Constructing the (Racial) Other: From the Colonial Caste System to U.S. Latinos

AMERICAN CULTURE STUDIES 4671

The goal of this course is to introduce students to categories and concepts related to the questions of race and ethnicity in Latin America, from colonial times to the present. The course also covers U.S. Latinos as a population of Latin American descent that presents particular characteristics connected to the issues of migration, identity politics, reterritorialization, and cultural hybridity. Based on the theoretical and critical study of problems related to colonialism, social classification, miscegenation, whiteness, discrimination, and the like, representative literary and visual materials will be discussed to illustrate the connections between race, social roles, domestic/public spaces, work, democracy and modernization. The issue of race will be analyzed in its multiple articulations to the themes of nationalism, interculturalism, migration, and symbolic representation. This course covers the seminar requirement for Latin American Studies majors. Prerequisite: L45 165D, one other class in Latin American studies, or one class on race studies.
Course Attributes: EN H; AS HUM; AS SD I; AS SC

Section 01

Constructing the (Racial) Other: From the Colonial Caste System to U.S. Latinos
INSTRUCTOR: Moraña