WINTER INTENSIVE: Invierno Negro - 12hr Course - February 2022

Recorded Feb-March 2022

AfroLatinx Travel Presents

Invierno Negro Winter Intensive Course:

Wednesday, February 16th: Black and Afrodescendant Women in Latin America: History and Contemporary

-The Yellow Rose of Texas: Sexual and beauty currency and politics of desirability as survival

-Black Women documentarians

-Wet nurses and caretakers

-The nationalizing of Black femme aesthetics

-Womanhood denied to Black women

Wednesday, February 23rd: The Black and Afrodescendant Corpus, Resistance, emancipatory pathways and Affirmation of Personhood

-Self-emancipated Africaneity

-Negotiating hegemony and survival

-Haiti's Role in Liberating Latin America

-Black Military and Liberation Army

-Sports as Access and Social Mobility for Black Latin Americans

Wednesday, March 2nd: The Latinx Corporate and Media Industrial Complex and Appropriation of Afrodescendants

- Imagery of Latines in the U.S. through time and space

-How Latine has been constructed in the American (Americas) Imaginary

-Folkloric "scary" stories in Latin America centered in antiblackness and fear of Blackness

-The limits of blood quantum and the realities of lived experiences

-The intentional manufacturing and white-washing of Black cultural manifestations as national symbolism internally and externally

Wednesday, March 9th: Black and Afrodescendant Resistance, [diasporic] Communication and Migration Through Time and Space

-Current AfroLatin American Movements

-Historical Communication Afrodescendants maintained continentally

-Migration via access points created by and for Afrodescendants

-Forced migration via internal and external white hegemonic politics