RG ST 63 - Witches & Brujxs: Black Magic & (Afro-)Latinx Feminism
Approaches witchcraft as a cross-cultural phenomenon. We survey the concept and actual practice of European, West African, Black Atlantic, and Latin American witchcraft in order to promote media literacy, critical thinking, and comparative analysis of gender/sexuality, race/ethnicity, and religion. Among other topics, we discuss witch crazes in the early modern period; the legal prosecution of Obeah and Afro-Diasporic religions in the Caribbean; indigeneity and curanderismo; the experiences of African American conjure women, voodoo queens, and #blackgirlmagic; pagan, Wicca, and New Age witchery; the Latinx theoretical orientation of bruja feminism; spiritual activism; and the spellcraft of solitary LGBTQ practitioners.
Elizabeth Perez
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