Engages students in key concepts and debates about race and ethnicity in Latin America. Through a range of theoretical/critical texts, paired with representative primary texts and other material, we will explore ideas such as limpieza de sangre, the casta system, mestizaje, indigenismo, Afro-Latin American social and cultural movements, and questions of racial and ethnic identities as they have emerged, flourished, or vanished since the European encounter with the Americas.