Interdisciplinary introduction to graduate level study of Latin America.

(Also offered as HIST 5610.) Critical issues in diverse U.S. Latina/o histories and forces that contributed to the arrival of people of Latin American and Caribbean heritage to the United States. Topics include: the epistemological origins and historiographical traditions of the field; U.S. empire; labor, migration, and diaspora; border formations; constructions of gender and sexuality; and comparative racialization.

Intensive study of specialized topics not ordinarily covered in the graduate curriculum, taught by visiting scholars or joint appointment faculty.

Latinos and U.S. education.

(Also offered as SOCI 5525.) This interdisciplinary course considers intersections of race, immigration, and reproduction within the United States and in a transnational context.

(Also offered as HIST 5622.) The history and historiography of postcolonial Latin America, with particular attention to shifting notions of race, nation, and citizenship, and the emergence of new spatial configurations and social groups pressing for political inclusion and economic rights.

(Also offered as ANTH 5800.) Exploration of how race and the human sciences emerged out of the theological, epistemological, and political upheavals that resulted in the Euromodern world.

Independent, interdisciplinary research project culminating in a written paper, developed by the student under the supervision of a committee consisting of a first and second reader. The first reader will be the major advisor on the project. Capstone course for the master's degree, to be taken after all other course requirements are completed.

(Also offered as AFRA 6470.) Theory and practice of how teaching within a higher education context can work toward racially equitable learning experiences and decoloniality of the classroom.

Examination of hispanophone, francophone, and anglophone works of literature and thought from the 20th and 21st century insular and coastal Caribbean. Course discussions focus on the aesthetic and conceptual strategies Caribbean writers employ in response to the literary, intellectual, and sociopolitical contexts that bring their work into being.