AFRSTY 204 - Afro-Latin America

3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once

Description:
Students will develop an in-depth understanding of the particular experiences of African and African descended peoples in Hispanophone, Lusophone, and to a lesser extent the Francophone territories of Latin America and the Caribbean. This course seeks to help students explore the particularities of slavery in the Americas, the Haitian Revolution and its impact on articulations of race and nation in the region, debates on “racial democracy,” the relationship between gender race, and empire, and recent attempts to write Afro-Latin American histories from “transnational” and “diaspora” perspectives. Students will explore the scholarship by historians, anthropologists, and sociologists and examine the links between scholarship and struggle and between social analysis and social transformation.

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