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ANTH 282
Displaced Peoples of Latin Am

Credit:  3 hours.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria for a
Non-Western Cultures, and UIUC Social Sciences course.

(ANTH 231) Contemporary African American and Indigenous American people of Latin America constitute dynamic cultures that extend across national borders. Taken together, these two diaspora aggregations of people, one displaced in the Americas, the other displaced from Africa and Europe, provide evidence of extraordinary cultural, social, and ethnic endurance in the face of radical and relentless change. Course combines information on both African-American and Native-American cultures in ethnographic and comparative perspectives. Same as AFRO 282. Prerequisite: ANTH 103 or ANTH 182 or ANTH 230, or consent of instructor