Topics: Hot Latina/os? Race, Gender, and Sexualities in Latin America

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This course will explore how different ideas about race, ethnicity, and gender have greatly influenced Latin American politics, culture, and daily life from the Colonial era to the present. In this class we will study the ways in which race and ethnicity have been defined in Latin American studies, and also how these categories have intersected with ideologies and practices in different countries of the region, and also with other categories of analysis, mainly gender, sexuality, and class. Among the themes we will explore are: scientific racism, nationalism and xenophobia, interracial relationships, social movements, and cultural representations of women and men.