Reproducing inequalities

Abstract

This course exams the history of Latin America, from the colonial period to the present, through the lens of family. In Latin America historically, family and kinship have been fundamental cultural categories, central to political power and economic activity, elite domination and plebeian survival, honor culture, the agrarian order, labor systems, entrepreneurship, and migration, among other social formations. This course will explore changing structures and meanings of family and how they intersect with these social formations in the Latin American past.