A Window into Urban Latin America

 This website is the result of a class project on Urban Latin American History in Fall 2020. Students took  two different approaches to understanding urban life in Latin American cities (Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil, Lima, Peru, Santiago de Chile, Bogota, Colombia, Mexico City, Mexico, and Havana, Cuba).

If you click on ‘urban dwellers,’ above you will see   how students carried out interviews with actual people from Latin America in order to better understand the impact of Covid-19 in Fall 2020. 

If you click on ‘urban characters,’ you will see the work students produced as they worked in teams to create an urban character — a fictional person — to explore how social class, gender, race/ethnicity shape someone’s urban experience.

We thank our many friends from Latin America for participating in this project!