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

Course unit(s): 1
Meets GAR: Meets general academic requirement DE, HU (and W when offered as 376) and satisfies the IL requirement.
This course examines race, ethnicity, and gender within the context of the African Diaspora, Indo-American populations, European Colonialism, and the resulting cultural hybridity of Latin America and the Caribbean. Major themes include resistance to colonial constructions of racial, ethnic, and gendered hierarchies; forms of labor (slave, forced, and coerced) and their relationship to these categories; immigration and eugenics; and state discourses about race, ethnicity and gender in Modern and Revolutionary Latin America and the Caribbean.