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Summer I Colonial Blackness: Race and Identity in Colonial Spanish America

SPAN 5355/HIST 5355: Colonial Blackness: Race and Identity in the Spanish American Colonial World

 Summer 1 M-F 200-350, FL 114

CRN 35519

Black people have been part of the Spanish American colonial encounter from the outset, playing an essential role in the configuration of both societies and cultures of all Latin American peoples. Yet, their voices and agency have been concealed and distorted in the "literary" and textual expressions of the period. This course will examine the voices, agency and identity construction of the African descendants that emerge from archival documents, legal treatises, chronicles religious literature, poetry, and visual documents. We will explore the racial politics of Church and State and the evolution of racial constraints at key moments of the colonial period.

Part of the class will be devoted to the study of theoretical articles on the concept of race and issues of subjectivity, identity and racial construction. The course will have a paleography training component for those students interested in consulting Spanish American archives from the period, and have reading proficiency in the language. Class discussion and most of the readings will be in English (and translations whenever possible); however papers, and written assignments can be written in Spanish or English.

The course is designed to be cross-listed with other departments, but students that would like to pursue the Spanish Paleography training must register for the Spanish graduate credits.

Posted:
5/26/2015

Originator:
Sara Guengerich

Email:
sara.guengerich@ttu.edu

Department:
Classical and Modern Lang and Lit


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