SOC 336 Afro-Latinx: Race, Culture and Transnationalism

3 Credit(s) DPDS

This course will provide a local and global understanding of Latinx persons living in the United States, with a specific focus on Afro-Latinx groups. Afro-Latinx people represent a portion of the significant growth of the U.S. Latinx population in the latter half of the twentieth century and have a unique experience within the Latinx population as they straddle racial lines in the U.S. as both Black and Latinx. This course focuses on how issues such as immigration, racism, language, media and popular culture, history, U.S. and European colonization and imperialism, gender, and sexuality shape the cultural and social experiences of Afro-Latinx groups from the Caribbean, Central America, South America and the United States. Investigating these experiences will provide a clear understanding of what brings Afro-Latinx people to the U.S. and to specific locations once they have arrived and settled here. Three lecture hours per week.
Prerequisite: SOC110 or permission of department chairperson.