Topics will vary each semester.

The aim of this course is to examine black history, culture and politics across a number of countries in Latin America and the Spanish Caribbean, and Afrolatinidad in the U.S. The course is organized in four parts. It begins with historical texts on the conditions that gave rise to the African Diaspora in this region, including the particularities of transatlantic slave trade. Second, we explore how governments responded to the question of how to incorporate the former enslaved population into the social, political and economic life of their countries. The third part of the course analyzes how these different contexts laid the foundation for different kinds of expressions of black identity, culture and politics over the course of the 20th century. In the final section of the class, we analyze the migration of Afro-Latin Americans to places like New York and Florida and the corresponding emergence of movements asserting afro-latin@/afro-latinx identity in the U.S. Throughout the course we take an intersectional approach and center culture in the making of blackness and anti-blackness.

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