This course on literary and cultural studies methodology focuses on AfroLatinidades theory and criticism across the Black Diaspora, Latin America, and Latinx contexts. Theoretical frameworks include Mestizaje, Mulataje, and AfroLatinidades Paradigms, and core features of AfroLatinx signifying, poetics, and politics. Theorists range from Roberto Fernández Retamar, Sylvia Wynter, José Luis González, Juan Flores, and more.