Gender in the Americas

This web page contains student comments for a 2019 class on Gender in the Americas. There were two readings:

• Sidney Mintz, Three Ancient Colonies, 88-181
• Olivia Harris, “Alterities: Kinship and Gender” in A Companion to Latin American Anthropology

For a related class from 2021, see Gender, Sexuality, Reproduction using the textbook The Anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean:

This class was part of the 2019 course outline for Peoples & Cultures of Latin America and see Teaching Latin America 2019 for course reflections. The larger series includes:

• The most recent Latin America & Caribbean Anthropology 2021 which blogs through the second edition of The Anthropology of Latin America and the Caribbean by Harry Sanabria.
• The 2016 Teaching Latin America and Caribbean Anthropology and the Student Projects.
• Anthropologists Studying Immigration in the United States (2013).
• The first post that launched the series, from 2012: Teaching: Latin America & Caribbean.

These posts are all cataloged in the Latin America index tag for the site, which also includes related blog-posts.

For fall 2021, I’ll be teaching a new first-year seminar course called Upstate Latinx using a book titled Latina/o Studies. Hopefully this course will take the idea of “gender in the Americas” in new directions.