HIST 843 - Performance and Race in Latin American & Caribbean History

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Trinity College

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Race has historically been a fundamental category in the historical analysis of the past in the Americas. The Americas since 1492 has been a cauldron of racial mixing of Europeans, Africans and Indigenous peoples. The process, through colonialism and after Independence has been studied from different angles, from the relevance of race for social mobility to its role in communal solidarity and rebellions, and its relevance to national identities, official and subaltern. This is course will look at the relationship between race and diffierent kinds of individual and collective behaviors in the history of the Americas involving the performance of music, rituals, festivals, theatre, dance, and sports. The general questions addressed are: what conceptions of race are deployed in performances at given historical periods How does the context matter if is the colonial period or after Independence What are the answers if the regions contextualized are different Mexico Trinidad Uruguay How does gender affect answers to these questions 1.00 units, Seminar

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1.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.Trincoll.edu

Phone Number:

(860) 297-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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