Race, Gen, Col in LatAm Carib

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

This advanced undergraduate seminar will consider the contours of colonialism’s legacies in Latin America and the Caribbean and the role of art and culture in coloniality’s enduring presence in the region. Through careful study of cultural production such as painting, poetry, the novel, and film, the course will elucidate how gendered anti-Blackness and anti-Indigeneity has been central to the colonial imagination in Latin America and the Caribbean. In addition to examining white/mestizx cultural production, the course will also attend to Black and Indigenous cultural production. In doing so, the course will map the contours of both colonial imaginaries and Black and Indigenous counter-imaginaries from the colonial period to the present.