Intro Latin American Studies

Catalog description

This course is divided into three periods: the Pre-Columbian and the Encounter, the Colonial period and the post-independence period historical. Its focus is on the political, cultural and social formations, the impact of the encounter between Europeans and the indigenous peoples, the colonial, post independence and contemporary periods. Some of the themes of our inquiry are: indigenous culture, conquest and colonialism, nationalism, cultural expressions, hierarchies of class and caste, social movements, religions, migration, cultural formations, globalization and transnationalism, and race and ethnicity.