BLACK WOMEN IN LATIN AMERICA

Description

This course takes an interdisciplinary, African Diaspora approach that draws from History, Women’s Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Political Science, Cultural Studies, Media Studies, and Sexuality Studies. We will examine how legacies of slavery, narratives of mestizaje(racial mixing), ideas of womanhood, and class stratification inform the long history of women’s exclusion and oppression in the region, their day-to-day expe- riences of racism and sexism, and their activism and political organizing. Prerequisites: ADW 111/112.