This course offers a critical exploration of Indigenous and Black presence across seas. We will maintain a transnational, transatlantic perspective throughout the course, focusing on the narratives and discourses created by Indigenous and Black peoples from the moment of contact to the present. What have been some of the representations of Indigenous and Black peoples in the Iberian Peninsula, the Americas, and Africa? How have Indigenous and Black peoples countered and resisted dominant narratives? We will survey a wide range of cultural and literary works such as film, photography, hip/hop/rap music, poetry, short stories, letters, and textiles, to gain a better understanding of the ways Indigenous and Black media makers have and are reaching a wider audience with their works. Students will have the opportunity to engage in conversations on issues of representation, resistance, trauma, movement, displacement, and violence to name a few. We will center Indigenous and Black voices that challenge, create, and respond to dominant monolithic viewpoints.