Afro-Latin American and Caribbean Studies
2th Cohort (2020-2021)
MODE: VIRTUAL
Specialization: 40 credits, 360 lecture hours
International course: 9 credits, 90 hours/lecture
Duration: September 2020 to June 2021
The accreditation and certification of the Specialization and the International Course will be carried out by the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO) and the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO Brazil)
GENERAL COORDINATION
Mara Viveros Vigoya (National University of Colombia)
Nilma Gomes (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Rita Segato (University of Brasilia, Brazil – National University of San Martín, Argentina)
ACADEMIC COORDINATION
Karina Bidaseca (University of Buenos Aires and National University of San Martín, Argentina)
In Latin America and the Caribbean, coloniality is a constitutive and specific element of a power structure in which the imposition of an ethno-racial classification on its population played a key role. Becoming aware of this coloniality of power, which operates in macro-social, micro-social, and subjective spheres, requires addressing the epistemologies of Afro-America and the racial question as a colonial historical invention whose effects continue to influence the social destiny and daily lives of those who inhabit this region. In turn, recognizing power as a web of relationships that inextricably intertwines at least three systems of oppression—race, gender, and class—and the various matrices that shaped the “historical alterities” derived from racialization in each nation, implies offering a new perspective on these relationships and promoting more effective actions, based on the specificities of Afro-Latin American and Caribbean thought and creativity. Finally, it involves understanding and confronting the processes of discrimination, exclusion, criminalization, genocide, femicide, and juvenicide of Afro-descendant populations and participating in the creation of conditions for the production of their own knowledge about these processes, and of appropriate strategies to fight against these forms of violence.
The processes of oppression and racist violence inherent in colonialism have been laid bare by the global protest movement sparked by demands for justice following the murder of George Floyd by four white police officers in Minneapolis. It is worth remembering that this death occurred within the social context of the Covid-19 pandemic, which exposed the disproportionate ethnic and racial distribution of its victims in every country.
Floyd's murder transformed his last words into a rallying cry and his image into a symbol of a historic struggle that has been revived and linked to the denunciations of structural racism made by various Afro-Latin American movements. In some contexts, with varying levels, intensity, scope, and outcomes, these movements have also driven the development and implementation of public policies to combat racism.
This training program seeks to account for the growth in the academic sphere of the intellectual and political organization of Black Latin Americans and Caribbeans and of an Afro-oriented theoretical and intellectual production that is investigating and confronting racism in its multiple dimensions and levels, from a critical and emancipatory perspective.
- To publicize and promote research on theories, histories, philosophies, knowledge, arts and cosmologies of African heritage in the Latin American and Caribbean continent.
- To provide conceptual and historical elements that allow for critical and intersectional approaches to addressing the racialization processes of Afro-descendant populations and their effects on social and daily life.
- Promote intersectional and situated analyses that allow understanding of the complexity of the existence of Afro-descendant women, men and LGBTIQ people and encourage the recognition of their rights.
- To train and empower for the design, monitoring and evaluation of actions and policies aimed at guaranteeing the human rights of Afro-descendant populations in the face of criminalization, genocide, femicide and black youth murder.
- Analyze the international conventions, agreements and resolutions that recognize and protect the rights of Afro populations within the framework of the Decade for People of African Descent.
The specialization and the International Course are aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students; teachers at all levels; activists and members of Afro-descendant organizations, trade unions, social movements and political parties; public officials; press workers; members and managers of non-governmental organizations and professionals interested in Afro-Latin American and Caribbean studies.
The specialization in Afro-Latin American and Caribbean Studies will last 8 months and requires for its accreditation the completion of: an international course and two optional virtual seminars from the curriculum; a writing support workshop; and the preparation of a final monograph.
The international course consists of lectures given by the program coordinators and the teaching team. Accreditation requires the completion and approval of a final project, as well as participation in at least 80% of the activities and assignments proposed by the instructors.
The specialization and international course will take place between September 2020 and June 2021.
Students in the specialization and international course will have the support of academic tutors who will accompany them through the virtual seminars and guide them in completing their final projects.
Once the seminars have concluded, students will have four months to submit their final project. If they still need to complete a credit, they will also have four months to do so.
The specialization and international course are certified by CLACSO and FLACSO Brazil.
The specialization certifies 480 hours/chair of work; the international course 120 hours/chair.
CLARIFICATION: Those who enroll in the full specialization should not enroll in the International Course separately.
The courses may be taught in either Spanish or Portuguese, both official languages of CLACSO.“Afro-Latin American and Caribbean Studies”
Abstract: Thinking about Latin America and the Caribbean means thinking about race completely outside the framework of multiculturalism and the political identities of the globalized spectrum, which constructed the myth of “race” as ethnicity or substantivized cultural difference founded on separation. “Race” in our continent is a product of racialization of colonial origin that varies according to different national contexts. There are three main axes through which the capitalist power structure classifies people: work, sex, and race. However, it is the category of race that is the structuring center of coloniality-modernity. From this common ground, the keynote lectures will address topics related to being Afro-descendant in Latin America and the Caribbean in the fields of history, philosophy, religion, the arts, law, gender relations, politics, violence, and education, among others.
