Calendar:
Week 1
8/26 Synchronous zoom session
Course Introduction
On colonialism
Week 2
9/2 Synchronous zoom session
Césaire, Aimé. Discourse on Colonialism. Monthly Review Press, 2000.
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Blog post 1 is due before class.
Indigenous cultures + down came “the West”
Week 3
9/9 Synchronous zoom session
Robiou Lamarche, Sebastián. “Tainos: Mythology and Cosmology.” Tainos and Caribs: The Aboriginal Cultures of the Antilles. Editorial Punto y coma. 2019.
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Blog post 2 is due before class.
Oral/Slide Presentations on Chapter 7 (Pages 104-117)
Recommended events:
9/9
Black and Latino Studies Department Open House 1:00 pm
Meeting ID: 849 5519 6946
Passcode: BLS2021
9/14
Extra-credit opportunity with 300-word reflection:
“Latina, Latino, Latinx: What’s in a name?” Round Table 6:00 pm
Meeting ID: 818 9686 9208
Passcode: BLS2021
9/16 No classes scheduled
Week 4
Asynchronous screening
Even the Rain. (Icíar Bollaín, 2010)
9/23 Synchronous zoom session
Solnit, David. “Reflections From Bolivia: Water Wars, Climate Wars and Change from Below.” Upsidedownworld.org. https://upsidedownworld.org/archives/bolivia/reflections-from-bolivia-water-wars-climate-wars-and-change-from-below/
Anandakugan, Nithyani. “Hopes For a Rainy Day: A History of Bolivia’s Water Crisis.” Harvard International Review https://hir.harvard.edu/hopes-for-a-rainy-day-a-history-of/
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Blog post 3 is due before class.
Oral/Slide Presentations
Slavery and its afterlives, toward black liberation and expression
Week 5
Asynchronous Screening
Egalite for All: Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution (Noland Walker, 2009)
9/30 Synchronous zoom session
Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. “An Unthinkable History: The Haitian Revolution as a Non-Event.” Silencing the Past: Power and Production of History. Beacon Press, 2015.
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Blog post 4 is due before class.
Oral/Slide Presentations
Week 6
10/7 Synchronous zoom session
Andrews, George Reid. “An Exterminating Bolt of Lightning.” Afro-Latin America. Oxford University Press, 2004.
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Blog post 5 is due before class.
Oral/Slide Presentations
Recommended Event: Extra-credit opportunity with 250-word reflection
Puerto Rico Taino Movements: Sherina Feliciano and Yarimar Bonilla in Dialogue
Register Here: https://centropr.nationbuilder.com/puerto_ricos_taino_movements
Week 7
10/14 Asynchronous session
The midterm project is due.
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Self-reflection
Week 8
10/21 In-person session (Room B-Vert 9 150)
Davies, Darién and Judith Michelle Williams. “Pan-Africanism, Negritude, and the Currency of Blackness.” Beyond Slavery: The Multilayered Legacy of Africans in Latin America and the Caribbean. Rowman and Littlefield, 2007.
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Blog post 6 is due before class.
Oral/Slide Presentations
Recommended Events:
10/21
1:00 pm Fringe Boricua Filmmaking in NYC: Reimagining the Queer Archive
6:00 pm Reading Convo with Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Week 9
Asynchronous screening
La playa D.C. (Juan Andrés Arango Garcia, 2012)
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Black in Latin America: Cuba, The New Revolution (Henry Lois Gates, 2011)
10/28 Synchronous zoom session
Tickner, Arlene. “Aquí en el Ghetto: Hip-Hop in Colombia, Cuba, and Mexico.” Latin American Politics and Society, Fall, 2008, Vol. 50, No. 3 (Fall, 2008), pp. 121-146 https://www.jstor.org/stable/30130878
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Blog post 7 is due before class.
Oral/Slide Presentations
Week 10
11/4 Synchronous Zoom Session
Rivera, Petra. “Cocolos Modernos: Salsa, Reggaetón, and Puerto Rico’s Cultural Politics of Blackness.” Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17442222.2013.768459
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Blog post 8 is due before class.
Oral/Slide Presentations
Contemporary Indigenous Struggles
Week 11
Asynchronous Screening
The Uprising of Dignity: The Zapatista Movement in Chiapas/Mexico (Manchester Zapatista Collective, 2016)
11/11 Synchronous Zoom Session
EZLN-CCRI. Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle (Sexta Declaración de la Selva Lacandona), 2005.
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Blog post 9 is due before class.
Oral/Slide Presentations
Latin Americans in the US: displacement, migration, and cultural hybridity
Week 12
11/18 In-person session (Room B-Vert 9 150)
Morales, Ed. “Raza Interrupted. New Hybrid Nationalisms.” Latinx The New Force in American Politics and Culture. Verso, 2018.
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Blog post 10 is due before class.
Oral/Slide Presentations
11/25 No classes scheduled
Extra-credit Opportunities with 250-word reflection
.Thursday 11/18 at 1pm on Zoom – “La Gran Colombia,” unpacking the history of unity and independence in South America, and the consequences of those historical events for the region today — featuring our fantastic colleagues Mark Rice (History), Tshombe Miles (BLS) and Enrique Desmond Arias (Marxe).
Week 13
12/2 In-person session (Room B-Vert 9 150)
Cornejo Villavicencio, Karla. “Ground Zero.” The Undocumented Americans. One World, 2020.
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Blog post 11 (optional) is due before class.
Oral/Slide Presentations
Week 14
12/9 In-person session (Room B-Vert 9 150)
Acevedo, Elizabeth. “Afro-Latina.” https://youtu.be/tPx8cSGW4k8
Frohman, Denise. “Accents.” https://youtu.be/84ZcT1jDCjk
Wrapping-up
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Collective final reflections
Final project
12/21 until 11:59 pm via email.
Please send your project as a Word, Goggle, or Pages document; as an audio file, or send the social media links.
Final grade submission deadline
12/27
