HIS 5106 SEMINAR;VIOLENCE AND RESISTANCE IN TWENTIETH CENTURY LATIN AMERICA
This course examines the nature and purposes of state-directed violence and resistance to it in 20th century Latin America. Through the close reading of texts and interpretation of film, students will explore what has constituted Latin American violence, the public versus private nature of violence, its intersections with ethnicity and gender, and the ways in which victimization, accountability, and human agency have changed over time. Assignments will require students to investigate the nature, purposes, and results of state-directed acts of violence (Argentina146s Dirty War, the slaughter of Mayan Indians in Guatemala, and Chile146s repressive dictatorship for example) and torture, as well as the various forms of resistance citizens utilized to challenge repression.