How does Elizabeth Acevedo represent “triple consciousness” in this poem? What statements stood out to you? Are there arguments that resonated with you or that you don’t agree on? Do you understand las Afro-Latinidades through a different perspective that we have not covered yet? Presentation(s) Florenciany,Jessica Gonzalez,Elizabeth Morales V,Jaylynn Marie General Questions: What are Miriam… Continue reading Introduction: The Afro Latin@ Reader- Miriam Jiménez Román and Juan Flores (Day 2)

A Forced and Torturous Journey to Las Américas In Betweenness: Triple Consciousness Flores and Jiménez Roman say that negros/negras of Latin American descent experience in the US a triple consciousness. “In studying the historical and contemporary experience of the United States Afro-Latin@, one ever feels his three-ness,—a Latin@, a Negro, an [US] American; three souls,… Continue reading Introduction: The Afro Latin@ Reader-Miriam Jiménez Román and Juan Flores (Day 1)

I. Self-care Instructions: Get together with your team, and discuss these three questions. .What does self-care mean to you?  .How do your personal, academic, or job responsibilities impact your ability to practice self-care?  What are some ways to overcome these challenges? II. Zine Projects Check-in Tell us about your project. Create a mental map for… Continue reading Self-Care Discussion + Conversations on Projects

I. Exam In the in-class exam, you will select four critical and comparative questions (out of seven) about the class sources. They will allow you to practice your analytical skills. Focus on the following topics and sources: .Histories of slavery and Black formation (Mbembe) .The notions of “race,” “man,” and the “west”(Mbembe and Trouillot) .Black… Continue reading Review + Zine Workshop II

Entry Question Ariana Brown starts her section on Gaspar Yanga by quoting Afro-Canadian poet, essayist, and documentarian Dionne Brand: “Black Experience in any modern city or town in the Americas is a haunting. One enters a room, and history follows; one enters a room, and history precedes. History is already seated in the chair in… Continue reading We Are Owed (Selection)-Ariana Brown

In the second part of the essay, Richard Price develops these five points, highlighting contradictions and rejecting an idealization of marronage: Cultural adaptation and survival: Maroons were equipped with cultural and ecological knowledge from different regions in Africa, aboriginal societies, and “new world” plantations, aiding their physical adaptation to hostile environments. Maroon societies in conflict:… Continue reading Maroons and their Communities (Pages 15-30)- Richard Price

.Maroons were self-emancipated Africans and Afro-descendants who resisted slavery and colonialism by escaping plantations and urban areas to remote areas protected by nature. Some escaped alone or in small groups, and others created larger communities and freedom towns. This permitted the fusion and preservation of indigenous and African people’s knowledge, and cultures. .Maroon freedom towns… Continue reading Maroons and their Communities (Pages 1-15)- Richard Price

“The Permanence of Structures”- Rosana Paulino (2017) On African Resistance Resistance did not exist as a global phenomenon. Rather, each case of unmistakable defiance, each possible instance of resistance was treated separately and drained of its political content. (83) Built into any system of domination is the tendency to proclaim its own normalcy. To acknowledge… Continue reading An Unthinkable History: The Haitian Revolution as a Non-Event (Pages 83-95)

Why is the Haitian Revolution one of the most important events in the Americas and the world? How the values of the revolution remain essential to understand the goals of social justice today? Introduction “[In Silencing the Past] Trouillot suggested that the Haitian Revolution was (and in many ways remains) an “unthinkable” event: that the idea of… Continue reading An Unthinkable History: The Haitian Revolution as a Non-Event (Pages 70-83)

Overview: Inspired by the sources explored during the semester and your reflections written in class you will create with your group a physical or digital zine. A zine is a noncommercial original magazine usually devoted to specialized and often marginalized subject matter. The zine you will create in this class will be an interdisciplinary exploration of Afro-Latinidades.… Continue reading Zine Workshop