Race, Gen, Col in LatAm Carib

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

This advanced undergraduate seminar will consider the afterlives of colonialism 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 nineteenth and twentieth century nationalist visual and literary cultural production in the form of painting, film, poetry, and the novel, the course will elucidate how gendered anti-Blackness and anti-Indigeneity has been central to the colonial imagination and attendant nation-building processes in Latin America and the Caribbean. In an act of counter-mapping, the course will also attend to anti-colonial Black and Indigenous cultures and politics from the colonial period to the present.