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

This course engages students in key concepts and debates about race and ethnicity identity in Iberian, Latin American, and Latinx cultures and societies. Through a range of theoretical/critical texts paired with representative primary texts, art, audiovisual media, and other relevant primary material, we will explore the castasystem, ideas and programs related to the limpieza de sangre and whitening, mestizaje and its connections to ideologies, indigenismo, Afro-Latin American and Afro-Iberian social and cultural movements, Hispanism, and questions of racial and ethnic identities as they have emerged, flourished, or vanished since the European encounter with the Americas. We will interrogate these concepts and debates and examine the role they have played and continue to exercise in the development of cultural production, human interaction, and sociocultural organization. Throughout the course we will take an intersectional approach to race & ethnicity in order to see how these paradigms intersect with others, such as gender and class.
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Race and Ethnicity: Race, Labor and Affect in Latinx culture

SPANISH 5061

Section 01