This course examines the movement of people to and from Latin America from the pre-colonial era through the twenty-first century. It explores the personal and structural motivations for migration and how such movements informed notions of human rights, national identity, and exclusion in Latin America over time. The course will focus on the regional migration of Indigenous peoples, the various waves of European migration to the Americas, the transatlantic slave trade, as well as the ongoing movement of people caused by political, economic, and environmental factors during the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. The course will juxtapose these histories with Latin American migration to other parts of the world, with special attention to the United States. Using primary and secondary source materials, the course will analyze migration regimes to determine why they emerged, how they impacted everyday people, and how such histories inform contemporary calls for migrant and refugee justice throughout the Americas.
Days: TU TH  12:30-01:50 PM

This course traces the three famous voyages of Captain Cook in the Pacific Ocean during the later 18th century and through their contacts with diverse island peoples provide a perspective on how islands came to be occupied through technologies of sailing and navigation, how these people formed their own cultures, and how ocean and island ecologies affect their character even up to the present day.


Same as Anthro 169
Days: TU TH  11:00-12:20 PM