LATIN AMERICAN ROCK CULTURES

CHICLA/SPANISH 364

Analysis of Latinx/e popular culture to consider the varied make-up of Latinx/e populations, their specific histories, social dynamics, and politics through their creative expressions, performances, and cultural contestations. Covers key terms and concepts, cultural developments, and diverse interpretations while focusing in the analysis of Latinx/e music, performance art, film and media, sports, food, and car culture. Other topics include the production, circulation, and reception of Latinx/e popular culture, the use of Spanish and English languages, issues of identity, migration, and interculturality, the role of the cultural industry, and the context of globalization. Broadly explores the intersectionality of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, and nation regarding Latinx/e populations. Taught in Spanish.

CHICLA/SPANISH 469

Focuses on the cultural evolution of Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, Cuban-Americans, and other U.S. Latinos in relation to their countries of origin. Topics vary.

SPANISH 223

Introduction to the issues which shape the national cultures and the cultural practices of the Hispanic world. Emphasis on diversity, emergence of new imagined communities, cultural hybridity, and social movements within a historical framework.

CHICLA/SPANISH 222

Offers an introduction to the culture and history of the Mexican and Latin American origin people in the United States. Emphasis on diversity, emergence of new imagined communities, and cultural hybridity. Focusing on key issues such as U.S. imperial expansion, colonialism, nation and community formations, migration, urban spaces, and the dynamics of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality, study a range of socio-political, historical, literary, and artistic expressions that inform the whole process of culture and reveal the way Latinos and Latinas negotiate their presence, cultural difference, and creativity in the U.S.

AFROAMER/ANTHRO/C&ESOC/GEOG/HISTORY/LACIS/POLISCI/SOC/SPANISH 260

Latin American culture and society from an interdisciplinary perspective; historical developments from pre-Columbian times to the present; political movements; economic problems; social change; ecology in tropical Latin America; legal systems; literature and the arts; cultural contrasts involving the US and Latin America; land reform; labor movements; capitalism, socialism, imperialism; mass media.