SPAN 314 Intro Afro-Latinx&A-L Amer. Clt. Stdies
In this course, a focus on Afro-Latinx voices and cultural expression allows us to study and question the history of racial categories in the Americas. Students will examine literary and cultural works across an array of Afro-Latinx experiences and diasporas, including Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Cuba. We will situate these productions in historical and social contexts to analyze how race, gender, and sexuality complicate easy definitions of latinidad. Some of the topics to be discussed may include identity formation and negotiation in terms of language, race, gender, sexuality, and class; radical biwoc feminisms; the colonial subject and euro-centricity; diaspora and emigration; anti-racist and anti-colonial activism; and activism through art.