Caribbean History

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Exploration of the social, economic, political, intellectual, and cultural histories of the Caribbean. Major course topics include pre-Columbian indigeneity, colonization & imperialism, plantation slavery, abolition & emancipation, the Haitian and Cuban Revolutions, gender & migration, and decolonization & independence. The course emphasizes the diversity of the region and places the islands of the Caribbean within the wider context of a modern globalizing world.