AFST310

This course is an in-depth study of the ethnic relationships, social status and attitudes among citizens of African and non-African descent in Contemporary Latin American Nations. The cosmology of being black in Latin America and the Caribbean includes the nature of speech, talk, discourse, writing, all other systems of human communication and behaviors, custom, food, music, aspirations, goals, religion, gender and social class. Focus will be placed on how blackness transcents the boundaries imposed for more than five centuries of cultural transformation since the African Diaspora to Latin America.