FALL 2025  Contemporary Black Literatures BLS 3002  ETRA, Tuesday & Thursday 2:30PM-3:45PM  Dr. Rojo Robles Prof. Robles  How do Black writers reimagine identity, belonging, and resistance in the 21st century? This course is dedicated to exploring Black literature in global contexts, engaging poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and hybrid texts that illuminate the cultural flows and political struggles shaping contemporary Black diasporic life. We will examine Afro-Latinx, Caribbean, and Black Atlantic poetics, Black Caribbean soundscapes, speculative Black futures, and Afrofuturism to see how language, music, and storytelling push against colonial legacies and envision liberated worlds.  Focusing on experimental narratives and radical Black aesthetics, … Continue reading Fall 25 Electives are here!

Join us for the Addison Gayle Seminar in conversation with Dr. Roderick A. Ferguson (Yale University). A PDF of his essay, “Queer and Trans Liberation and the Critique of Fascism, or When S.T.A.R. Met Césaire and the Frankfurt School” is available here, if you’d like to read it in advance. April 18, 2024 6-8PM NVC 14-285 Continue reading Queer and Trans Liberation! April 18, 6-8PM

BLACK AND LATINO STUDIES ELECTIVES FALL 2024 BLS 3015              Black Economic Development       Arthur Lewin         Th 6:05pm-9:00pm         BLS 3024              Women of Color                    Keisha Allan                   TR 10:45am-12:00pm    BLS 3038              Caribbean Literature           Rebecca Salois               TR 2:30pm-3:45pm       BLS 3050              Race and Global Inequity             Karanja Carroll        TR 4:10pm-5:25pm         BLS 3085              Mixed Race Literature             Rafael Walker           TR 2:30pm-3:45pm         BLS 4900              Seminar Black and Latino Studies      Shelly Eversley     F 11:10am-2:05pm         LTS 3007               Puerto Rican Culture                    Rojo Robles Mejias         W 6:05pm-9:00pm          LTS 3021               U.S Mexican Border               Lizbeth de la Cruz Santana         MW 10:45am-12:00pm LTS 3050               Race and Global Inequality    Karanja Carroll                 TR 4:10pm-5:25pm         LTS 3059               Latin American Fiction in the U.S.  Lizbeth de la Cruz Santana MW 12:50pm-2:05pm   LTS 3100               Latino Communities in the U.S.           Gustavo … Continue reading Fall 24 Electives!