Race and Migration in the diaspora: Latin America and the Caribbean

This seminar focuses on a critical and often neglected dimension of the Black experience in Latin American and the Caribbean. It introduces students to a particular aspect of the field of Africana studies, that takes account of the particular historical experiences and critical theoretical perspectives that shape the social construction and functioning of race in the region. It introduces students to some of the key thinkers around race in Latin America, the Caribbean and the US, to better understand how ideas of race cross boundaries and intersect to generate specific racial hierarchies. It pays particular attention to how ideas around race respond to broader global forces. It uses migration within Latin America and the Caribbean as a concrete instance for exploring historic and contemporary manifestation of anti-Black racism, and as sites for community building and resistance.