Race and Ethnicity: Race, Labor and Affect in Latinx Culture

3 units

Race, Labor, and Affect in Latinx Culture: In this seminar, we will familiarize ourselves with the trajectories, conceptualizations and challenges to Latinidades in the United States by considering the relationship between race, labor, and affect. We will explore the theoretical and political uses-and limits-of the category of Latinidad by considering aesthetic and affective expressions of Latinx lived experiences, focusing on the roles of labor in Latinx communities-migrant labor, domestic and care labor, etc. We will focus on how labor shapes the affective contours of Latinx experience in relation to race, gender, and sexualities and pay attention to affective articulations that transcend labor and derive from forms of racial joy and pleasure that resist labor as an imperative.