Blacks and Indians in Latin America

4 units

The goal of this course is to introduce students to the study of indigenous and African-based resistance and rebellion in the Americas and the Caribbean from the colonial period to the nineteenth century. Throughout the course, we will discuss how concepts such as agency, popular or subaltern politics, and resistance have been variously interpreted by scholars of both indigenous and African diasporic societies. By beginning in the early colonial period when Indians and Blacks became new social and racial categories, we will think about the relevance and changing meanings of such categories over time, and look beyond national and/or linguistic borders.