Courses

Spring 2019 LACA Courses 

LACA 1503M Indigenous Resistance and Contradictions in Latin America (Taught by Cogut Visiting Professor, Irma Velasquez Nimatuj)

Monday, 3pm-5:30pm 

This seminar examines Indigenous People’s knowledge through community resistance and social movements to consider the multiple ways in which globalization impacts their lives. The objective of the course is to achieve an in-depth appreciation of Indigenous resistance through the experiences of specific countries of Latin America, and learning how those practices vary according to each region and circumstance. Across the semester, we will develop critical perspectives on diverse academic approaches. Students will read and analyze path breaking documents that marked several indigenous peoples’ histories and that at times come from voices historically marginalized.

*Taught in Spanish

LACA 1503N Race, Racism, and Indigeneity in the Americas (Taught by Sawyer Seminar Postdoctoral Fellow, Daina Sanchez) 

Tuesday, 4pm-6:30pm

This upper division seminar focuses on the history and cultures of Latin America’s indigenous peoples, emphasizing the impact of colonial rule, capitalism, and twentieth- and twenty- first century transformations on indigenous communities. Students will trace the effects European conquest and colonization through Latin American history ending with the displacement and emigration of indigenous people from their communities as result of social upheaval and neoliberal policies. Students will frame the experiences of indigenous immigrants through a transnational lens, analyzing how indigenous peoples navigate racial and social institutions in both the U.S. and Latin America.

LACA 1504F / HISP 1371 Latin American Authors Encounter the Sciences (Taught by Ph.D. Candidate in Hispanic Studies, Miguel Rosas Buendía)

Tuesday / Thursday, 9am-10:20am

This course offers a scientific and literary journey through diverse Latin American landscapes and societies. The readings are focused on the period 1830-1950. We will trace how natural, social, and medical sciences such as geography, psychiatric, ethnology, and archaeology, have discursively created territories and peoples as part of their own process of disciplinary characterization. We will then explore how writers embraced, discussed, and confronted these scientific discourses on topics such as nature, illness, progress, and indigenous people, among others.

*Taught in Spanish

LACA 1620B / HISP 1331D Latin America and the Caribbean: Challenges of the Global South (Taught by Visiting Associate Professor, Erica Durante)

Tuesday / Thursday, 2:30pm-3:50pm

This course will explore contemporary political, cultural, and ethnic challenges that characterize Latin America and the Caribbean. It will be structured around five themes (1. Hunger and poverty, 2. Slums and environmental degradation, 3. Political regimes and human rights, 4. Race and indigeneity, 5 Global market and cultural subalternity). The course will adopt an interdisciplinary perspective, based on a variety of cultural productions and scholarly contributions. The languages of instruction will be Spanish and English. Students will be expected to conduct their readings in Spanish. During class discussion they will be permitted to use the language of their choice.

*Taught in Spanish and English

Spring 2019 Cross-Listed/Related Courses in Latin American and Caribbean Studies

AFRI 1020C	The Afro-Luso-Brazilian Triangle Anani Dzidzienyo
AFRI 1150	Afro-Caribbean Philosophy Paget Henry
AMST 1700K	Race in the Americas: A Hemispheric Perspective Kevin Escudero
COLT 1440D	Antigones Elizabeth Gray
COLT 1815C	War, Language and the Arts Esther Whitfield
ENGL 0200D	Women of Color, Migration and Diaspora in America Lubabah Chowdhury
ETHN 1200D	Latinx Literature Ralph E. Rodriguez
ETHN 1750L	Latina Feminisms Leticia Alvarado
GNSS 1070	On Both Sides of the Lens: Latin American Women Filmmakers Jeremy Lehnen
GNSS 1961L	Postcolonial Horror: Political Specters in Non-Western Literature and Film Nicole Gervasio
HISP 0750B* *taught in Spanish	Latin American Diaspora in the U.S. Iris Montero
HISP 0750E* *taught in Spanish	Topics in Hispanic Culture and Civilization Mercedes Vaquero
HISP 0750Q* *taught in Spanish	Health, Illness and Medicine in Spanish American Literature and Film Jill Kuhnheim
HISP 0760* *taught in Spanish	Transatlantic Crossings: Readings in Hispanic Literatures Ian Russell
HISP 1370V* *taught in Spanish	Mujeres Malas Julio Ortega
HISP 1700B* *taught in Spanish	Rhythm and Silence: A Creative Writing Workshop Luis Miguel Estrada Orozco
HISP 2620O* *taught in Spanish	Authorship and Authoritarianism in Spain and Latin America Sarah L. Thomas
HISP1330X* *taught in Spanish	The Nature of Conquest: Scientific Literatures of the Americas Iris Montero
HIST 0234	Modern Latin America Daniel Rodriguez
HIST 0537A	Popular Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean Jennifer Lambe
HIST 1954J	The History of the Book in the Americas and Beyond Neil F. Safier
HIST 1967L	Politics and Culture Under the Brazilian Military Dictatorship, 1964-1985 James Green
HIST 1977I	Gender, Race and Medicine in the Americas Daniel Rodriguez
LATN 2080F	Latin in America Andrew Laird
LITR 1151U	Literatura Puertorriqueña: Cruce-Ficctiones y Contra-Poemas Andrew Colarusso
MUSC 1923	Music of the Andean Countries Christopher Joshua Tucker
PHP 0030	Health of Hispaniola Timothy Empkie
POBS 1800F	The Lusophone World and the Struggle for Modernity Onesimo Almeida
POBS 1501G	Remembering and Forgetting the Portuguese Colonial Empire Elsa Peralta
POBS 2500N	Got Rights? Human Rights and Contemporary Brazilian Literature Leila Lehnen
PLCY 1702M	The U.S. War on Drugs: From History to Policymaking and Beyond Aileen Teague
SOC 1281	Migration in the Americas David Lindstrom