Textbook Skidmore, Thomas E., Smith, Peter H., Green, James (2010) 8th Edition. Modern Latin America Oxford University Press, New York. ISBN-13: 9780199929238 *Question 1- What stereotypes have you encountered about Latin America or people from Latin America: Central America, South America and the Caribbean? How can you account for them? *Question 2- How and why has this region come to be known as “Latin American”? *Question 3- Does (or should) Latin America matter to the United States? Why and in what ways? *Question 4- How does Latin America differ from other areas of the “developing world”? In what ways is it similar? *Question 5- How and why have scholarly interpretations about Latin America changed over time?