History 287AF - Afro-Latin America

Spring
2017
01
4.00
Lowell Gudmundson
TTH 11:30AM-12:45PM
Mount Holyoke College
98819
Shattuck Hall 107
lgudmund@mtholyoke.edu
98929,98941,98819
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.