ASRC 1834

FWS: Writing AfroLatinidad: Race, Gender, and Transnationalism

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Course information provided by the 2026-2027 Catalog.

According to the 2025 U.S Census, Latino/a/x communities are the fastest-growing population of residents. Yet how do we define Latino? Who is not included in such terminology? This course complicates the stability of race, ethnicity, and nationality by focusing on the lives of African descendants across the Americas. Through weekly discussion posts, short argumentative essays, and a final research paper, each class presents the possibilities and limitations of Afro-Latinidad. Drawing from Ileanna Rodriguez-Silva, Carole Boyce Davies, Paulette Ramsey, and Winston James, we will learn how factory workers, politicians, and artists use writing as a vehicle not simply to understand themselves but to contend with the injustices they face. The course's purpose is to consider what writing reveals to us about ourselves and others.

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