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Language and Power in the Americas
Course #: LATAM 360
Description:
This course examines the nature of language power in the construction and history of cultures, nations, and identities in the Americas. The relationships among indigenous languages and colonizing languages Spanish, Portuguese, and English, and their role in the cultural self-fashioning and formation of political subjects will be studies through themes including contact, conflict, conquest, resistance, translation, and transculturation.
Notes:
No knowledge of Spanish required.
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