Conquest of Yucatan

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

Colonial Modernity and the Conquest of Yucatan. This is a class that focuses on a selection of historical and literary narratives as well as modern texts and films about different forms of colonialism and counter-colonial resistance in the Yucatan Peninsula since the 16th century until today; from the invasion of Cortés in 1519 ato the contemporary cyclical invasion of 16 million tourists a year.