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Crosslistings: AMST 252 |
This course will investigate the legal and fictional formation of Chicana/o group identity in texts by Chicanos/as against legal cases that view institutional racism as antagonism between particular individuals rather than part of a history of long-term discrimination of one group against another. Beginning with Oscar Zeta Acosta's novel, this class will explore both Chicanas/os as subject to the law as well as their attempts to engage in its power structure as detectives, police, jury members, lawyers, translators, etc. We will also watch the film ZOOT SUIT and AMERICAN ME and examine legal documents from the Sleepy Lagoon Case, comparing the role of public stripping, spectacle and surveillance. We will continue looking at these issues of criminality, ethnography, the gaze and their connections to magic realism and homosexuality in works by Castillo, Morales and Rodriguez. In writings by Cervantes, Corpi, Moraga, and Viramontes, we will examine the role of gendered translations that decon struct the nationalist allegory of the Chicano family as a safe site against capitalism and domination.
Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.
COURSE FORMAT: Discussion
Level: UGRD Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: NONE Grading Mode: Graded
Prerequisites: NONE
Last Updated on MAR-19-2002
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