Art and Decolonization in Latin America: From Colonial Visual Culture to Decolonial Aesthetics

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This course will investigate the ways in which a colonial aesthetic emerges to talk of peoples through an aesthetics of race, re-examining history, anthropology, sociology and Social Darwinism at large. It will also investigate how this colonial aesthetic has been historically contested via decolonial aesthetic means, specifically through Latina/o/x and Caribbean visual arts.