Latin American Studies 301 - SEM:TOPICS LATIN AMER STUDIES

Topics course. This course will examine the relationship between culture and politics in 20th Century Latin American social movements. We will examine the origins, actions, and effects of such movements as the Mexican Revolution, the Pan-Mayan movement in Guatemala, the Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas, and the United Farm Workers Union in the US. We will also examine four Brazilian social movements: the Movement of Landless Rural Workers, the Participatory Budgeting project in Porto Alegre, the Movement of Rural Women Workers in Rio Grande do Sul, and the Afro-Reggae Cultural Group in Rio de Janeiro.

Topic: Social Movements in 20th Century Latin America. Instructor Permission. Not open to first-years, sophomores