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HIST 461 Race and Ethnicity in Latin America Units: 3.00
Examines the construction of racial and ethnic difference and the history of race relations in Latin America from European contact to the present, with emphasis on Indigenous, Africa-descended, and mixed-race peoples in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Learning Hours: 144 (36 Seminar, 108 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite Registration in a HIST Major or Joint Honours Plan and a minimum grade of C+ in 6.0 units from HIST 300-330.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Identify major patterns and developments in the history of race relations and racial ideologies in Latin America, particularly as they relate to Indigenous, Africa-descended, and mixed-race peoples in the 19th and 20th centuries.
- Recognize and participate in the scholarly debates that inform the subdiscipline of the history of race and ethnicity.
- Appreciate the many complexities, specific to place and time, in how racial and ethnic identities are constructed, perceived, and performed, and in how boundaries defined as racial or ethnic are socially and culturally enforced and/or challenged.
- Critically analyze historical scholarship with an eye to judging the quality of their research, the nature of sources employed, and the validity of argumentation.
- Present historical interpretation in clear prose and oral discussion, to demonstrate the ability to construct an argument by marshaling appropriate evidence.