Africana Studies 223 - Caribbean Cultural Thought: The Plantation, Diaspora and the Popular
Caribbean Cultural Thought
Fall
2025
01
4.00
Aaron Kamugisha
TU TH 9:25 AM - 10:40 AM
Smith College
AFR-223-01-202601
Hillyer 103
akamugisha@smith.edu
The course introduces students to the main theoretical interpretations of culture in the Caribbean and gives an overview of Caribbean cultural history. Students are expected to analyze the impact of colonialism, race, class, gender and sexuality in the formation of Caribbean cultural practices, and to interpret cultural expression in its broadest political sense. Key theoretical terms that are central to any understanding of Caribbean cultural thought – the plantation, diaspora, creolization – are addressed in detail in the course. These key terms in Caribbean cultural thought are mobilized in order to give students the analytical tools to consider a wide variety of Caribbean cultural practices, identity formations and ways of interpreting social reality in the region. Enrollment limited to 40.