CSCH 1005 Violence/Resistance 20th Ctry Lat Amer
This honors course examines the nature and purposes of state-directed violence and methods of resistance to it in twentieth century Latin America. Through the close reading of texts and interpretation of film, the course explores what has constituted violence in Latin America, 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.