- What stereotypes have you encountered about Latin America or people from Latin America and the Caribbean? How can you account for them?
- How and why has this region come to be known as “Latin America”?
- Does (or should) Latin America matter to the United States? Why and in what ways
- How does Latin America differ from other areas of the “developing world”? In what ways is it similar?
- How and why have scholarly interpretations about Latin America changed over time?
Modern Latin America
