College Bulletin 2025-2026 
    
    Feb 26, 2026  
College Bulletin 2025-2026

LALS 065. Issues and Debates in Modern Latin America


(Cross-listed with HIST 065A).
Explores major problems and challenges Latin American nations have been confronting since the last third of the 19th century onward. Topics include the neocolonial condition of the region, nation and state building processes, urbanization, industrialization, popular and elite cultures, modernities in the periphery, and race, class, and gender conflicts.
Social Sciences.
1 credit.
Spring 2027. Almeida.
Catalog chapter: Latin American and Latino Studies 
Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/latin-american-and-latino-studies


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