From Archie Phinney to Winona LaDuke and beyond, the struggle for Indigenous Liberation is an important but overlooked component of 20th Century U.S. history. After World War II, the United States government pushed to "Terminate" tribes and encouraged Native people to move to cities for industrial employment. Tribes responded with the creation of the National Congress of American Indians.

This course examines the situation of those Indigenous communities in the United States that do not have recognition as tribes from the colonial state. It explores the complicated relationship between race, tribal identity and federal relationship for non-federally recognized tribes, state-recognized tribes, genizaros, Metis, Louisiana Creoles and other communities, with a focus on racial and tribal identities.

For what and whose purposes do young writers write, and how are these purposes represented in our literary, cultural, and political worlds? How can works by young writers be read as literary texts, and how can adults facilitate opportunities for young writers? How do young writers engage with themes of injustice and oppression? This course integrates literary studies and critical youth studies in reframing young writers as cultural producers and participants in literary culture.

Twenty-five years ago the Zapatistas, a revolutionary indigenous movement, rose in revolt in Chiapas. Surfacing the same day that NAFTA went into effect-January 1, 1994, they announced a different vision of Mexico's future. On July 1, 2018, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador [AMLO] swept to power in the first election of a Leftist president since Mexico's "transition to democracy" in 2000. Today, these two poles of resistance are at odds, as the Zapatistas argue that the capitalist hydra, the "monster without a country" continues to rule despite who has been elected.

This is the second of a year-long two semester course taught in conjunction with Security in Context, an international research initiative. Students will continue their research on critical approaches to security studies and will get the chance to participate in one of four thematic research clusters: climate change and insecurity; technologies of surveillance and data capture; political economy of multipolarity; financialization and militarism.

In this course, we will explore the histories of organizing to dismantle the racist underpinnings of colleges and universities in the U.S. Drawing on a range of resources, students will explore the challenges of documenting institutional racism in Higher Education by exploring social contestation on several selected campuses, including Hampshire College. We will pay particular attention to the range of demands, agreements, and anti-racist plans developed as a result of campus activism.

What does international education look like in the wake of a pandemic, especially between nations-the U.S. and Cuba-where political borders are as difficult to traverse in digital space as in physical space? These questions sparked the creation of "La Habana Virtual/Virtual Havana: intercambio y conversacion en la pandemia" (cultural exchange and conversation in a time of pandemic) is an intensive seminar, supported by Hampshire College's 23-year-old Cuba exchange program. This seminar will immerse participants in the past and present of Cuba, with a focus on the capital city of Havana.

Abortion rights continue to be contested in the U.S. and throughout the world. Since it was legalized in the U.S. in 1973, there have been significant erosions in abortion rights and access, and today, legal abortion itself is facing direct challenges from state laws, some of which are already slated to be heard by the Supreme Court. Harassment of abortion clinics, providers, and clinic personnel by opponents of abortion is routine, and there have been several instances of deadly violence. This course examines abortion politics in the U.S. before before legalization to the present.

In the last decade, queer scholars have turned away from the study of identity and textuality to consider the role of affect and emotion in the production, circulation, and regulation of sexuality, race, and gender. This course examines a new body of work in queer studies, feminist studies, and sexuality studies that explores emotion and affect as central to the operation of social, political, and economic power. Topics will include mental illness, hormones, happiness, sex, trauma, labor, identity, and social movements, among others.

What is authoritarianism and why is it so prevalent around the world? Why has democracy and the process of democratization become so difficult to build and sustain? This course explores the varieties of authoritarian and democratic regimes in historical and contemporary contexts. We will explore the relationship between economic and non-economic factors embedded in authoritarian and democratic regimes as well as the ideas and institutions of contested politics.