Wikipedia:United States Education Program/Courses/Conceptualization of Latin and Latino(a) America (Katherine Hite)/Course description

Course description
An introduction to the basic concepts, theories, and methodologies necessary for the multidisciplinary study of Latin American and Latino communities. The focus of the course varies from year to year according to the topic selected by the instructor. Topic for 2011-12a: Resistance and Struggle in Latino/o/a America. Latin and Latino/a America offer rich sites of popular struggle, from indigenous and peasant-based movements over land and cultural rights, to working class struggles for better conditions, to struggles for gender rights, to reformist and revolutionary movements for political and social equality and national sovereignty. Latin American movements have also transcended national borders, and there are now several transnational fronts of struggle regarding citizenship rights, workers rights, environmental rights, and human rights in the broadest of senses. This course provides an introductory lens on contemporary struggles for change in Latin America and in US Latino America from the post-World War II period to the present. The underlying theme of the course involves the construction and meaning of distinct forms of political activism and political leadership, as Latin America models politics for a host of global actors and movements.

Link to Moodle course site at Vassar (authenticated users only): http://moodle.vassar.edu/course/view.php?id=3243.

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