Race and Gender." In The Costa Rican Women's Movement: A Reader, ed. Ilse Abshagen Leitinger. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, pp. 141-146.

PART D: Race, Identity, Nation
June 20-21: Trip to Cahuita Assigned Reading
Bourgois, Philippe 1. 1989. Ethnicity at Work: Divided Labor on a Central American Banana Plantation. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, pp. xi-110.
June 23: Assigned Reading:
Lamming, George. 1991 [19701. In the Castle of My Skin. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. [BOOK]

PART E: The Politics of Religion, Race and Gender
June 25: Assigned Reading:
Harpelle, Ronald N. 1994. "Ethnicity, Religion and Repression: The Denial of African Heritage in Costa Rica." Canadian Journal of History XXIX (l, April): 95-112.
Martin, David. 1990. Tongues of Fire: The Explosion of Protestantism in Latin America: Basil Blackwell, pp. 185-202.

PART F: The "North· in the "South·: Identity and Location
June 30: Assigned Reading:
Marshal, Paule. 1992 [19691. The Chosen Place, The Timeless People. New York: Vintage Contemporaries. [BOOK]

SECTION III: ECOTOURISM
July 1-3: Trip to Tortuguero
Assigned Reading:
Place, Susan. 1995. "Ecotourism for Sustainable Development: Oxymoron or Plausible Strategy?" GeoJournal 35(2): 161-173.
Norris, Ruth. 1994. "Ecotourism in the National Parks of Latin America." National Parks 68(1-2, January): 32-37. This article says "Citation 219" at the top.
July 4: Travel to San Jose
July 5: Flight back to U.S. End of Program
August 3: Final papers due