Advanced seminar in Chicanx and Latinx Studies with topic to be announced at the beginning of each semester.

This course considers how popular cultural forms as diverse as reggaeton, telenovelas, zines, and TikTok, influence broader representations of Latinx gender and sexuality. How have these different media projects reshaped articulations of Latinx masculinities, femininities, queerness, familia, romance, and ethnic identity? How have genres like punk, poetry, and porn been taken up by different Latinx publics to redefine the stereotypes that have been used to define us? In this class, students will be conducting independent research that will track how cultural representation functions in a variety of mainstream, independent, and subcultural genres. Themes for mutual consideration will include the problems and possibilities of community representation; race and racism in Latin American and Latinx cultural production; consumerism and cultural commodities; and the representation of alternative genders and sexual cultures.

Repeat Rules

Course is not repeatable for credit.