Afro-Latin AmericaPosted in Anthropology, Brazil, Caribbean/Latin America, Course Offerings, History, Media Archive, Mexico, United States on 2016-03-09 22:08Z by Steven |
State University of New York, Albany
Summer 2016
Course Info: ALCS 203
Analysis of blackness in Latin America with a focus on the representations of peoples of African descent in national identities and discourses. The course examines some of the “myths of foundation” of Latin American nations (e.g. The “cosmic race” in Mexico, “racial democracy” in Brazil, etc.), and how these myths bring together ideas of nation, gender, race, blackness, whiteness, and mestizaje (racial and cultural mixture).