•  Prerequisite: Pass in a course in Latin American History

This course will examine how various Latin American thinkers have viewed the problem of freedom, and have endeavoured to put their ideas into practice. The course will cover such areas as: Simon Bolivar and the concept of creole liberation; the ideas of José Martí on liberation and equality; Abdul Nascimiento and the idea of black liberation; CheGuevara and the concepts of socialist liberation and the A new man @ , Victor Haya de la Torre, Carlos Manriategui and José Vasconcelos on indigenous paths to national liberation; workers = liberation within the context of anar- cho-syndicalism, Peronism, socialism and communism. The course will end with the growth of Liberation Theology and Latin American Feminism.