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

1 course unit

This course examines Race and Ethnicity in Latin America and the Caribbean through the lenses of the African Diaspora and Amerindian populations from the Colonial Period to the present. Major themes include the classification of races and ethnicities during the colonial period; slavery and coerced labor; resistance to colonialism and debates over abolition; hybridity, mestizaje, and indigenismo; and discourses on race, ethnicity, gender, and class in Modern and Revolutionary Latin America and the Caribbean.
Meets general academic requirement DE and HU (and W when offered as 376).