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Academic Year 2003/2004
Culture and Identity in the Americas
LAST 263 FA
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.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture/Discussion
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
NONE
Grading Mode:
Graded
Prerequisites:
NONE
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Last Updated on MAR-19-2004
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