Courses

Fall 2019 LACA Courses 

LACA 1503O Networked Movements: Mobilizations for Change in Latin America in the 21st Century (Taught by Cogut Visiting Professor Iria Puyosa)

Monday, 3pm - 5:30pm

Networked Movements examines the characteristics of social movements emerging in Latin America since 2007. These movements combine the non-violent occupation of public spaces and the intensive use of digital technologies for autonomous political communication. The course starts with foundations of networked social movement theories. Topics will include: the social appropriation of technological innovations; the construction of collective identity and the movement´s aesthetics; collective action for the occupation of public space; counter-public or counter-hegemonic political action; dynamics of social capital combining strong and weak ties; small-world structure of the movement networks; and mobilizing ideas by information cascades and network contagion.

LACA 1503P Consuming the Cold War in the Caribbean (Taught by Cogut Visiting Professor María Cabrera Arús)

Tuesday, 4pm - 6:30pm

How was the Cold War experienced in the Caribbean? How did refrigerators, automobiles, washing machines, stereos, and blue jeans become proxies of the world superpowers and mechanisms of impersonal rule in the hands of local regimes? How were Caribbean populations transformed by modernizing and developmentalist policies, and how did they resist the marketed allure of empires? Consuming the Cold War in the Caribbean answers these questions, exploring the politics of modern material and visual regimes in Cuba and the region during the post WWII era, addressing such regimes as mechanisms of soft power, impersonal rule, political critique, and resistance.

LACA 1503Q Politics of Indigeneity in Brazil (Taught by Cogut Visiting Professor Estevão Fernandes)

Wednesday, 3pm - 5:30pm

This course examines the politics of indigeneity in Brazil. First, it examines the relationship between native peoples and settlers, especially the Jesuits, Portuguese colonists, and the Portuguese Crown. Our purpose is to understand images of savagery and innocence as part of colonial imaginary in Brazilian’s imaginary about natives. Next, we will explore how indigenous peoples were understand by scientists and naturalists, and how these discussions are important in understanding notions about race in Brazil. Finally, we examine the relationships between native peoples and the State during the Republic, with a focus on contemporary issues, such as development, the environment, and social movements.

LACA 1900 Preparation for Honors and Capstone Projects on Latin American and Caribbean Topics (Taught by Visiting Associate Professor Erica Durante)

Tuesday, 4pm - 6:30pm

This workshop is designed for junior and seniors in any concentration who are researching and writing about Latin America and the Caribbean. It will help students to enhance their research and organization skills, refine their research or creative projects, and develop or complete a Capstone Project (e.g. honors thesis, honors project, substantial research paper).

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

	Language(s) of Instruction	Course Code	Course Title	Instructor
1	English	AFRI 0210	Afro Latin Americans and Blackness in the Americas	Anani Dzidzienyo
2	English	AFRI 0670	Global Black Radicalism	Brian Meeks/ Geri Augusto
3	English	AFRI 1210	Afro-Brazilians and the Brazilian Polity	Anani Dzidzienyo/ Keisha Khan-Perry
4	English	COLT 0510F	Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, The Men and the Myths	Esther K. Whitfield
5	English	COLT 0710I	New Worlds: Reading Spaces and Places in Colonial Latin America	Stephanie Merrim
6	English	DEVL 1560	Economic Development in Latin America	Veronica Ingham
7	English	ENGL 1711N	Monsters in our Midst: The Plantation and the Woods in Trans-American Literature	Dixa Ramirez
8	English & Spanish	ETHN 0090A	The Border/La Frontera	Evelyn Hu-Dehart
9	English	ETHN1200D	Latinx Literature	Ralph Rodriguez
10	English	GNSS1520	Latin American Horror	Jeremy Lehnen
11	Spanish	HISP 0710B	Hispanic Culture Through Cinema	Mercedes Vaquero
12	Spanish	HISP 0730	Encounters: Latin America in Its Literature and Culture	Iris Montero
13	Spanish	HISP 1330Z	Tropical Fictions: Geography and Literature in Latin American Culture	Felipe Martinez-Pinzon
14	English	HISP 1333E	Visions and Voices of Indigenous Mexico	Iris Montero
15	Spanish	HISP 2350X	Literatures of Work and the Work of Literature in Latin America	Felipe Martinez-Pinzon
16	English	HIST0580M	The Age of Revolutions, 1760-1824	Jeremy Mumford
17	English	HIST 1310	History of Brazil	James Green
18	English	HIST 1320	Rebel Island: Cuba, 1492-Present	Jennifer Lambe
19	English	HIST 1331	The Rise and Fall of the Aztecs: Mexico 1300-1600	Robert Cope
20	English	HIST 1333	The Mexican Revolution	Evelyn Hu-Dehart
21	English	HIST1340	History of the Andes from Incas to Evo Morales	Jeremy Mumford
22	English	HIST1958A	Archives of Desire: Non-Normative Genders and Sexualities in the Hispanophone World	Javier Fernandez Galeano
23	English	HIST 1966Q	Colonial Encounters and the Creation of Latin America	Robert Cope
24	English	HIST 1967C	Making Revolutionary Cuba, 1959-Present	Jennifer Lambe
25	English	INTL 1803W	Roots of Crisis in Central America	Stephen Kinzer
26	Portuguese	POBS 0610	Mapping Portuguese-Speaking Cultures: Brazil	Patricia Sobral
27	English	POBS 0711	Brazilian Democracy in Literature and History	James Green/Leila Lehnen
28	English	POBS 0810	Belonging and Displacement: Cross-Cultural Identities	Patricia Sobral
29	English	POLS 1210	Latin American Politics	Richard Snyder
30	English	SOC 1281	Migration in the Americas	David Lindstrom
31	Hispanic Studies	HISP 0760	Transatlantic Crossings: Readings in Hispanic Literatures	Luis Miguel Estrada Orozco
32	History	HIST 1381	Latin American History and Film: Memory, Narrative and Nation	Daniel Rodriguez
33	Hispanic Studies	HISP 0750O	Cultural Studies in Spanish America	Luis Miguel Estrada Orozco

*If you are interested in taking a different course and would like to know if it can be used towards the concentration in Latin American and Caribbean Studies, please contact LACA Director of Undergraduate Studies Erica Durante at erica_durante@brown.edu.