AFRS-3300-01: Blackness in Latin America

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1. Find a news piece on a political, social, cultural, or economic occurrence related to the Afro-Latino world that took place outside of the United States.

• Time frame: Between the 1950s and today
• Acceptable news media:
  • newspapers
  • reputable blogs
  • reputable podcasts or radio reporting
  • (reputable = quality reporting; trusted authors/ journalists/ news organizations; citations and/or references to sources)

2. Find & read an academic journal article that is relevant to the event you chose and can help you to analyze it.

• Remember you can:
  • apply an academic journal article even if it’s not specifically about the event you are planning on writing about
  • use the article’s conceptual or theoretical material even if it does not speak exactly to your chosen topic

3. Write a paper that interprets the occurrence you researched and its significances as related to understanding any of the themes discussed so far in this course

• Some questions you might address include:
  • What does the event reveal about the shifting, or on the converse stagnant, position of Afro-Latinos in the society in which the event took place?
  • What can be assessed from the event you chose about the ways the Afro-Latino community is viewed & engaged with?
• The bulk of the paper should focus on the analysis, NOT summarizing the event or re-summarizing the academic article
• Word Doc, 5-6 pp. doubled spaced, Times New Roman or Cambria 12, 1-inch margins.