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This course will examine the history of Latin America after Spanish rule, from 1821 to the present, focusing on the development of social inequality, civil conflict, and revolution. Cultural and political developments in countries like Brazil, Mexico, Cuba, and Venezuela will be discussed, and the U.S. role in the region, especially toward Central America, will also be considered. Finally, we will examine the historical construction of hierarchies based on race, gender, and economic position, and how those hierarchies have influenced the nature of social and political strife. 1.00 units, Lecture
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No Course Description Available. 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
The location of the first encounter, conquest, and colonization of Native American peoples by Europeans, the Caribbean became a center of bitter rivalries between European imperial powers, and later in the 20th century a new, premiere location of the United States' own imperial thrust. The Caribbean's strategic location in relation to Atlantic Ocean trade routes and its tropical climate and fertile soils were key factors in shaping these imperial rivalries and the colonial and postcolonial societies that emerged in the region. The vast experience of African slavery, the later "indentured" migration of hundreds of thousands of Asians to some colonies, and the migration of similar numbers of Europeans (especially to the Hispanic Caribbean) have shaped deeply yet unevenly the nature of Caribbean societies since the 16th century, giving the Caribbean a complex multi-ethnic, yet also heavily "Western," cultural landscape. This course will introduce students to these and other aspects of Caribbean history, from the pre-European era, through the epics of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) and the Cuban Revolution of 1959, to the pres 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course will introduce students to the history of race and ethnic relations in Latin America and the Caribbean from the arrival of Columbus to the late 20th century. We will explore how the categories of race and ethnicity in Latin America and the Caribbean have undergone a very different evolution when compared to the U.S. Two distinguishing facts that make race and ethnic history in Latin America and the Caribbean different from the U.S.: the much larger "Indian" populations that the Spaniards confronted and, secondly, the larger number of peoples of African descent transferred as slaves to Latin America and the Caribbean. This course will examine this process in the context of colonization, post-Independence political systems, nation-state formation, and contemporary struggles over different identities. This course includes a community learning component. 1.00 units, Lecture
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An interdisciplinary introduction to the history of relations between these two nations, with an emphasis on the experience of Italians in America, through discussion of works of history, sociology, literature, and film. Topics include explorers and colonists; the Great Emigration; the ethnic neighborhood; the trial of Sacco & Vanzetti; mafia; the war against fascism; unions; religion; and assimilation. There will be course-related trips to Little Italys in cities of the Eastern Seaboard. Students wishing to count this course toward a major in Italian should receive permission of the instructor. They will complete their assignments in Italian and will meet with the instructor in supplementary sessions. 1.00 units, Lecture
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A survey focused on the development of Chinese politics, culture, and society from 1600 B.C. to the conclusion of the Ming dynasty in 1644 A.D. This course will provide a historical introduction to the growth of a unified Chinese empire with its own homogeneous intellectual tradition and will explore the empire's coexistence with an enormously varied cluster of regional cultures. 1.00 units, Lecture
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A survey of modern Chinese history in the period covering the last traditional dynastic state (1644-1911) and 20th-century China. Emphasis on the collapse of the Confucian state, China's "Enlightenment," and the Chinese Revolution 1.00 units, Lecture
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This course explores the evolution of the European diet from the Middle Ages through the Twentieth Century. Subjects to be covered include: the Agricultural Revolution, which achieved for Europe yields which broke traditional cycles of feast and famine; the Court Society of Early Modern Europe, which associated menus and manners with civility and asserted the cultural value of food; the depiction of food in European art during the Golden Age of capitalism; the foods of Early Modern empires - coffee, chocolate, and sugar - which fueled middle class socialbility; the invention of the restaurant in Revolutionary France; the development of haute cuisine in Nineteenth-Century Paris and London; and the significance of the continued European resistance to mass-market foods. 1.00 units, Lecture
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No Course Description Available. 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
Who are "Latinos/Latinas" and how have they come to constitute a central ethnic/racial category in the contemporary United States This is the organizing question around which this course examines the experiences of major Latino/Latina groups-Chicanos/Mexicanos, Puerto Ricans, and Cubans-and new immigrants from Central America and the Caribbean. We study U.S. colonialism and imperialism in the Old Mexican North and the Caribbean; migration and immigration patterns and policies; racial, gender, and class distinctions; cultural and political expressions and conflicts; return migrations and transnationalism; and inter-ethnic relations and the construction of pan-Latino/Latina diasporic identitie 1.00 units, Lecture
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