11:15A-12:30P     MW     SE010


Above section meets with HIST F300

This course covers the broad history of African-descended peoples in
Latin America from their initial exploratory efforts to the era of
emancipation. While it is impossible to examine every experience that
took place in this vast geographic and historical expanse in one
semester, this course will attempt to engage representative examples
of the major issues affecting this region's Black inhabitants. Among
these are; evidence of African exploration in the pre-Columbian era,
the African presence in 15th century Spain and Portugal, Black
conquistadors and explorers, West and West Central African culture,
free people of color, women, the African-descended family, urban and
rural slavery, race and racism, music, literature, dance, slave
resistance, self-emancipation, manumission, African-based religions
and festival arts, Black participation in the Latin American wars of
independence, and Black abolitionists.

Readings: A course packet containing all assigned readings will be
available at TIS Bookstore.