Amerindian and Afro-Descendant Cultures
A.Y. 2025/2026
Learning objectives
In a diachronic perspective spanning the Spanish conquest and the Atlantic slave trade, the course aspires to provide cultural-historical tools to frame some contemporary cultural productions (literature, film, textiles) through which indigenous and Afro-descendant communities affirm, translate and reconfigure their ethnic identity.
Expected learning outcomes
Students receive an articulated picture of the trajectories of cultural configuration of indigenous and Afro-descendant identities in Latin America.
Skills
Students acquire the ability to analyze various cultural products (texts, films, music, textiles) through the theoretical-methodological tools of decolonial studies and indigenous epistemologies.
Skills
Students acquire the ability to analyze various cultural products (texts, films, music, textiles) through the theoretical-methodological tools of decolonial studies and indigenous epistemologies.
Lesson period: First semester
Assessment methods: Esame
Assessment result: voto verbalizzato in trentesimi
Single course
This course can be attended as a single course.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
First semester
Course syllabus
The syllabus is shared with the following courses:
- [C23-926](https://www.unimi.it/en/ugov/of/af2026000c23-926)
- [C23-926](https://www.unimi.it/en/ugov/of/af2026000c23-926)
Modules or teaching units
Part A and B
L-LIN/06 - LATIN AMERICAN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES - University credits: 6
Lessons: 40 hours
Part C
L-LIN/06 - LATIN AMERICAN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES - University credits: 3
Lessons: 20 hours
Professor(s)