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Campus | Haverford |
Semester | Spring 2024 |
Registration ID | HISTH208B001 |
Course Title | Decolonizing Colonial Latin American and Caribbean History |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | History |
Instructor | Krippner,James |
Times and Days | WF 11:30am-12:55pm
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Room Location | HLL201 |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2327 Can we imagine a decolonial history of colonial Latin America and the Caribbean? This course invites you to try. Decolonization requires us to acknowledge, work through and overcome the structures of power and privilege originating in the colonial experience itself. To do so one must analyze history, historiography (the writing of history) and non-written historical sources across varied time frames and vast geographic expanses, while also grasping the nuances of specific local histories. In Latin America, Spanish and Portuguese rule of the region lasted more than three centuries--in most countries from 1492 until the early 1820s, and in Cuba and Puerto Rico until 1898--and the legacies of colonial rule have conditioned social relations, economic life, culture, and political conflict into our twenty first century. The Caribbean (Iberian and non Iberian) presents an even more complex tapestry, with a diverse array of colonial, as well as neo- and post-colonial political arrangements mediating at times fierce struggles for local autonomy and self-determination, from the sixteenth century up until the present. This course challenges us to think in new ways about past and present as it engages history and theory, the local and the global, and place and space. Social Science, B: Analysis of the Social World, A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) (Hav: SO, B, A) |
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