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This course analyzes Latin America's history in the 19th and 20th centuries through a long story of migration and exile in the region. The class emphasizes global and hemispherical movements in the area since the Spanish American Revolutions. It covers the Wars of Independence; the forge of new nations; the development of second slavery; the arrival and movements of European, African, Caribbean, and Asian populations; the rise of nationalist and anti-foreigner movements; the long and complex relationship between the United States and Latin America; the Cold War and the rise of revolutionary and counterrevolutionary movements; and the emergence of a global Latin American culture. The course readings explore questions of race, gender, and identity as well as the global connections of Latin America with other regions of the world and, especially, with the United States. Seminar readings will focus particularly on Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, Cuba, Brazil, Panamá, Chile, Perú, and the United States. We will discuss books, articles, documentaries, podcasts, primary sources, and websites. At the end of the seminar, students have to present a small research project on StoryMaps, a software that uses georeferenced information to tell stories.
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- José C. Moya, "A Continent of immigrants: postcolonial shifts in the Western hemisphere". Hispanic American Historical Review 86:1 (2006), 1-28.
- Edward Blumenthal and Romy Sánchez, "Toward a History of Latin American Exile in the Nineteenth-Century. Introduction", Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América Latina 32:2 (2021): 7-21
- Ernesto Bassi, The 'Franklins of Colombia': Immigration Schemes and Hemispheric Solidarity in the Making of a Civilised Colombian Nation. Journal of Latin American Studies, 50:3 (2018), 673-701. doi:10.1017/S0022216X17001213
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