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4.00 Credits
Lecture is concurrent with Chicana/o Studies 135, along with a weekly honors seminar, requiring additional assignments and intensive discussion of the readings. Intended for highly motivated and well prepared students.
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Explores various manifestations of popular and mass culture in Chicano urban and semi-rural communities throughout the Southwest. Both secular and religious cultural phenomena are analyzed (lowriders, saints, music, etc.). Relationships to mainstream culture is examined.
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4.00 Credits
Provides an interdisciplinary historical overview of Central American migrations to the U.S., and a cultural and political analysis of resulting individual and group identities. Transnationalism, diasporas, politics, and community building among Central Americans, or "Central American-Americans" are explored.
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4.00 Credits
Though Chicana/o art is often associated with serious political and grassroots movements, the use of humor has been a recurring element in its production. Course examines the various instances of humor, irony, and parody in Chicana/o art.
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4.00 Credits
Exploration of the construction, imaging and experience of the body in light of modern regimes of power/knowledge. Particular attention is paid tothe work of Michel Foucault on disciplinary technologies, medical practicesof ab/normalization, and the emergence of bio-power.
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4.00 Credits
Explores the extent to which communities and individuals can be identified in their production of material cultures. Begins and ends with examples from modern culture, then treats the production of stone tools, ceramics, and stone sculpture in classic Maya culture.
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4.00 Credits
Surveys contemporary forms of feminist consciousness expressed U.S. women of color. Can U.S. women of color be considered a political class? What relations exist between women of color across race, culture, sex, and class differences?
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4.00 Credits
Lecture is concurrent with Chicana/o Studies 151 along with a weekly honors seminar, requiring additional assignments and intensive discussion of the readings. Intended for highly motivated and well prepared students.
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4.00 Credits
Examines queer/lgbt community life and death; political and social identities; and multiple gender and sexual expressions. Grounded in narratives of identity and experience, the course explores dimensions of visibility, space, "silence," and politics of exclusion in queer worlds.
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4.00 Credits
Spoken wor(ld) art performance activism (SWAPA) introduces students to a method for reading, writing, thinking, and performing before an audience of peers. This method is based on the shaman-witness ritual proposed by Chicana theorist and writer, Gloria Anzaldua.
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