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LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES (L45) (Dept. Info)

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Historical Methods: Latin American History

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COOKING UP HISTORY: FOOD, DOMESTICITY AND GENDER: This seminar introduces students to the historian's craft through an in-depth deconstruction of cookbooks as primary sources that register the transformation of traditions and everyday life rarely found in traditional historical sources. The home as the location where class, gender, consumerism, nationalism, and technology interact on a daily basis provides a unique window into how individuals experience, define, interpret and make sense of their conditions of existence. Transformations in food consumption, nutrition patterns and cooking techniques, as well as the gendering of the kitchen space can be accessed through these sources. Recipes are loaded with meaning particular to their time and place. At the same time they provide us with ideas that have been through comments, references and historical capsules. As cultural texts they provide us with a better understanding of the central role of food and its preparation/presentation/consumption, in the creation of social class. Modern, Latin America. PREREQUISITE: NONE. This course is crosslisted with L45 301L, L77 301L and L97 301L.

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Survey of Mexican Cultures

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This course provides an interdisciplinary introduction to the study of Mexico, with a particular focus on the 20th and the 21st century. The class will cover the main historical and cultural processes of Mexico in this period: The Mexican Revolution; the consolidation of a one-party political system; the construction of Mexican national identity and the arrival of neoliberalism. The course also focuses on the main aspects of Mexico's relationship to the United States: the Free Trade Agreement, the history of Mexican migration and the Drug War. From this framework, the course touches upon questions of race (particularly the politics of racial mixture), modernization, construction of social identities and the unique nature of governance in Mexico, due to the single-party regime. It also touches on Mexico's specificities and particularities due to the uniqueness of situation as the southern neighbor of the United States. PreReq. None.

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The Incas and Their Ancestors: The Archaeology of the Ancient Andes

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From the hyper-arid desert of the Pacific Coast to the high-mountain plateaus of the Andes more than 12,000 feet above sea level to the lush forested Amazonian lowlands, Western South America presents one of the most diverse natural and cultural environments in the world and one of the few places where social complexity first developed. Beginning with the earliest human occupations in the region more than 12,000 years ago, this course examines how domestication, urbanization, the rise of early states, and major technological inventions changed life in the Andes from small village societies to the largest territorial polity of the Americas - the Inca Empire. Students will become familiar with the major debates in the field of Andean archaeology. Together, we will examine archaeological evidence (architecture, art, ceramics, metals, textiles, plant and animal remains, etc.) from context of everyday life (households, food production, craft production) to the rituals and ceremonies (offerings, tombs) that took place in domestic and public spaces. We will also touch on the role of Andean archaeology in the context of national politics and heritage sustainability.

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Anarchism: History, Theory, and Praxis

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Film and Revolution in Latin America

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This class is a Writing Intensive course focused on the study of the way in which four landmark Latin American revolutions (The Independence Wars, The Mexican Revolution, The Cuban Revolution and The Bolivarian Revolution) are represented in cinema. Each one of these revolutions will constitute a unit of study, and students will be expected to work with historical texts, films and works of film theory and criticism for each one of them. The course will engage in subjects such as the difference between fiction and nonfiction films when representing history; the politics that underlie specific representations; the way in which cinema questions and revises ideas developed by historians; and the uses of film in creating popular views of history in Latin America. Students will develop a research project comparing two revolutionary processes over the semester. Prereq. L45 165D (Latin America: Nation, Ethnicity and Social Conflict) for LAS majors. Otherwise none.

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L53 3824 L97 3824

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Blackness in Brazil

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Brazil is the country with the largest population of people of African descent outside of the African continent. However, with its history of race mixture under colonialism and slavery, many have imagined Brazil as a racial paradise such that race minimally influences one's social, political, or economic quality of life. The main focus of this course will be to understand from an interdisciplinary approach, first, the historical and sociocultural conditions of the African diaspora in Brazil. Second, we will focus on how national ideologies of racial mixture employ a rhetoric of inclusion that incorporates selective aspects of black culture into Brazilian national identity while excluding black people from the protections and pleasures of full citizenship. Beginning with the experiences of enslaved Africans, we will engage how Afro-Brazilians have developed ideas and spaces of freedom and belonging through social movements, religion, the arts, and resistance well into the black consciousness movements of the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In the course, we will collaboratively read, view, and listen to a variety of primary and secondary sources in order to analyze and write about blackness and the lives of black people in Brazil across history, intersecting, most predominantly, with the social structures of gender, sexuality, class, and religion.

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For AFAS majors, this course counts as Area Requirement 4.

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Introduction to Latin American Philosophy - Contemporary Topics

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The main goal of this course is to familiarize students with a distinct philosophical corpus closely linked to the postcolonial conditions of cultural production in the Latin American region. The selected works will expose the connections between as socio- political reflection and intellectual development, and the characteristics of "situated knowledge" related to questions of coloniality, interculturality, and decolonization. Different approaches to transcendental issues, to questions of temporality, subjectivity and Being, will be developed vis a vis diverse conceptions of historicity, positionality, power and resistance. Factors of race, gender, inequality and cultural diversity will be discussed as part of the introduction of issues such as indigeneity, miscegenation, creolization, archipelagic thought, and the like. Some of the authors to be studies in the course are: Leopoldo Zea, Enrique Dussel, Santiago Castro Gomez, Nelson Maldonado Torres, Aime Cesaire, Frantz Fanon, Walter Mignolo, Anibal Quijano, Bolivar Echeverria, Sylvia Wynter, Rita Segato, Maria Lugones, et al.

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Gender and Modernity in Latin America

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The objectives of this course are twofold. The first goal is to provide students with critical and theoretical foundations for the study of gender issues in modern Latin America, through the analysis of conceptual (social, philosophical and political) texts. This part of the course entails the study of historical contexts that connect the emergence of Latin American societies to questions of imperial domination, coloniality, and modernization. The second goal of the course is to illustrate the conceptualization and the evolution of gender issues through the analysis of some representative figures and cultural processes that show differential articulation of subjects in the public sphere depending on gender. The study of the interconnections between femininity/masculinity, hetero/homosexuality and racial differences will be traced from colonial times to the present. Some instances of this critical journey will focus on topics such as gender in the new Latin American republics, gender and modernization, identity politics, human rights and intersectionality. Required readings will be critical and theoretical pieces plus some fictional works. Particular cases will be approached through analysis of political figures (Eva Peron), women artists (Frida Khalo, Ana Mendieta), literary works (Bad Girls, novel by Camila Sosa Villada; Fever Dreams by Smanta Schweblin) and films (El cuarto de Leo (2009), and Fever Dreams (2021).

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L45 557 L77 457 L97 457

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