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Dec 11, 2024
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WMST 2050 - Women Warriors of the Afro-Latina DiasporaALCS 2050 This course provides a thorough overview of the historical, cultural, and social contributions of Blacks to Latin America and the Caribbean. This course explores Black Women contributions, particularly in terms of their significant historical, cultural, and socio-political efforts that are all but unnoticed in mainstream historical documentation. This course is solidly grounded in the initiation, development and expansion of Afro Latin American and Caribbean Black Women literary efforts, trends, and styles that greatly influence the current Afro-Descendant Movement in Latin America and the Caribbean. It also examines the experiences, worldviews, and struggles for social justice of Afro-Latin American Women through the study of personal essay/autobiography, oral history, poetry/spoken word, literature, film, visual art, theory, historical and philosophical scholarship, and other interdisciplinary genres. Our focus is on understanding the knowledges, creative expressions, experiences of oppression and resistance, and complexity of Women Warriors of the Afro-Latina Diaspora, and multiracial women as individuals and as members of different communities or groups. A course rigorous in reading, writing, and self-reflection, we will reflect on a multitude of creative works and scholarship from diverse Women of Color perspectives. The major themes that interweave throughout the course are culture, identity, voice, representation, empowerment, privilege, oppression, healing, and social change. Love, heartbreak, and decolonization are also significant, related concepts that will frame our analysis this semester. In addition, we will engage knowledge from communities inside and outside of the university through various guest speakers, opportunities for participating in relevant community events, and an oral history project. (3)
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