Africana Studies 241AF - Afro-Latin America

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.