Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Variable Title: Race, Culture, and Transculturation in Latin America
Prerequisite: HISP-S 328 or Consent of the Department
Students who have passed S324 also qualify for this class, HISP-S 474. Please email Lisa McAuley for permission to enroll at lismcaul@iu.edu

This course explores the history and the uses of race, culture, transculturation, and hybridity in Latin America. We often assume that these terms have a similar meaning in the U.S. and Latin America. Yet, as we will see in this class, words such as black, white, mulatto, mestizaje or raza have evolved in ways that speak to very different circumstances of colonization and postcolonial nation formation in the North and the South. We will study the ways people in Latin America have thought about race and culture in the past and today, through a variety of texts, paintings, photographs, songs, and films from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and Mexico. Course requirements are reading responses, one presentation, two short papers and one final research project.

Class taught in Spanish.

HISP-S 474     #30678     9:45A-11:00A      TR       GA 0007       Prof. Anke Birkenmaier

Note: Above class meets with HISP-S 498 #13595           

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