Course: AFST155: Blacks in Latin America
Faculty: Layla Brown-Vincent
DP&S Liaison: Janine Glathar
Date: Fall 2017
Carrie Pirmann and Janine Glathar worked with Prof. Brown-Vincent to develop a storymap assignment as part of students’ semester projects. Pirmann and Glathar developed map layers, including province/county level data on race and ethnicity, for a selected group of Latin American countries. The class data set also included data on the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, Latin American Colonial Rule and other map layers to help students understand the history of black people in Latin America .