CORE 307 - The "Global Village" Reconsidered:Race and Identity in Latin America and South Asia

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Colgate University

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P. Kaimal This course attempts to put today's global society and its myriad problems in historical perspective. The course aims to contextualize the problems of the "Third World" that appear in today's news programs, economic forecasts, films, and literary fiction, in order to render those issues more understandable to students living in the United States, and to allow them to see the issues as they may appear to people living in less powerful countries. Specifically, the course explores how the colonizing process generated the concept of racial difference and attached to it notions of superiority and inferiority, justifying and furthering material inequities. Students search the visions of Latin American and South Asian artists for insights into the histories and identities of these regions, then study ways in which colonial authors and Hollywood screenwriters have "re-presented" these places, and the efforts visible in these works to minimize and transform people on whom they are dependent for both their wealth and their sense of self. The course offers students tools of analysis and ideas for action that they can keep with them when they leave Colga

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.colgate.edu

Phone Number:

(315) 228-1000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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