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LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY
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LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY
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Anno accademico 2025/2026
- Codice attività didattica
- CPS0426
- Docente
- Elena Barattini (Titolare dell'insegnamento)
- Corso di studio
- Master's Degree Course in Area and global studies for international cooperation (Classification of Degree LM-81) [0401M22]
- Anno
- 2° anno
- Periodo
- Primo semestre
- Tipologia
- Caratterizzante
- Crediti/Valenza
- 6
- SSD attività didattica
- SPS/05 - storia e istituzioni delle americhe
- Erogazione
- Tradizionale
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Frequenza
- Consigliata
- Tipologia esame
- Scritto
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Sommario insegnamento
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Obiettivi formativi
The course, focusing on the formation of multi-ethnic societies in Latin America, will allow students to mature a greater awaraness towards the cultural diversity and to understand the relationship between past and present cultures.
It will also allow to acquire expertise on: forms of domination; interaction between different cultural groups; definitions of belonging; structuring of territories; shifting relationship nature-societies.
The course will offer to attending students an interactive form of teaching, based on discussion of sources and bibliographical material in English, French, Spanish and Portuguese. It will use digital history resources and cartographic tools.
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Risultati dell'apprendimento attesi
By the end of this course students will:
1) Be able to identify several key turning points in colonial Latin American history;
2) Understand the basic organizing principles of Mesoamerican, Andean, Hispanic, and mestizo culture, including religion and spiritual beliefs, social hierarchy, gender norms, notions of community, language, and race and ethnicity, agroecosystem changes, representation of nature, and biological hybriddization;
3) Recognize the way power functioned in the colonial system through Iberian logic and political organization, as well as various forms of accommodation, reform, resistance, and rebellion.
4) Appreciate Latin America's diversity and historical significance.
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Programma
As the rest of the Americas, the vast social, cultural, and biological diversity that Latin America society still embodies today had its origins in its long and complex colonial history. This course is designed as an introductions to some of the main themes of colonial Latin American history. We will start our journey in Europe, Africa, and the Americas before Columbus’ arrival in the Caribbean. We will then follow both the imperial forces that shaped the colonial experience as well as the effect that individuals and groups of Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans had in the society and territory as a whole. We will also explore key topics such as slavery, gender, and the construction of racial hierarchies, examining how these forces were central to the formation of colonial societies and continue to shape the region’s historical legacies.
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Modalità di insegnamento
This is an upper-division class with an emphasis on class discussion based on reading primary and secondary sources. Teacher will provide introductory lectures when necessary, but for the most part students will be participating in class discussion by posing questions and encouraging debate.
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Modalità di verifica dell'apprendimento
Attending students:
For attending students, the assessment procedure is based on active participation during class (20%), presentation of an essay agreed with the teacher (30% of the final grade), and a written essay (about 4.000 words, 50% of the final grade). The paper is aimed to check both the students' ability to organize complex knowledge and their knowledge of the discipline. The topic of the paper has to be discussed with the teacher.Non attending students:
A long research paper, minimum 6.000 words. The topic of the paper has to be discussed with the teacher.- Oggetto:
Attività di supporto
The teacher is available for office hour prior scheduling a meeting, for questions and for planning the final paper in advance.
Testi consigliati e bibliografia
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- Altro
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- Essays and articles
- Descrizione:
- Essays and articles commented during the course
- Note testo:
- Attending students.
- Obbligatorio:
- Si
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- Libro
- Titolo:
- Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America
- Anno pubblicazione:
- 2016
- Editore:
- University of North Carolina Press
- Autore:
- J. C. Chasteen
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- Guiding Textbook
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- Si
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- Libro
- Titolo:
- Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000
- Anno pubblicazione:
- 2004
- Editore:
- Oxford University Press
- Autore:
- George Reid Andrews
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- Guiding Textbook
- Obbligatorio:
- Si
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Note
CLASSES BEGIN ON NOVEMBER 3 2025
COURSE SCHEDULE : monday, tuesday, wednesday 4 pm-6 pm
The material useful for the students will be available on the moodle of the course.
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