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Latin American, Latinx & Caribbean History

The 爆料社区 Department of History offers training and expertise in Latin American, Latinx & Caribbean History (LALCH). LALCH explores the history of people of Latin American descent, including lived experiences rooted in indigeneity and Blackness that define the region to this day. From the US to Argentina, and from the precolonial to the modern era, students can learn about LALCH and the major trends in the field, including: 

  • The historical connection and relationships people of Latin American descent have with Indigenous societies, European migrants, and African descendants
  • The cultural diversity of people of Latin American & Caribbean descent in the western hemisphere
  • Understanding the changes that migration and commodity flows across the Americas and the world have produced
  • The interaction that people of Latin American & Caribbean descent have with their environments
  • The struggles, victories, and experiences of Latin American & Caribbean peoples across racial, gendered, and social lines
  • Foreign interference in Latin America and the Caribbean, including by the US
  • Unsilencing and rethinking archival research to bring a voice to Afro-Latinx and Indigenous histories long silenced by the colonial and national archives

Students can work with:  

  • Fernando Amador II (modern Mexico, migration, culture, environment)
  • Alan Malfavon (Colonial and 19th Century Mexico, Latin American, Greater Caribbean, and African Diaspora histories)
  • Citlali Sosa-Riddell (Chicanx history, Southwest Borderlands, 19th California)
  • Alyssa Goldstein Sepinwall (colonial and modern Haiti, French colonialism in the Caribbean, slavery and memory, Caribbean film)
  • Kimber Quinney (US foreign policy in Latin America and elsewhere)

Students can take the following courses:   

  • Colonial Latin America
  • Colonial Mexico
  • Modern Latin America
  • Culture & Identity in Latin America
  • The Aztecs & the Mesoamerican World
  • History of Brazil
  • Haiti & World History
  • Comparative French Colonialism, from the Caribbean to Southeast Asia
  • Chicano/a Experience in the Borderlands
  • History of Pandemics
  • The Immigrant Experience
  • Women in Latin America

Check out what some of our LALCH alumni have gone on to do: 

  • Mayela Caro, Assistant Professor, San Diego Miramar College (former Curatorial Assistant, Smithsonian's National Museum of American History); ABD, UC Riverside, Department of History; MA thesis on 鈥淗ollywoodisms: Latin American Images in Hollywood Films, 1933-1945"
  • Oscar Canedo, Lecturer, San Diego Mesa College and Southwestern College; MA thesis on 鈥淒isrupting the Junta in Argentina: A Longer History of Jimmy Carter, Human Rights, and La Patria鈥
  • Hugo Peralta-Ramirez, current PhD student, UCLA Department of History, studying ethnohistory of Zapotec peoples