AFRS 388 - Peninsular Seminar

1 unit(s)

Topic for 2013/14a: Africa Begins in the Pyrenees: Race and Ethnicity in Spain. This course aims to deepen our understanding of how racialization, and specifically the idea of Africa, have manifested in the Spanish national imaginary through literary, visual and socio-political discourses from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Course discussions map out the contradictory social and aesthetic discourses that have attempted to define the Spaniard, and by extension, its Other. Our theorizations probe residual ethno-religious notions of race from the Christian, Jewish and Muslim co-habitation, the logics of assimilation used to discipline people of Roma descent, and the racial ideologies and practices employed to frame regional separatism, political groups, colonization in Africa and immigration. Course discussions and all written work are in Spanish. This course may be repeated for credit when the topic changes. Ms. Woods.

Prerequisite(s): permission of the instructor.

One 2-hour period.