Introduction to Latin American History (TR 11:00-1:215pm)

Race in Modern Latin America (T 3:30-6:00pm)

U.S. - Latin American Relations

Narrating Race and Nation in Latin America

Peasants, Rebellion and the State in Latin America

Cultural History of Latin America

History of Central America

Modern Economic History of Latin America

Modernity and Its Discontents in Latin America

Tarsila do Amaral, "Segunda Clase" (1931)

One of Brazil's important early modern artists, Tarsila do Amaral (1886-1973), played an influential role, along with her husband Oswald de Andrade in the Brazilian modernist movement. Her work took a decidedly political turn after the worldwide economic crisis of 1929 and Brazil's Revolution of 1930.

This painting was a favorite of E. Bradford Burns, who felt it so perfectly captured the despair produced by "order and progress" economic liberalism (or as he titled one of his most famous books, The Poverty of Progress).