The aim of this course is to analyze the complex role(s) of food in societies. We will use food as a lense to study world history. In particular, we are interested in exploring how food helps one to further elucidate questions of race, politics, gender, social inequality, nationalism, empires, and globalization. (One course).
- Teacher: Amy de Farias
This course will focus on Latin America's dissenting voices in literature, history, politics, philosophy, and the arts. This is a history course; however, given the nature of the material, we will adopt an interdisciplinary approach in this class. Some of the topics and names we will discuss include: José Marti and anti-imperialism, literature and protest, socialism, and radical politics in Brazil, art and revolution in Mexico, José Carlos Mariátegui in Peru and Marxism in Latin America. Radical Feminism, Che Guevara and the export of revolution, and the Pink Tide. We will analyze these and other alternative political projects formulated by intellectuals and activists in order to evaluate their attempt to eliminate social, racial, and gender inequalities in Latin America. (One course).
- Teacher: Amy de Farias
(Cross-listed with LAST 120) Using an interdisciplinary approach, this course will present historical and culturally diverse materials. Major themes we will study include: cultural encounters, political and religious conquests, race as a social and historical category, decolonization, the creation of new nation states, economic inequality, gender relations, political and cultural revolutions, military dictatorship and, finally, the return to democracy. A historical framework will structure and inform our study of Latin America. (One course).
- Teacher: Amy de Farias