This course explores the interplay of culture, ideas, and society in the history of Latin America from Independence (1825) to the present. It takes an interdisciplinary approach and is attentive to issues of class, gender and sexuality, ethnicity and race, power, domination, and resistance. Major themes to be developed in the course are the history of ideas; popular and elite cultures; material and visual culture; work; leisure; and consumption; and the politics of representation.