SOC 154-Spring2021-Prof. César J. Ayala

SPRING 2024

SOC154

RACE AND ETHNICITY IN LATIN AMERICA

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SYLLABUS

Prof. César J. Ayala
Office: Haines Hall 245
Office Hours:: Fridays 10 am to 12 am (please email first to confirm you are coming), or by appointment (email me to agree on a time).
Email: cjayala@soc.ucla.edu
Telephone: 310-267-4306 (Office, forwards to my cell)
Cell: 310-853-3627

Zoom Link to Office Hours

Course Description: This course looks at Race and Ethnicity in Latin America.

The societies of Latin America all experienced the conquest, subjugation, and in some cases the extermination of the native pre-Columbian populations. All societies of Latin America experienced the importation of enslaved Africans during colonial times. But while these two large, long-term processes of conquest and enslavement are common to all Latin American societies, the resulting configurations of racial inequality bequeathed by them vary considerably from one society to another. In this course we will examine processes of race formation and demographic variation in the patterns of the slave trade and in the survival of the pre-Columbian populations. We will examine at least three examples of societies with distinct patterns of racial stratification. We will look at whether racial categories are binary or function in a continuum, how racial minorities mobilize to obtain resources, and we will examine the surprising case of African-diasporic populations mobilizing as “first-peoples” in some Latin American Societies.

Learning Objectives

Establish basic familiarity with the large scale, long term processes that led to race and ethnicity formation in Latin America since the European Conquest which began in the late 15th century.
Acquire knowledge of the relation between race formation and systems of coerced labor created in the Americas based on indigenous, African and Asian populations.
Learn to compare and contrast processes of race formation and levels of racial inequality in the United States and various Latin American societies.
Learn to differentiate categorical racial and ethnic systems, on the one hand, with more fluid systems based on processes of meztizaje on the other hand.

This quarter we will look at four cases: Puerto Rico, Cuba, Brazil, and Colombia.

TA: Valentina Floegel
Email: vfloegel@g.ucla.edu
Office Hours: Wednesday 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm (PT) over Zoom
Zoom link: https://ucla.zoom.us/my/vfloegel or by appointment (via email)

Lectures:

8am-9:15am

DODD 146

Evaluation:

The course grade will be based on four components:

(1)   Attendance and participation in lectures: 20%
(2)   Attendance and participation in discussion sections: 20%
(3)   Midterm: 30%
(4)   Final: 30%

Course Expectation and Class Attendance Policy:

Students must attend lectures and class discussion sections. The grade for "lecture participation" will be based on weekly quizzes on the content of the lectures via the CCLE page. Your TA will specify the requirements for discussion section.

Preliminary Reading before Lecture 1

Statement of UCLA Faculty Senate Academic Freedom Committee on Quoting Offensive Material.

Randall Kennedy, "Introduction" in Randall Kennedy, Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word (New York: Pantheon Books, 2022): ix-xlii.

Randall Kennedy & Eugene Volokh, "The New Taboo; Quoting Epithets in the Classroom and Beyond." (2021). . Capital University Law Review, 49(1), 1-65.

Reading Schedule:

Week 1:	Heterogeneity
	Ayala-McCormick, Diego. 2021. "The Myth of the Latin American Race Monolith: Notes for Future Comparative Research on Racial Inequality in the Americas." Review of Black Political Economy 48(8): 381-409.
	Hirschman, Charles. 2004. "The Origins and Demise of the Concept of Race." Population and Development Review 30(3):385-415. [31 pages]
	Bergad, Laird. 2007. The Comparative Histories of Slavery in Brazil, Cuba, and the United States. Cambridge University Press. pp. 1-32 [31 pages]
	Discussion Questions-Week 1
Week 2:	Slavery and Freedom in the Nineteenth Century
	Andrews, George Reid. 2004. Afro-Latin America 1800-2000. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 11-52 [41 pages]
	Kinsbruner, Jay. 1996. Not of Pure Blood: The Free People of Color and Racial Prejudice in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico: Duke University Press. pp. 1-52 [51 pages]
	Discussion Questions Week 2
Week 3:	Threats and Opportunities for Free People of Color
	Kinsbruner, Jay. 1996. Not of Pure Blood: The Free People of Color and Racial Prejudice in Nineteenth-Century Puerto Rico: Duke University Press. pp. 81-102, 117-144 [48 pages]
	Discussion Questions Week 3
Week 4:	Racial Order and Racial Democracy at the Turn of the Century
	Andrews, George Reid. 2004. Afro-Latin America 1800-2000 New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 117-151 [34 pages]
	De la Fuente, Alejandro. 2001. A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-century Cuba. University of North Carolina Press. pp. 23-53 [30 pages]
	Discussion Questions Week 4
Week 5:	Twentieth-Century Mestizaje Projects (and Midterm)
	Andrews, George Reid. 2004. Afro-Latin America 1800-2000 New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 153-190 [37 pages]



