Race and Human Rights in the Caribbean and Diaspora

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

This course invites students to consider traditional and emerging definitions of race and human rights, and contextualizes these concepts against the history of literary depiction of slavery, abolition, Blackness, mulatez and mestizaje in late 19th- to 21st-century texts. The novels, short stories, and poetry included in the course come from Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and the 20th-century Caribbean diaspora to the US, covering a range of related topics. Can fulfill Modern Latin-American area and taught in Spanish.