Spanish 247 - Race and Racism in Premodern Iberia
Race & Racism-Premodern Iberia
Fall
2021
01
4.00
Ibtissam Bouachrine
TU TH 1:20 PM - 2:35 PM
Smith College
SPN-247-01-202201
Seelye 109
ibouachr@smith.edu
This course challenges the dominant presentism by exploring understandings of race and racism in the
context of premodern Iberia (present-day Spain and Portugal). Themes include intellectual and physical
encounters between medieval kingdoms from West Africa and Europe, the construction of sameness and otherness in Iberia, and the intersection of race, class, and indigeneity in the Middle Ages.
context of premodern Iberia (present-day Spain and Portugal). Themes include intellectual and physical
encounters between medieval kingdoms from West Africa and Europe, the construction of sameness and otherness in Iberia, and the intersection of race, class, and indigeneity in the Middle Ages.