AAS 3020 - Themes in Afro-Latin American and -Latinx Studies

3 Credit Hours
Description
This course adopts an interdisciplinary approach in examining the cultural and historical implications of Black life in the context of the U.S., Latin America, and the Caribbean. A close examination of a variety of cultural productions produced by or about people of African descent with identity connections to Latin America. Through the study of cultural expressions of Blackness throughout different regions of the Americas, students consider the relationship that social and historical processes such as national sovereignty and colonialism have on cultural and artistic production made by and about Afro-descent individuals. (Same as WLC 3010 and WGSS 3020.)