HISTORY OF LATIN AMERICA
- Academic year
- 2022/2023 Syllabus of previous years
- Official course title
- HISTORIA DE AMÉRICA
- Course code
- LMI670 (AF:388475 AR:203632)
- Modality
- On campus classes
- ECTS credits
- 6
- Degree level
- Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
- Educational sector code
- SPS/05
- Period
- 2nd Semester
- Course year
- 1
- Where
- VENEZIA
- Moodle
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Contribution of the course to the overall degree programme goals
Expected learning outcomes
- knowledge of the change process intervened in Latin America about the Afro-Latin American people since the 19th Century, regarding the racial policies and the impact in their self-representations and self-definitions;
- knowledge of the material but also symbolic causes that had fostered the changes in the representativeness of the African presence in some areas of the subcontinent;
- awareness about the relationship among slavery, racial policies of the Latin American States, eugenic theories between 19th and 20th centuries, racial democracy ideology and the subaltern conditions in the Latin American societies;
- capacity to analyze critically the Contemporary Latin American politics building, considering his historical process;
- ability to identify the dynamics that had involved the debate about the Latin American political projects and their relationship with the racial issue;
- capacity to adopt the conceptual instruments studied in class in the interpretation of the Latin American political models and the evolution of the racial issue (in a synchronic and diachronic way) as well as in the comprehension of the contemporary political and sociocultural reality;
- know to propose and argue autonomously political-economic and social-cultural actions, considering the elements of complexity present in the Latin American realty.
Pre-requirements
Contents
2. Slavery and the building of an Afro-Latino American space
3. Between the Independence wars and the transformation inside the order: the situation of the Afro-Latin America in the 19th Century
4. Eugenics, Europeanisation, and the salvation of the Nation
5. Populism, nationalism and racial democracy in the 20th Century
Referral texts
(basic knowledge in Latin American History or read a textbook about the Latin America History)
(Mandatory)
ANDREWS, Geroge Reid. Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000. Oxford: Oxford University press, 2004. 304 p.
Further readings will be provided in the first class.
To the NON attendants:
(basic knowledge in Latin American History or read a textbook about the Latin America History)
(Mandatory)
ANDREWS, Geroge Reid. Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000. Oxford: Oxford University press, 2004. 304 p.
AND
You have to choose one of the parts of the book:
DE LA FUENTE, Alejandro; ANDREWS, Geroge Reid (Eds.). Afro-Latin American Studies: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University press, 2018 (Part 1 – Inequalities; Part 2 – Politics; Part 3 – Culture; Part 4 – Transnational Spaces)
Assessment methods
The evaluation will consist in a written (50%) and an oral (50%) exams, always with the target to show his or her capacity to analyze the different aspects of the Latin America society (particularly slavery, domination and forms of black resistance, “blanqueamento” and “Europeanisation” projects, interracial conflicts, racial democracy ideology, political mobilization) presented in the reference texts.
To the attendants (student choice):
1. participation in the formative activities of the course (10%).
2. midterm exam (to test argumentative and critical skills): summary the class discussion (30%)
3. oral group presentation, on a topic agreed with the Professor, related to the course contents (30%);
4. one research paper (2500 words), topics should be defined in consultation with the Professor (30%), to analyze a topic of the class discussions;
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Type of exam
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