How are ideas of belonging to the body politic defined in Latin America, the Caribbean, and within Spanish-speaking communities in the US? What are creole identities? Who is “Latin American,” “(Afro-)Latinx,” “Boricua,” “Chino,” “Indian,” etc.? Who constructs these terms and why? Who do they include and exclude? Why do we need these identity markers in the first place? Our course will engage with these questions by analyzing literary, historical, visual, and sonic productions from the Middle Ages to the present.
