The Center for Caribbean Studies is interested in highlighting scholarship and teaching related to building critical understandings of the Greater Caribbean Region throughout a range of departments at Trinity.
Recent and current Center co-directors have taught courses in Anthropology, History, and Music.
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ANTH-319-01 Understandings of Puerto Rico
教练(s)古兹曼，阿曼达
分布要求: Meets Social Sciences and Global Requirements
课程描述: An island uniquely characterized by a liminal political status and a dominant stateside diaspora, 美国.S. Commonwealth of Puerto Rico has been the subject of renewed national attention in the wake of the devastating 2017 Hurricane María and the 2019 “Verano Boricua” which saw the ousting of the governor, 里卡多Rossello. This course interrogates 波多黎各 culture on its own terms – shifting from traditional definitions of identity formation to contemporary critiques centering historically marginalized communities amidst ongoing climate and economic precarity. Students will work hands-on analyzing diverse (im)material 文化生产s, originating from the island and stateside diasporas. Students will engage with 波多黎各 cultural workers as they develop new, critical understandings of the island’s cultural legacy and its future.
ANTH-241-01- Women in 加勒比海
教练(s)DiVietro, Susan
分布要求: Meets Social Sciences Requirement
课程描述: This course explores the diverse lives of women of 加勒比海. We will begin with feminist theories of women and power and trace how those understandings have emerged and changed over time. We will use ethnographies to examine women’s lives in both historical and contemporary Caribbean settings and explore major theoretical approaches in feminist and Caribbean anthropology. We will analyze how women’s experiences have been shaped by multiple forces, including slavery and emancipation, fertility and constructs of motherhood, 性别与暴力, 种族和身份, 旅游与性工作, 疾病和贫穷, 全球化, 和劳动.
FYSM-145-01- Puerto Rico and 加勒比海
教练(s)德拉诺，巴勃罗
分布要求: Meets First Year Seminar Requirement
课程描述: This course provides a grounding in the complexities and nuances that make up Caribbean society, with a special focus on Puerto Rico and its unique status as an unincorporated territory of 美国nited States. We will look at Puerto Rico and 加勒比海 region through the lens of history, 文化生产, 科学进步. We will challenge established stereotypes about 加勒比海 and gain understandings of the present-day Caribbean and its diaspora. We will consider what commonalities link the greater Caribbean region. The course will include guest speakers as well as hands-on workshops. It will be taught in col劳动ation with the Center for Caribbean Studies.
HIST-236-01 Understanding Latin America & 加勒比海
老师: Euraque,达里奥
分布要求: Meets Humanities and Global Requirements
课程描述: This interdisciplinary course explores major historical themes and contemporary cultural and political topics related to Latin American and Caribbean 社会 and cultures. The goal is to give students a panoramic view of Latin America and 加勒比海 and to introduce them to various issues that are explored more deeply in upper-division courses. We will address questions of demography and geography, basic historical periods and processes, particular anthropological and cultural debates, fundamental political and gender issues, sociological approaches to daily life, aesthetic and literary movements, and the regions’ positions within the historical and contemporary world economy.
HISP-280-01- Hispanic 哈特福德
老师: Aponte-Aviles, 援助ali
分布要求: Meets Humanities and Global Requirements
课程描述: This course seeks to place Trinity students in active and informed dialogue with the 哈特福德 region’s large and diverse set of Spanish-speaking communities. The course will help student recognize and analyze the distinct national histories (e.g. 秘鲁, 波多黎各, 智利, 洪都拉斯, 古巴, 哥伦比亚, and Mexican) which have contributed to the Hispanic diaspora in the city and the entire northeastern region of 美国nited States. Students will undertake field projects designed to look at the effects of transnational migration on urban culture, 制度建设, 以及身份的形成.
MUSC-111-01- Samba Ensemble
老师: Galm,埃里克
分布要求: Meets Art and Global Requirements
课程描述: Emphasis is on the study and performance of the Brazilian samba drumming tradition. Related musical styles 和音乐al genres are also included. Previous performance experience is not required, and students may take this course for more than one semester. Membership by permission of the instructor. Also listed under International Studies – Latin American and Caribbean.
