#  AFRAMER 219A: Race and Ethnicity in Latin America 

 





 Semester:   Fall 

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 Year offered:  2019 

 

 

 

**Professor Alejandro de la Fuente.** This yearlong seminar introduces students to current questions and debates in the study of race and ethnicity in Latin America, from the colonial period to the present. Our seminar answers the call, issued by anthropologist Peter Wade (1997), to produce scholarship integrating the study of Africans and their descendants, along with indigenous peoples, as participants in shared processes of racial formation, nation making, and state building. Through the systematic comparison of several cases, the course discusses how ideas of race have shaped processes of nation and state formation in Latin America, shaping opportunities for mobilization and public policies; how racial identities have been formed and invoked for different cultural and political purposes; and how ideas of race and ethnicity have contributed to the stratification of Latin American societies, which are among the most unequal in the world.

 

 



 

 See also:- [ Fall 2019 - Spring 2020 ](/course-categories/2019-2020)