LATS 427
Racial and Religious Mixture
Last Offered Spring 2016
Division II Writing Skills Exploring Diversity Initiative
Cross-listed AMST 327 / REL 314 / AFR 427
This course is not offered in the current catalog

Class Details

The very term “mixture” implies that two or more distinct substances have been brought together. Distinctions of race and religion are social fictions; yet, the lived ramifications of these social fictions involve tense struggles over the boundaries of racial and religious communities. These boundaries are not just ideas but also practices. In the history of the Americas, mixed racial and religious identities and experiences have more often been the result of violent clashes than romantic encounters. Still, the romanticization of the New World as a geography that makes such mixtures possible reaches back to the earliest days of Spanish conquest in the Americas. This course critically reconsiders varying ways that racial and religious mixtures have been imagined, defined, challenged, negotiated, and survived under imaginative and legal rubrics of mestizaje, creolization, transculturation, passing, syncretism, religious hybridity, and mixed race studies.
The Class: Format: mostly discussion
Limit: 19
Expected: 10
Class#: 3770
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: participation, short writing exercises, a 3-page first essay, a 5- to 8-page second essay, and a 10- to 14-page final paper
Prerequisites: none
Enrollment Preferences: seniors, concentrators, majors, those with prior relevant coursework
Distributions: Division II Writing Skills Exploring Diversity Initiative
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
LATS 427 Division II AMST 327 Division II REL 314 Division II AFR 427 Division II
DPE Notes: Focusing on how different peoples have critically theorized and made meaning about and out of racial and religious differences and interconnections, this Difference, Power, and Equity course investigates the ways that knowledge about mixture and difference--and their roles in hierarchical distributions of social and political power--have been critically constructed and transformed.
Attributes: AMST Comp Studies in Race, Ethnicity, Diaspora

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