Upon successful completion of all requirements, the student will have knowledge of:
- Broad thematic periodization and chronology (from the perspectives of identity; oppression and resistance; and democracy and social justice) of the socio-economic, political, and cultural history of the Native American peoples in the Americas, and their role in the history of the Americas up to the present.
- The role of Native American peoples in the evolution of U.S. constitutional democracy through their struggles for sovereignty.
- Major descriptive and analytical themes in the current socio-economic, political, and cultural circumstances of the Native American peoples in the Americas (including their relations with other racial minorities).
- Broad thematic periodization and chronology (from the perspectives of identity; oppression and resistance; and democracy and social justice) of the socio-economic, political, and cultural history of the African, Asian and Latina/o diasporas in the Americas, and their role in the history of the Americas up to the present.
- Major descriptive and analytical themes in the current socio-economic, political, and cultural circumstances of the African, Asian and Latina/o diasporas in the Americas (including their relations with other racial minorities).
- The major literary and audiovisual texts - both fiction and non-fiction - that document aspects of past and/or present socio-economic, political, and cultural circumstances of Native American peoples and the African, Asian, and Latina/o diasporas in the Americas.
- Major descriptive and analytical themes in the historical role of Native American women and the women of the African, Asian and Latina/o diasporas in the Americas, and in their current socio-economic, political and cultural circumstances.
- Major descriptive and analytical themes in the historical evolution of the relationship between human beings and the natural environment in the Americas, from the pre-Columbian era to the present.