Haiti and Mexico

Comparing and Contrasting Haiti and Mexico using a topic question from the syllabus

Spring 2019 FINAL PAPER In your final paper, you will choose a topic question from the syllabus to use it as a guide to compare and contrast Haiti and Mexico. You can choose any topic on the syllabus. For example: • How are structure and agency related to social change? • What is the relationship between democracy and development? • What are the legacies of colonialism, modemization, and development? • What is the relationship between tradition and modernity? • What are globalization and neoliberalism? , • How does racial and gender inequality are part of structures of power? • How inequality is related to migration? • How is identity related to the nation-state? What is the relationship between identity and language? • How does the environment influence expressions of gender? • How is sexuality a cultural construct? , • How does globalization influence local expressions of sexuality?The local and the global. • What is Decoloniality? How is it related to gender? • How do people mobilize power outside of the State's control?