LAS 150: Modern Latin America: Race, Rights, and Revolutions

Latin America has a rich and complex social history marked by slavery, colonialism, dictatorships, rebellions, social movements and revolutions. Comparative Racial Politics in Latin America explores the dynamic interplay between racial politics and hegemonic power in the region.

In Latin America, ethnicism and racism against the indigenous peoples and against Afrolatins has prevailed in elite discourse since colonialism and slavery. This is the first integrated study of discursive racism in the Latin world and provides a useful framework for similar research.

Examining the relationship of key leaders to their people, including Hugo Chávez and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua.

Particular attention is given to the revolutionary process in Nicaragua, with an emphasis on the implications and ramifications of the 1990 electoral process. A final chapter includes brief analyses of the still unfolding revolutionary processes in El Salvador and Peru.

This vast three-volume Encyclopedia offers more than 4000 entries on all aspects of the dynamic and exciting contemporary cultures of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Provides a comprehensive, multidisciplinary view of Latin American history and culture from prehistoric times to the present. Covers cultural issues and includes numerous biographical profiles of important figures in politics, letters and the arts.

Multi-volume encyclopedia covering a wide range of introductory topics.

Gran Enciclopedia Iberoamericana contains 8 reference databases in Spanish. It includes images, videos, and the Dictionary of la Real Academia Española. Also offers access to la Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y el Caribe, España y Portugal and to the collection of books "Clásicos de la literatura española".