Courses SUMMER 2009 and FALL 2009
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SUMMER Session I: 2009
HISTORY 104 - Western U.S. History
More than half of History 104 - Western U.S. History - focuses on the experiences of Chicanos/as in the Southwest, and the course counts as an elective for the LSGS certificate.
This course surveys the history of what is now the Western United States, from before
Columbus to the present, emphasizing the experiences of "Chicanos/as" (ethnic Mexicans).
Moving beyond mythic constructions of the region, the course presents the West as both a
geographic area and the result of specific historical processes, including the early and
persistent presence of the federal government, the increased importance of extractive industry and outside capital, and the daily interactions of a diverse population. Race, class, gender, and social conflict are at the heart of understanding what Patricia Limerick calls the "unbroken legacy of conquest" in the American West. CZ; CCI. Latino/a Studies (LSGS) elective credit.
FALL 2009
I. COURSES WITH SIGNIFICANT LATINO/A STUDIES COMPONENT:
LIT 162ZS 01/ Span 181S-03 Special Topics in Literature and National Cultures, Ethnicity, Race
MW 1:15PM - 2:30PM Friedl Bdg 118 Instructor: Walter Mignolo
(See Spanish 181S -03 below)
LIT 162ZS 02/ SPANISH 181S 01 United States Latina/o Literatures and Cultural Studies
TuTh 1:15PM - 2:30PM Perkins LINK TBA Instructor: Claudia Milian
(See Spanish 181S -01 below)
SPANISH 106A - 01 Health, Culture, and the Latino Community
WF 10:05AM - 11:20AM Carr Building 135 Liliana Paredes
Issues associated with access to the health care industry for growing Latino/a population in the US. Topics: cultural competency issues, medical practices, lexical knowledge related to the field. Develop research proposal informed by required 20 hours of service work with local community partners. Assessment on knowledge of content, oral and written Spanish, and participation in service. Recommended students take 100-level Spanish course prior to enrolling. Pre-requisite: Spanish 76 or equivalent. Instructor: Paredes and Staff
SPANISH 106ES 01 Latino/a Voices in Duke, Durham and Beyond
TuTh 10:05AM - 11:20AM Friedl Bdg 118
Formation of Latino/a identity(ies) and community voices through the lens of cultural, political, and social issues at local and national level. Topics: Minority voices, power and class, linguistic and artistic expression. Required 20 hours outside of class working with Mariposa Stories Project in Durham Public Schools. Assessment on knowledge of content, oral and written Spanish, service. Recommended students take 100-level Spanish course prior to enrolling. Prerequisite: Spanish 76 or equivalent. Instructor: Paredes and Staff
SPANISH 142S 02 "Spanish" Lit: LATINA/O AMERICAN POP CULTURE
TuTh 4:25PM - 5:40PM Perkins LINK TBA
Drawing on contemporary popular culture, this course explores what "Latinness" and the "national" constitute in the creation and consumption of Latino identities as deployed both in the United States and Latin America. Exploring how Latina, Latino, and Latin American bodies inhabit particular cultural and geographic contexts, the seminar addresses the ways that popular cultural forms are developed, contested, or resolved vis-à-vis issues of difference, multicultural inclusiveness, domestic history, and narratives of exile and migration. The deployment of popular aesthetic forms in both Latina/o and Latin American contexts orients us to think about the ways that popular culture operates as a structurally active agent countering exoticized or "tropicalized" referents for peoples, nations, and cultural practices. The aim of this seminar is to examine how "our" connections with U.S. Latina/o and Latin American populations are made, or separated, by popular culture and the world of the commodity. Of particular concern are such questions as: What are the pressing sociocultural and political issues confronted by U.S. national culture and how are these accounted for, if not represented, through the different perspectives and terrains that shape Latino and Latin American popular cultures? How does the seeming contemporary development of U.S. Latino cultures dialogue not only with Americanness but with Latin Americanness as well? We will unravel these questions by analyzing multiple forms of cultural production, including novels, films, television shows (e.g., "Ugly Betty" [2006-], "Dora the Explorer" [2000-]), and "¿Qué Pasa, USA?" [1977-1980]), advertising, comic strips, food fusions as "Nuevo Latino," and music. Instructor: Claudia Milian
SPANISH 181S 01/ LIT 162ZS – 02 US Latina/o Literatures and Cultural Studies: Special Topic: Theorizing Latinidad
TuTh 1:15PM - 2:30PM Perkins LINK TBA
This course examines theories and approaches to a "collective" U.S. Latina and Latino identity, raising questions about the aims and ends of a "unifying" and singular concept of "Latinidad." As such, we shall ask what creates Latinidad and investigate the kinds of subjects and subjectivities constituted within U.S. social processes of "becoming." How, then, do Latinas and Latinos encounter one another when the assumption is that "they" are working towards "similar" interests and agendas? In light of these concerns, the seminar will ask whether there can be a Latinidad without national identities and "brown" referents as founding myths. Drawing from social science as well as cultural and literary works, we shall engage, for example, with Arlene Davila's *Latinos, Inc.: The Marketing and Making of a People*; Néstor García Canclini's *Latinoamericanos Buscano Lugar En Este Siglo*; and Juana Rodriguez's *Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discursive Spaces,* among others.By calling into question the types of discursive erasures that surface as Latina and Latino identities are grasped through projects of consesus-building, social movements, and community affiliations will provide the background and insight to rethink "Latinity."
