Mexico, NAFTA and The Spanish Caribbean: History and Literature

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This course will use the perspectives of History and Hispanic Literature to examine the culture and literacy expression of the political, economic, and social history of the major Spanish speaking countries of the Caribbean Basin: Mexico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico. In particular, we will examine how throughout these countries; history, bonds of trade, culture and ethnicity have bound them into an interdependent whole. Moreover, we will examine how more recently, NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement) has pulled Mexico out of this regional nexus and closer to the USA and Canada. The course curriculum includes several films and guest speakers.