This undergraduate/graduate course takes a transhistorical and interdisciplinary approach to understand how Latin America and the African continent have remained culturally and geopolitically enmeshed since the rise of transatlantic European empires in the 15th century. This course shifts Paul Gilroy's concept of the ‘Black Atlantic’ toward a South-South framing, demonstrating how its central tenet of cultural hybridity, situated in a North Atlantic context of black cultural exchange, fails in a Latin American context due to the region's nationalization of hybridity discourses, like mestizaje and racial democracy, which effectively exclude black people from full citizenship. Similarly, we witness how African nations have long resisted colonial narratives of hybridity while they engage Latin America politically and economically due to shared histories of European colonization. Our focus on the South Atlantic is to reorient the debate toward black intellectual, cultural, and activist exchange between Africa and Latin America across history, politics, and cultural production as a more expansive notion of the Black Atlantic.