Latinx/e & Caribbean Public Cultures
AMST 230
Spring 2027
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01
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| Crosslisting:
FGSS 229, AFAM 231 |
This interdisciplinary seminar explores the politics of Latinx/e & Caribbean public cultures across time and space. Through a deep engagement with various texts and media (readings, films, visual art, digital archives, print culture, music and performance), we will consider how the mutually constitutive categories of race, gender, sexuality, class, and citizenship, among others, coalesce in the cultural representation of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Latinx/e and Caribbean histories and geographies. In other words, we will critically attend to the aesthetic and spatial production of the terms, "Latino/a/x/e" "Chicano/a/x," and ¿Caribbean/West Indian." Key topics include labor and immigration; nationalism and sovereignty; respectability and identity politics; mestizaje and colorism; sexual and gender-based violence; social movements; machismo, woman of color feminisms; transness, queerness; self-fashioning, performance, and sound (punk, dancehall, reggae-en-español, reggaeton). Dixa Ramirez, Colonial Phantoms: Belonging and Refusal in the Dominican Americas, from the 19th Century to the Present; David Scott, Refashioning Futures: Criticism after Postcoloniality; Jillian Hernández, Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment; Richard T Rodríguez, Next of Kin: The Family in Chicana/o Cultural Politics; Joshua Guzmán, Dissatisfactions: Queer Latinidad and the Politics of Style. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS AMST |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: None |
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Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Sample readings may include Audre Lorde, ¿Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power¿; Jillian Hernández, Aesthetics of Excess: The Art and Politics of Black and Latina Embodiment; Juana Rodríguez, Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings; Francisco J. Galarte, Brown Trans Figurations: Rethinking Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Chicanx/Latinx Studies; Marcos Gonsalez, Revolting Indolence: The Politics of Slacking, Lounging, and Daydreaming in Queer and Trans Latinx Culture; Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. Los Angeles: ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries, 2017.
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Examinations and Assignments:
Class participation, short writing assignments, midterm essay, final project. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
This course will be taught by incoming faculty member Gregoria Rosa Olson |
| Instructor(s): Olson Grimaldo,Goya R. Times: ..T.R.. 10:20AM-11:40AM; Location: TBA |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 12 | | SR major: 4 | JR major: 4 | | |
| | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 1 | JR non-major: 1 | SO: 2 | FR: 0 |
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