2020-21 Academic Catalog

What are the origins of the vibrant indigenous rights movements that have changed politics across Latin America today? Is there something that makes current struggles different from struggles of the past? In order to answer these questions, this course asks you to think about history differently: can we imagine history as something other than a line of progress? Can political struggles be the same if the language that describes them changes? This class will explore alternative conceptions of history, agency, and change as we examine the ways indigenous people have engaged states in Latin America since the nineteenth century.