Black and Latinx in Literature and Visual Culture
Examines Black Latinx experience through literature, visual culture, and theory, exploring African American and Latinx convergences and racial paradigms in the Americas.
Summary
Past student reviews · Todd Bender
The workload included writing assignments for every class session, along with numerous other tasks that the reviewer found excessive.
What you’ll be able to do
Know major forms, techniques, social conditions, values, genres, as well as cultural, aesthetic, philosophical and ideological factors that have shaped the history of Black and Latinx literatures.
Appraise and contrast literary approaches to depicting a variety of social, cultural, and historical events and experiences.
Understand multiple interpretations, question textual meanings and significance, discern and integrate divergent and contradictory perspectives, identify and question assumptions, and assess evidence and methods.
Generate original ideas and texts, conduct thought experiments, and answer critical questions about and in a range of genres and media.
Write original, coherent, and compelling arguments that push beyond summary to analysis that is grounded in textual evidence and offer independent and critical thinking in clear prose that meets expectations for grammatical correctness.
Develop empathy by learning about the experiences of others and develop self-awareness of one’s own positionality and views, and to employ this consciousness in participating with others in the classroom. Create productive patterns of study and work for yourself based on this growing self-awareness.
Source: UW Guide 1· UW Guide 2
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Prerequisites
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the class
Past student reviews · Todd Bender
One former student described the course as having an absurd syllabus filled with busy-work, advising students who dislike such tasks to avoid it.
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2025: 3.42 GPA, 75.0% A/AB (n=12 letter grades).
difficulty & workload
Past student reviews · Todd Bender
The workload included writing assignments for every class session, along with numerous other tasks that the reviewer found excessive.
Past student reviews · Todd Bender
A past student found the class frustrating due to the volume of busy-work and strongly recommended against taking it if possible.
Topics
- Racial paradigms in the Americas and differences between US and Latin American contexts.
- Decoloniality, intersectional feminisms, borderlands, and diaspora.
- Anti-Blackness and its counter-narratives in Chicanx and Latinx cultural production.
Skills
- Analyze and appraise literary approaches, question textual meanings, and assess evidence and methods.
- Generate original ideas and texts across various genres and media.
- Write original, coherent arguments grounded in textual evidence with clear prose.
- Develop empathy, self-awareness of positionality, and productive study habits.
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