	Discussion Questions Week 5
Week 6:	Black Politics and the Left
	De la Fuente, Alejandro. 2001. A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth-century Cuba. University of North Carolina Press. pp. 259-334 [75 pages] De la Fuente, Alejandro & Stanley R. Bailey. 2021. "The Puzzle of Racial Inequality in Cuba, 1980s - 2010s," Du Bois Review 18(1): 73-96. OPTIONAL: Samuel Farber, "Racism Against Black Cubans: an Opression that Dared not Speak its Name ," pp. 158-183 of Cuba After the Revolution of 1959: a Critical Assessment (Chicago: Haymarket books, 2011).
	Discussion Questions Week 6
Week 7:	Black Politics between Ethnic Difference and Racial Equality
	Htun, Mala. 2004. "From "Racial Democracy" to Affirmative Action: Changing State Policy on Race in Brazil." Latin American Research Review 39(1):60-89. [30 pages]
	French, Jan Hoffman. 2009. "Ethnoracial Identity, Multiculturalism, and Neoliberalism in the Brazilian Northeast." Pp. 101-13 in Beyond Neoliberalism in Latin America?, edited by J. Burdick, P. Oxhorn and K. Roberts. New York: Springer. [13 pages]
	Discussion Questions Week 7
Week 8:	Comparative Black Politics I
	Paschel, Tianna. 2016. Becoming Black Political Subjects: Movements and Ethno-Racial Rights in Colombia and Brazil. Princeton University Press. pp. 1-27, 47-80 [60 pages]
	Discussion Questions Week 8
Week 9:	Comparative Black Politics II
	Paschel, Tianna. 2016. Becoming Black Political Subjects: Movements and Ethno-Racial Rights in Colombia and Brazil. Princeton University Press. pp. 81-153 [72 pages]
	Discussion Questions Week 9
Week 10:	Review and Final

Tuesday	TBA
Thusday	Review for Final Exam
Final Exam	Friday, June 16, 2023 8:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Optional (Previously Week 10)
Telles, Edward. 2004. Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil. Princeton University Press. pp. 78-106, 139-172 [33 pages]

Bailey, Stanley R, Mara Loveman and Jeronimo O Muniz. 2013. "Measures of “Race” and the Analysis of Racial Inequality in Brazil." Social Science Research 42(1):106-19. [14 pages]

OPTIONAL: República de California

Dara Orenstein, "Void for Vagueness: Mexicans and the Collapse of Miscegenation Law in California," Pacific Historical Review, Vol. 74, No. 3 (August 2005), pp. 367-408.

McCormick, Jennifer; Ayala, César J ."Felícita 'La Prieta' Méndez (1916-1998) and the end of Latino School Segregation in California," Centro Journal, vol. XIX, no, 2, 2007, pp. 13-35.

Updated March 5, 2023

SPRING 2024

SOC154

SYLLABUS

Prof. César J. Ayala Office: Haines Hall 245 Office Hours:: Fridays 10 am to 12 am (please email first to confirm you are coming), or by appointment (email me to agree on a time). Email: cjayala@soc.ucla.edu Telephone: 310-267-4306 (Office, forwards to my cell) Cell: 310-853-3627

Prof. César J. Ayala
Office: Haines Hall 245
Office Hours:: Fridays 10 am to 12 am (please email first to confirm you are coming), or by appointment (email me to agree on a time).
Email: cjayala@soc.ucla.edu
Telephone: 310-267-4306 (Office, forwards to my cell)
Cell: 310-853-3627