HISP-306-01 Literature, Film, Music Hispanic Caribbean
老师: 特,普里西拉
分布要求: Meets Humanities and Global Requirements
课程描述: Through the study of film, 文学作品, 和音乐 of the Hispanic Caribbean (Cuba, 多米尼加共和国, Puerto Rico) the course explores major political concepts rooted in the struggles against slavery, racism and colonialism that have given 加勒比海 its sense of identity. The course (conducted in Spanish) analyzes this region’s artistic production from the early part of the twentieth century 直到现在 helping students understand the cultural, 社会, 政治上的挑战, 挫折, and triumphs of the Hispanic Caribbean connecting its complex realities with the experience of populations of Caribbean origin in 哈特福德, CT.
HIST-238-01- Caribbean History
教练(s)欧拉克，达里奥
分布要求: Meets Humanities and Global Requirements
课程描述: The location of the first encounter, 征服, and colonization of Native American peoples by Europeans, 加勒比海 became a center of bitter rivalries between European imperial powers, and later in the 20th century a new, premiere location of 美国nited States’ own imperial thrust. The Caribbean’s strategic location in relation to Atlantic Ocean trade routes and its tropical climate and fertile soils were key factors in shaping these imperial rivalries and the colonial and postcolonial 社会 that emerged in the region. This course will introduce students to these and other aspects of Caribbean history, 来自前欧洲时代, through the epics of the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) and the 古巴 Revolution of 1959, 直到现在.
HIST-256-01- Human Rights in Latin America & 加勒比海
老师: Euraque,达里奥
分布要求: Meets Humanities and Global Requirements
课程描述在20世纪70年代和80年代, thousands of people were “disappeared,” tortured and murdered in Latin America and 加勒比海, mostly by military regimes and by para-military death-squads. The period is often characterized as perhaps the lowest point in the modern abuse of “Human Rights” in the region. This course explores how these central notions and human rights have evolved in theory and in practice in the history of the Americas.
HISP-263-01- Latin American Culture I
教练(s)梅伦德斯，普莉希拉
分布要求: Meets Humanities and Global Requirements
课程描述: This course examines the history, 社会, and cultures of the various regions that today are known as Latin America. The course moves from the major pre-Columbian civilizations, through the first encounter between Europe and these peoples, the subsequent 征服 and colonization, and the first manifestations of the desire for independence. The course will concentrate specifically on how the peoples of these various regions and periods explored their 社会 and political concerns through art, 文学, 和音乐.
INTS-376-01- Latin American Politics
教练(s): Fernandez Milmanda, Belen
分布要求: Meets Social Sciences Requirement
课程描述: The course examines the processes of political, economic and 社会 change that took place in Latin America in the XX and XIX Century. Topics include: the rise of populism and import-substituting industrialization, revolutions and revolutionary movements, the causes and consequences of military rule, the politics of economic reform, 民主转型, 大宗商品繁荣, 然后左转. For each topic we will review classic political science theories and critically evaluate their applicability to Latin American countries. We will also discuss the lessons that can be drawn from Latin American cases for the study of these topics in the rest of the world.
URST-359-01- Latinx Urban Activism
教练(s):小库托.罗伯特•
分布要求: Meets Humanities Requirement
课程描述: We will examine the emergence and evolution of urban political activism by Latinas and Latinos in 美国nited States from the early 1900s 直到现在. We will begin with the impact of U.S imperial expansion and colonialism (1848-present), and then track the emergence of Pan-Latinx identities and political coalitions between Latinx, 非裔美国人, 以及其他种族群体. Topics include urban political manifestations of the following: civil rights movements, 劳动, 还有学生运动, struggles for gender and sexual liberation, 移民政策, 公民身份, 投票权, 选举代表, 文化公民身份, 城市更新, 中产阶级化, and “the right to the city.” This course explores various cities that had interaction of political activism with urban policy and planning to consider equitable alternatives in the past and present.
POLS-347-01- The Politics of Race in Latin America
老师: 加布里埃尔·萨尔加多
分布要求: Meets Social Sciences and Global Requirements
课程描述: This course focuses on the major concepts which have shaped dominant understandings of race in Latin America throughout the 20th century: mestizaje, the interpretation of Latin American racial identity as one of mixture; indigenismo, the emphasis on indigeneity as constitutive of racial identity in Latin America; and racial democracy, the argument that higher rates of miscegenation in Latin America (particularly Brazil) reflected a history of harmonious race relations. In addition to these three concepts, we will survey current issues related to race in the region such as the production of new sets of rights for Indigenous peoples and movements for the recognition of Afro-Latin American peoples.
