Colgate University

First-Year Course Offerings — Fall 2019

CORE 160C   Latin America
Credits1
RestrictionsNo 2021 2020 Instr perm req during Drop/Add
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Core Area Communities
Area of Inquiry
Liberal Arts Practices

Explores how the idea of "Latin America" came to be and the various political purposes it has served from the colonial encounter to the contemporary moment. This is not a traditional survey course that gives an overview of the regional mosaic we have come to call "Latin America." Instead, it illuminates how the very notion of Latin America as a discrete world-region has been conjured and politicized at key historical moments, emphasizing the underlying social inclusions, exclusions, and global relations fueling these multiple (re)inventions. In addition to the central themes of race, nature, and anti-imperialism, the crucial role of the United States as an interventionist foreign power also looms large in this story.