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22nd: In your own words, what is the origin story of the United States and how did you learn of it? +matthew power and (photos by) aaron huey.

f Peter Linebaugh on The Commons (start 1:30- end 18:30) Assignment Due Thursday Sep. " Culture of Conquest," in An Indigenous People's History of the United States. " Cult of the Covenant," in An Indigenous People's History of the United States.

" Follow the Corn," in An Indigenous People's History of the United States. f Doctrine of Discovery + roxanne dunbar-ortiz. "The Doctrine of Discovery," in An Indigenous People's History of the United States. " Columbus, The Indians, And Human Progress," in A People's History of the United States. " Letter from Bolivia," The New Yorker, April 8, 2002. " Discovering Columbus's Exploitation," The New York Times, February 17, 2011. Leaving one to ask if Latin America’s transformation in the intervening 500 years has left its people and rich resources as objects of exploitation for nefarious characters led by its local elites and European powers. and of borders, mobility and immigration and multiculturalism, which are in essence about human dignity, human rights, equality and the struggle for social justice.į Even the Rain / También la lluvia (Spanish with English subtitles)į Even the Rain / También la lluvia (Spanish with no English subtitles)Ī story of the conquest of Latin America, as told by García Bernal, that is set in the midst of real-life indigenous social protests against the exploitation and ‘theft’ of Bolivia’s water by foreign corporations. Director Icíar Bollaín’s film compares the colonization of America from 1492 onwards to modern globalization.

Some of the major themes include: state formation and settler colonies, immigration, incarceration and the penal state (regulation of bodies and communities), the invention of ‘race’, and multiculturalism. We seek to understand some of the most contentious issues that define their contemporary experiences: mass incarceration and the penal state in the U.S. In this course we explore the histories, communities, and struggles of African Americans and Latina/os.