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3.00 Credits
This course focuses substantively on twentieth-century Latin American history, but also gives attention to the particular style of literary journalism or "chronicles" characteristic of th e instructor ? own writings. In other words, this course explores how chroniclers of contemporary Latin American history produce this particular genre. Texts give an overview of the contemporary history of Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, with a full course session devoted to chronicles of Che Guevara. All work in Englis h. A. Guillermoprieto. Autumn
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3.00 Credits
From the Porfiriato and the Revolution to the present, this course is a survey of Mexican society and politics, with an emphasis on the connections between economic developments, social justice, and political organization. Topics include fin de siècle modernization and the agrarian problem; the Revolution of 1910; the making of the modern Mexican state; relations with the United States; industrialism and land reform; urbanization and migration; ethnicity, culture, and nationalism; economic crises, neoliberalism, and social inequality; political reforms and electoral democracy; the zapatista rebellion in Chiapas; and the end of PRI rule. M. Tenorio, E. Kouri. Autumn.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: Advanced standing and consent of instructor. Prior knowledge of appropriate history and secondary literature. The focus of this course is on the period of Mughal rule during the late sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, especially on selected issues that have been at the center of historiographical debate in the past decades. M. Alam. Spring.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a survey of the Colonial period in South Asian History (c. 1757 to 1947), with a particular focus on the imperial technique of rule. D. Chakrabarty. Winter.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: Advanced standing. This colloquium considers law, legal institutions, and legal culture within the lived experience of colonial and revolutionary America. We emphasize the interaction of social development and legal development. We also explore the breadth of everyday experience with legal institutions like the jury, with courts as institutions for resolving disputes, and with the prosecution of crime. E. Cook. Autumn.
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3.00 Credits
PQ: Consent of instructor. This course is a study of Abraham Lincoln's view of the Constitution, based on close readings of his writings, plus comparisons to judicial responses to Lincoln' s policies . D. Hutchinson. Winter.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the historical development of racially segregated metropolitan areas in the United States from the end of the nineteenth century to the present. We look at the historical roots of division along lines of race and class in spatial, as well as economic and cultural, terms. We discuss the impact of various phenomena (e.g., migration, economic shifts, housing legislation, changing social and cultural ideals) and notions of the "American dream." Our explorations cover metropolitan areas across the country, but include a special focus on the Midwest in general and Chicago in particular . T. Mah. Winter.
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3.00 Credits
This lecture course examines selected topics in the African American experience from the slave trade to slavery emancipation. Each lecture focuses on a specific problem of interpretation in African American history, all framed by an overall theme: the "making" of an African American people out of diverse ethnic groups brought together under conditions of extreme oppression; and its corollary, the structural constraints and openings for resistance to that oppression. Readings emphasize primary sources, especially autobiographical materials, supplemented by readings in important secondary sources . T. Holt. Autumn.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores in a comparative framework the historical forces that shaped the work, culture, and political struggles of African American people in the United States from the end of American Reconstruction to the present. T. Holt. Winter.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the history of African Americans in Chicago, from before the twentieth century to the present. Themes include migration and its impact, origins and effects of class stratification, relation of culture and cultural endeavor to collective consciousness, rise of the institutionalized religions, facts and fictions of political empowerment, and the correspondence of black lives and living to indices of city wellness. Texts include autobiography and poetry, sociology, documentary photography, political science, and criminology, as well as more straightforward historical analysis. A. Green. Autumn.
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