The Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies

Interdisciplinary introduction to the principal questions, themes, and debates in the field of Caribbean studies. Emphasis on the complex connections and fragmentation of the different histories, cultures, and nations of the Caribbean basin.

History of the Caribbean from before the Spanish conquest until the consolidation of the US imperial sphere in 1898. Emphasis on Spanish, English, and French colonialism and the formation of Jamaica, Saint Domingue/Haiti, Puerto Rico, Cuba and Española/Dominican Republic.

Examines the experience of Caribbean women in nations of origin and in diasporic communities in the US. Focus on work, migration, transnationalism, family, daily life, gender relations, and politics. Credit not given for both this course and 01:988:210.

Historical and contemporary experience of Latinos and Latin Americans with migration to/from the US and migration within the US. Development of regional, national, and transnational practices. Emphasis on causes and experience of migration. Not open to first year students. Seniors may enter with special permission.

Historical and contemporary formation and experience of Latino cultural, political symbolic, and geographic communities in comparative perspective. Participation of Latinos and Latin American migrants in broader communities. This course is now required for the Major and an option for the Minor. It is open to first, second and third year students.

An introductory course in the art and visual culture of the Caribbean from the pre-Conquest to the present. Interdisciplinary in scope, the class looks comparatively at models from visual culture, literature, film, theatre, and music. No prerequisites. Open to all except first year students. Will change to new Course Number over the summer.

Post-revolution Cuban Cinema and the New Latin American Cinema*   
This course will focus on a number of films and videos produced after the Cuban revolution of 1959. 
Through the screening of films and assigned readings, the course will examine the meaning of Cuban post revolutionary 
film productions in the context of the New Latin American Cinema, and explore aspects of Cuban culture as conveyed 
by Cuban filmmakers. Issues of  identity, difference, gender, race, sexual orientation and political descent will be 
considered and discussed. We will also consider how the political  system is conveyed by Cuban filmmakers. 
Additional issues that will be considered include the nature of the moving image in general and the Cuban moving image 
in particular. Is the moving image in Cuban cinema a reflection  of Cuban reality or is it a reflection of the filmmaker's 
confrontation with Cuban reality? The first position makes the filmmaker a conduit for Cuban reality; the second position 
makes the filmmaker the interpreter of Cuban reality.

Open to all except first year students. Will change to LHCS 225 over the summer.

This course examines the history of people of Latin American and Hispanic Caribbean descent in the United States over the last two centuries. We examine how immigrants, exiles, incorporated colonial populations, and established ethnic/racial communities were created and how they adjusted, resisted, adapted and integrated to the many forces that have affected their lives in the US, creating new ethnic, racial and local identities and cultures in the process.

From the French invasion of Hispaniola to the present. Role in Spanish empire, U.S. control in the transition to the sugar economy, Trujillismo, the U.S. invasion in 1965 and the impact of migration on society. Credit not given for both this course and 01:508:372. Open to all except 1st year students.

A study of Cuba from pre-Columbian times to the present day. Deals with the long battle for freedom during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Credit not given for both this course and 01:508:370 Open to all except 1st year students.