- The purpose of this assignment is to critically reflect on Week 1 topic: An Introduction to the Central American People and Centro America.
Response 1: Karina A. Alvarado, Alicia Ivonne Estrada, and Ester E. Hernandez Introduction Chapter
Discussion Question: What two questions from quiz #1 did you find the most interesting and why?
- Response must be minimum 5-7 sentences.
Response 2: Aviva Chomsky Chapter 1
Discussion Question: What two key terms from true/false #1 assignment did you find the most interesting and why?
- Response must be minimum 5-7 sentences.
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Quiz #1 Questions (Karina A. Alvarado, Alicia Ivonne Estrada, and Ester E. Hernandez Introduction Chapter)
- What did the authors say about the Central American northern triangle, and the Reagan Doctrine?
- What did the authors say about La Matanza (The Salvadoran Slaughter), and U.S military funding?
- What did the authors say about the Silent Holocaust, and Bill Clinton?
- What did the authors say about Hurricane Mitch, and Manuel Zelaya?
- What did the authors say about the TPS program 1998, and Operation Just Cause?
- What did the authors say about Black Panamanian immigrants, and the lost decade?
- Identify the 2006 Central American Free Trade agreement?
- Identify the 2006 May Day March, and the 2010 U.S Census.
- Identify the Los Angeles gateway, and Little Central America.
- Identify the author’s discourse (argument) of not hyphenating Central American national identities?
- Identify California’s cluster, and Central American Maya scholarship?
- What did Arturo Arias theorize about identity?
- What is Departamento 15?
- Identify Ana Patricia’s Salvadorenidades.
- Identify the author’s discourse (argument) of U.S Central American identity?
True/False #1 Assignment Key Terms (Aviva Chomsky Chapter 1)
- history matters
- Black legend
- settler colonialism
- Haiti
- neocolonial relationship
- Spanish colonizers
- Indian allies
- preconquest population
- Indian resistance
- Caribbean coast peoples
- strict hierarchical division
- popular memories
- Carolyn Forche
- Central Americans migrating
- U.S government records