A Twenty-First-Century Agenda for Teaching the History of Modern Afro-Latin America and the Caribbean
Author(s)
Pino, Julio Cesar
Abstract
While this historical field has grown in recent years, the history of Latin Americans of African descent since the abolition of slavery is often omitted or rarely studied in detail in most university curricula. This article outlines a systematic method for teaching this subject, which would include an undergraduate survey class as well as graduate classes. The curriculum should examine various forms of resistance, challenge the traditional definition of racism, and demonstrate the complexity of the social, political, and economic lives of blacks, mulattos, and mestizos.
