Revolutions and Diasporas

3 Credits

How have revolutions in Latin America influenced the history of US immigration, refugee, and asylum policies? How have they changed US history, culture, experience, geography, politics and the future? This course examines both the history of major revolutions in Latin America and their impact on Latinx diasporic and immigrant communities in the US. It investigates questions of slavery and freedom US expansionism, radical politics, Third World liberation movements, and the politics of asylum and US immigration policies. Students in the course will learn transnationalist, diasporic, borderlands and other forms of Latinx historical methods. In addition, the course will focus on race, class, gender, sexuality, and the politics of location.