Revolution and Intervention in Central America and the Caribbean

This course examines key instances of revolution, reaction, and intervention in select Central American and Caribbean nations during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Students will explore how various forms of imperialism/neocolonialism intensified class, racial, ethnic, and gender inequalities that produced poverty, dictatorship, and armed uprisings in these culturally diverse regions of the Americas. Through primary and secondary sources, film, music, media, popular art and literature students will gain insight into the political, social, and economic trends that made Central America and the Caribbean epicenters of social struggle as well as home to the Western Hemisphere's poorest countries.