HIST136 PO - Afro-Latin American (CP)

When Offered: Last offered spring 2019.
Instructor(s): A. Mayes
Credit: 1

This class examines the history of socio-cultural anthropology and contemporary anthropology regarding African-descended peoples, social movements, and communities in Latin America and the Caribbean in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. One goal is to probe the continued relevance of analytical frameworks such as creolization, transculturation, acculturation, and Black diaspora studies. This class is a Community Partnership course for which students are required to either a) work with a community partner through the semester or b) conduct research and participate in a service opportunity during the spring break. Previously offered as HIST145 PO.

Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
Area 3; Writing Intensive; Analyzing Difference

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