Afrolatinidades

Catalog description

A diverse Afro-descendant population, mainly from Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America, has complicated the topic of what it is to be Black in the United States. This student-centered course will examine African-descended populations in Latin America and Afro-Latinx in the United States through a collection of theoretically engaging and creatively grounded sources. We will explore questions of Black identity and representation, colonialism, resistance to slavery and its afterlives, transnationalism, and diaspora. Offering insight into Afro-Latinx lives and new ways to understand culture, ethnicity, nation, identity, and anti-racist politics, the course presents a complex hemispheric view of Afro-descendants. We will address history, music, gender, class, social activism, and media representations during the class. We will include scholarly essays, memoirs, articles, poetry, short stories, films, documentaries, and interviews. Together, these sources will help to bring Afro-Latinxs into a critical center. Students will receive credit for BLS 3019 or LTS 3019. These courses may substitute for each other with the F-replacement option.