2024-2025 Academic Catalog

Nov 05, 2024

2024-2025 Academic Catalog

SPAN 200 - Afro-Latinx Cultures in the Americas: Movement, Migration and Complex Identities

Afro-Latinx Cultures in the Americas: Movement, Migration and Complex Identities” is a PoP course centered around the interdisciplinary exploration of Afrolatinindad from a transnational perspective. Focused on concepts such as movement (broadly understood) and phenomena such as migration, the course emphasizes the complex flow and counterflow of racial, ethnic and identity ideas through which Afrolatinidad and Afro-Latinx identities emerge. In that sense, this course will allow us to both understand and use Afrolatinidad as a critical category to deconstruct and reimagine notions of geography, memory, culture and self. Throughout the semester, and using both comparative and relational lenses, we will study cultural productions (i.e., historical, literary, statistical, journalistic, legal, artistic, and algorithmic pieces among others) created by or employed to represent Afro-Latinx subjects, groups and communities in diverse nations in the Americas and the Caribbean. Connecting these cultural products to their contexts will allow students to understand that the movement of ideas and cultural representations of Blackness in Latinidad is not only transnational and unidirectional (North-South), but multivalent, continuous, and ever-changing.

Course taught in Spanish.

Course Designation/Attribute: POP, DI, GP

Anticipated Terms Offered: Annually