Spanish 372 - SEM:TOPICS LAT AM & IBERIAN ST

Topics course.: In this seminar we investigate the lives of individuals of African origin (artists, revolutionaries, scholars, migrant workers, a Smith Study Abroad student) who lived or travelled in Spain at different historical times: painter Juan de Pareja (Velazquez’s slave) in the 17th century, whose breathtaking portrait by Velazquez hangs at the New York Metropolitan Museum; Arturo Schomburg, in the 1920s, a pioneer scholar of Afro-American Studies, who travelled to Spain in order to research Pareja; volunteers of the Lincoln Brigade in the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s, such as poet Langston Hughes, singer-actor Paul Robeson and nurse Salarla Kea); migrant workers in the late 20th century; and finally Smith student Lori L. Tharp, author of a travel memoir of her Junior Year Abroad, Kinky Gazpacho (2008), which she describes as a “racial coming of age.” Through these different historical periods, people and situations we study the effects on racial ideology of factors such as cla

Topic: Blackness in Spain. Not open to first-years, sophomores