HST 375, 376 - Race, Ethnicity & Gender in Latin America & the Caribbean

Course unit(s): 1
Meets GAR (students beginning prior to Fall 2024): Meets general academic requirement DE, HU and satisfies the IL requirement.
Meets requirement: W when offered as 376
This course examines race, ethnicity, and gender in pre-colonial, colonial, and contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean. Major themes include: resistance to European constructions of gender, race, and ethnicity; forms of labor and their relationships to these constructions; eugenics and scientific racism; and contemporary lived experiences in modern and revolutionary Latin America and the Caribbean.