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Academic Year 2002/2003

Culture and Identity in the Americas
LAST 263 FA
Crosslistings:
AMST 263

This course explores some of the ways in which culture informs struggles surrounding the construction of individual and collective identity in the Americas. More specifically, we will focus on how religion, popular culture, and the mass media mediate class, race, and gender conflicts. The course will take a hemispheric approach, comparing and contrasting case studies in the U.S. and Latin America.

MAJOR READINGS

Irene Silverblatt, MOON, SUN, AND WITCHES: GENDER IDEOLOGIES AND CLASS IN INCA AND COLONIAL PERU
Sylvia Frey, COME SHOUTING TO ZION
Roger Lancaster, LIFE IS HARD: MACHISMO, DANGER, AND THE INTIMACY OF POWER IN NICARAGUA
Amelia Simpson, XUXA: MEGA-MARKETING OF GENDER, RACE, AND MODERNITY
Claire Potter, WARE ON CRIME
Nestor Garcia Canclini: HYBRID CULTURES: STRATEGIES FOR ENTERING AND LEAVING MODERNITY

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

A combination of short papers (4-5 pp.) and a long research paper.

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: Lecture/Discussion

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: NONE    Grading Mode: Graded   

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-18-2003

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