SPA 524 - APPROACHES TO DIVERSITY IN THE MODERN WORLD: UNDERSTANDING LATINX CULTURES

College of Arts & Sciences

Credit(s): 3

This course focuses on deepening our understanding of the ways in which race and ethnicity has shaped the Americas from the colonial era to the present. This course will focus on race and ethnicity as socially constructed categories, and on the ideology of race and diversity in Latin America and the US (past and present). We will treat race and ethnicity as dynamic processes that shape all social institutions, belief systems, and individual experiences. The primary focus is on the historical and social relationships among European, Native Americans, and Africans; and also, on the present-day experiences of American-born peoples whose ancestry originated in Latin America, or who immigrated to the US from a Spanish or Portuguese speaking country.

Approved for Distance Learning.