Latin American Studies 260 - Afro-Latin America

Fall
2015
01
4.00
Lowell Gudmundson
TTH 02:40PM-03:55PM
Mount Holyoke College
93376
Skinner Hall 102
lgudmund@mtholyoke.edu
93376,93381,94390
Exploration of the history of Afro-Latin American populations since Independence within and outside the nation-state. We will question why and how to study those whose governments define them not as peoples of African descent but as part of a mixed-race majority of Hispanic cultural heritage, who themselves may often have supported this policy, and who may have had compelling reasons to avoid official scrutiny. Readings include early twentieth-century Latin American racialist theorizing; research using census, economic, criminal, and marriage records; autobiographical works, and analysis of race in textual and musical representations of peoples, regions, and nations.
Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.