HIST136 PO
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Afro-Latin American (CP)
Course Title
Afro-Latin American (CP)
Description
This class traces how the anthropological study of African-descended people in the Americas shifted from scientific racism and notions of "savagery" to elevating "New World Africans" as exemplars of creolization, transculturation, acculturation, syncretism, and hybridity. The treatment of African-descended peoples as a historical community worthy of social scientific analysis set the stage for the development of Black Studies, African Studies, and African Diasporic Studies throughout the twentieth century. The second part of the class examines contemporary scholarship in the socio-cultural anthropology of African-descended communities, religious traditions, and musical genres
Course Attributes
PO Area 3 Requirement, PO Analyzing Difference, PO Community Partnership, PO Writing Intensive Req, Africana Studies, Anthropology, Chicanx-Latinx Studies, History, International Relations, Latin American Studies
Min
1
Max
1
Repeatable
No