This topics course examines technologies of knowing, documenting, and transforming the human body in Latin America. Making use of approaches from history, science and technology studies, and social theory, it traces evolving constructions of race, gender, and human difference from early colonialism to the present with a strong focus on the late nineteenth to twenty-first centuries. This course incorporates Latin American theorizations of race and identity, as well as some classic texts from Euro-US social theory. It draws on both historiographic and ethnographic writing.
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- Nineteenth Century
- Twentieth Century
- Twenty-First Century/Contemporary