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LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES (L45)  (Dept. Info)Arts & Sciences  (Policies)SP2025
L45 LatAm 5235Blackness in Brazil3.0 Units
Description:Brazil is the country with the largest population of people of African descent outside of the African continent. However, with its history of race mixture under colonialism and slavery, many have imagined Brazil as a racial paradise such that race minimally influences one's social, political, or economic quality of life. The main focus of this course will be to understand from an interdisciplinary approach, first, the historical and sociocultural conditions of the African diaspora in Brazil. Second, we will focus on how national ideologies of racial mixture employ a rhetoric of inclusion that incorporates selective aspects of black culture into Brazilian national identity while excluding black people from the protections and pleasures of full citizenship. Beginning with the experiences of enslaved Africans, we will engage how Afro-Brazilians have developed ideas and spaces of freedom and belonging through social movements, religion, the arts, and resistance well into the black consciousness movements of the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In the course, we will collaboratively read, view, and listen to a variety of primary and secondary sources in order to analyze and write about blackness and the lives of black people in Brazil across history, intersecting, most predominantly, with the social structures of gender, sexuality, class, and religion.
Attributes:A&S IQ: HUM, LCD, SCArch: HUMArt: HUMBU: BA, HUM, ISEN: H
Instruction Type:Classroom instruction Grade Options:CP Fees:
Course Type:IdentSame As:L90 4235  L45 4235  L90 5235Frequency:None / History
SecDays       TimeBuilding / RoomInstructorFinal ExamSeatsEnrollWaits
01M-W----11:30A-12:50PTBAMundellPaper1590
Desc:For AFAS majors, this course counts as Area Requirement 4.
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L45 LatAm 557Gender and Modernity in Latin America3.0 Units
Description:The objectives of this course are twofold. The first goal is to provide students with critical and theoretical foundations for the study of gender issues in modern Latin America, through the analysis of conceptual (social, philosophical and political) texts. This part of the course entails the study of historical contexts that connect the emergence of Latin American societies to questions of imperial domination, coloniality, and modernization. The second goal of the course is to illustrate the conceptualization and the evolution of gender issues through the analysis of some representative figures and cultural processes that show differential articulation of subjects in the public sphere depending on gender. The study of the interconnections between femininity/masculinity, hetero/homosexuality and racial differences will be traced from colonial times to the present. Some instances of this critical journey will focus on topics such as gender in the new Latin American republics, gender and modernization, identity politics, human rights and intersectionality. Required readings will be critical and theoretical pieces plus some fictional works. Particular cases will be approached through analysis of political figures (Eva Peron), women artists (Frida Khalo, Ana Mendieta), literary works (Bad Girls, novel by Camila Sosa Villada; Fever Dreams by Smanta Schweblin) and films (El cuarto de Leo (2009), and Fever Dreams (2021).
Attributes:A&S IQ: HUMArch: HUMArt: HUMEN: H
Instruction Type:Classroom instruction Grade Options:CPA Fees:
Course Type:IdentSame As:L45 457  L77 457  L97 457Frequency:Every 1 or 2 Years / History
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