LALS309
Visions of Freedom Before 1619 in the Iberian Black Atlantic
Subject code
LALS
Course Number
309
Department(s)
Course Long Title
Visions of Freedom Before 1619 in the Iberian Black Atlantic
Cross Listed Courses
Description
Black Africans affected the Atlantic culture immediately after 1492. Their words and deeds impacted the institutions of the time in Spain, Portugal, and their overseas empires in the early modern period. Black people transmitted the cultural practices of their African native lands through the Diaspora, but they also were protagonists of the European Renaissance wherever they lived. Palenques of cimarrones–settlements of self-liberated Blacks–dismantled slavery and helped Blacks build a new conception and practice of human freedom. Black men and women wrote and sang, and were represented in the literary works of Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Inca Garcilaso, Guamán Poma de Ayala, and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. This course will be taught in English.
Modes of Inquiry
Historical and Social Inquiry [HS], Analysis and Critique [AC]
Writing Credit
No writing designation
INDS Program Relationship
IDAF - AFR Program, IDLL - LALS Program
GEC This Course Belongs To
-
Class Restriction
Exclude First Years
Offering Frequency
Offered with varying frequency
Recommended Background
AFR 100
HISP 205 or above
HISP 205 or above