Abstract: The racialization of power relations between newly assigned social and geo-cultural identities was the foundation and fundamental legitimizing reference point for the Eurocentric nature of the power structure, both material and intersubjective. It was the elites who produced the hegemonic discourses that shaped the matrix of otherness that constitutes the nation.
Coordination: Santiago Arboleda Quiñónez (Andean University Simón Bolívar, Ecuador) and Saúl Hernández Rosales (National Higher Autonomous School of Fine Arts of Peru, Venezuela).
Abstract: This seminar explores the contributions, narratives, articulations, tensions, and alternatives of Black feminisms. It addresses the diverse contributions of Black women's movements in Latin America and the Caribbean, the struggle of racialized bodies against the coloniality of power, knowledge, and gender, through dialogues that, from an intersectional perspective, propose confronting multiple oppressions. Finally, it provides tools to delve deeper, from Afro-descendant perspectives, into the voices, silences, resistances, and re-existences.
Coordination: Rosa Campoalegre Septien (CIPS, Cuba) and Claudia Miranda (Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Abstract: The concept of race, as a socially constructed attribute, still functions as a parameter for assigning people within the social structure. Affirmative action emerges as a strategy to combat racism and can be implemented in all areas of civil society, as it primarily aims to dismantle the social structure that places people of African descent in economically and symbolically disadvantaged positions. This course is based on the epistemological approach of Afrocentricity, in which the peoples of Africa and the diaspora must be at the center of the study of social phenomena, and therefore, the protagonists of their own history.
Coordination: Anna Canavarro Benite (Federal University of Goiás, Brazil) and Anny Ocoró Loango (Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences, Argentina)
Abstract: The seminar aims to discuss current debates on Afro-Latin American and Caribbean history from critical perspectives with a focus on racial justice and human rights.
Recognizing the three systems of oppression—race, gender, and class—and the various matrices that shaped “historical alterities” stemming from the racialization of bodies places justice at the center of the stage. It entails understanding and confronting the processes of discrimination, exclusion, criminalization, genocide, femicide, and juvenicide against Afro-descendant populations, and participating in creating the conditions for producing our own knowledge about these processes, as well as strategies for struggle and emancipatory pedagogies against these systems of necropolitics.
Coordination: Jackeline Aparecida Ferreira Romio (Universidade de San Paulo, Brazil), Tarsila Flores (National Mechanism for Prevention and Combat of Torture, Brazil), Cidinalva SCNeris (Universidade Federal do Maranhão) and Katia Regis (Universidade Federal do Maranhão)
Summary: This workshop is a training space designed to guide the development of the final monograph for the specialization. It will support students in defining their object of analysis, translating it into a viable research problem, constructing a work plan, developing argumentative frameworks, and establishing analytical conclusions. These tasks will be carried out individually and collectively through peer exchange and with the workshop instructor, following a discussion forum format. The workshop's objective is to produce a draft of the final specialization paper. The final monograph may be written in Spanish, Portuguese, or English.
SPECIALIZATION AND INTERNATIONAL COURSE - COHORT 2020-2021
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International Course “Afro-Latin American and Caribbean Studies” |
Optional seminar "Black Feminisms" |
Optional seminar "Confronting epistemic racism" |
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Mar 2021 |
Optional seminar "Racism and Nation" |
Optional seminar "Afro-descendants, Racial Justice and Human Rights" |
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Workshop to support the preparation of Final Projects |
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CM PlenosIf you belong to a Full Member Center of CLACSO.
CM Associates: Yes You belong to a CLACSO Associated Centre.
No linkIf you DO NOT has any of these links with CLACSO.
| One payment |
New discounts for payments made before 14/09 |
Payment in 3 installments | |
| CM Plenos | $500 | $400 | USD 660 (3 x USD 220) |
| CM Associates | $600 | $500 | USD 870 (3 x USD 290) |
| No link | $800 | $600 | USD 1080 (3 x USD 360) |
In all cases, payment can be made by credit card, deposit or bank transfer.
CM PlenosIf you belong to a CLACSO Full Member Center
CM Associates: Yes You belong to a CLACSO Associated Centre
No linkIf you DO NOT has any of these links with CLACSO
| One payment |
New discounts when paying by 14/9 |
Payment in 3 installments | |
| CM Plenos | $200 | $150 | USD 270 (3 x USD 90) |
| CM Associates | $250 | $200 | USD 360 (3 x USD 120) |
| No link | $320 | $250 | USD 450 (3 x USD 150) |
In all cases, payment can be made by credit card, deposit or bank transfer.
The accreditation and certification of the Specialization and the International Course will be carried out by the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO)
If the student decides not to enroll in the Specialization or International Course before its formal start date, they may request a refund of their tuition fees. CLACSO will retain the equivalent of 10% for administrative costs.
Once the course has begun, if the student has paid the full tuition, they may retake only one elective seminar in the following session. This policy does not apply to International Courses. In all cases, the amount paid will not be refunded.
In exceptional cases , within the first two months of the specialization, students may request to withdraw from the cohort and resume it the following year. In all cases, the reasons for the request must be submitted in writing. No requests will be accepted after two months from the start of the course. Under no circumstances will the payment made be refunded.
The Specialization and the International Course are certified by CLACSO and FLACSO Brazil.
The Specialization certifies 480 hours/chair of work; the International Course 120 hours/chair.
For any other questions , please contact [email protected]
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