ETHS 336 - The Struggle for Justice in Latin America

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Case Western Reserve University

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This course looks at how indigenous peoples, women, students, workers, peasants, and Afro-Latin Americans struggled for justice in Latin America. It will study how notions of justice have changed from colonial times to the present. It will also examine how different sectors of Latin American society understood the meaning of justice and how that understanding evolved through time. This class seeks to familiarize students with the history of the idea of justice in Latin America. At the end of this course students will understand the complex intellectual and political differences behind Latin America's apparent chaotic and tumultuous political history. Second, it seeks to develop students' critical thinking by examining how an abstract term, such as justice, changes across time and space. Offered as ETHS 336 and HSTY 336.

Credits:

3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.case.edu

Phone Number:

(216) 368-2000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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