from a different point of view. Instructor: Claudia Milian
Span 181S 03 Sp Topic: The Hispanic Challenge and the Rise of "Latinidad" in the US
MW 1:15 -2:30 Instructor: Walter Mignolo
In 2005, noted Harvard political scientist Samuel Huntington published an influential article entitled, “The Hispanic Challenge.” In this article, he posited that Latin American immigration into the U.S. threatens to split the country into “two cultures and two languages,” impinging on what he saw as a homogenous, coherent, Anglo-Protestant United States. This course responds to Huntington with a simple question: What is the Hispanic Challenge? Does it consist of migrant workers in California and Texas? Or laborers at meat-packing plants in Iowa, Colorado, and North Carolina? Does it include former Attorney General, Alberto Gonzalez? Does it include artists, intellectuals, educators, and activists? Was the Hispanic Challenge part of the 2006 May Day uprising, in which millions of immigrant workers and their supports took to the streets in the first nationwide general strike this country has ever seen? And for whom is this challenge a challenge? In this course, we will examine a series of responses,
relocations, dis- and re-identifications by Latino and Latina writers, artists, cultural critics, intellectuals and activists. We will bring to the foreground the debates on the construction of plurinational states in Ecuador and Bolivia, Mexico and Guatemala. We want to understand the “Hispanic Chllenge,” its relationship with the formation of racism in the US, and the role played by Latinos and Latinas in shaping United States
culture and politics throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. This seminar meets CCI and ALP requirements.
Instructor: Walter Mignolo
II. ADDITIONAL COURSES OF INTEREST (courses with some Latino/a content):
AAAS 299S 01/Culanth 280S-02/ICS 299s/Sociol 299S-02/LATAMER 299S-01 Special Topics: CITIZENS & SUB: RACE/PLACE/POWER
W 4:25PM - 6:55PM Trent 038B Michaeline Crichlow
This course covers, at a graduate level, a broad range of cultural topics in Latin American and Caribbean studies from music, art, language, film, journalism, dance, poetry, politics etc. and explores the ways in which cultural expression reflects and criticizes social, economic and political forces in the region. Different topics will be chosen each term.
AAAS 299S 11/Pupol 264S-11/Econ 295S-11 Special Topics: RACE ETHNICITY & SOCIAL POLICY
TuTh 4:25PM - 5:40PM Rubenstein Hall 151 William Darity
CULANTH 113 01/ICS 101E-01/WOMENST 117-01 Gender and Culture
WF 10:05AM - 11:20AM Irene Silverblatt
Explanation of differing beliefs about gender cross-culturally, by comparison with dominant themes about gender in our own cultural history and contemporary ideological struggles. Instructor: Allison or Silverblatt
CULANTH 144 01/AAAS 144-01 The Anthropology of Race
TuTh 10:05AM - 11:20AM Perkins 2-071 Lee Baker
Human variation and the historical development of concepts of race; science and scientific racism; folk-concepts of race; and the political and economic causes of racism; ethics of racism. Instructor: Staff
CULANTH 161S 01/POLISCI 124S-01 Human Rights Activism
WF 1:15PM - 2:30PM Friedl Bdg 216 Robin Kirk
Introduction to the foundations and development of the human rights movement. Explore themes related to mass violence and social conflict, U.S. foreign policy and international humanitarian law, and the challenges of justice and reconciliation around the world. Emphasis on the changing nature of human rights work and the expanding, contested boundaries of the struggle to protect basic human dignity both at home and abroad. Required participation in service learning. Instructor: Kirk
CULANTH 191P 01/ICS 101H-01 Globalization and Anti-Globalization
MW 4:25PM - 5:40PM Mara Kaufman
The politics and process of globalization in light of the responses, ideologies, and practices of the anti-globalization movement. Focus on the interrelationship between the analysis of globalization and policy formulation on such topics as social justice, labor, migration, poverty, natural resource management, and citizenship. Case studies from the United States, Latin America, South and East Asia, Africa, and Europe. Instructor: Litzinger
French 190. 01 Introduction tot he Kreyol Language and Culture
TuTh 1:15PM - 2:30PM Perkins 2-079 Faspard Louis and Deborah Jenson
Why do we study colonial and postcolonial history in the languages of the colonizing metropoles? Here is an opportunity to study the remarkable history of the first country where slaves rose up to end colonialism—Haiti—in the language of “contact” between Africans and Europeans, Kreyòl (“creole”). A linguistic passage between the African diaspora and European colonizers in the New World, Haitian Kreyòl features a largely French-derived vocabulary, and African-derived grammatical structures. It is spoken by 9 million Haitians, and is related to other varieties of creole around the globe. The course provides students with introductory foundations of spoken and written Kreyòl, contextualized within a survey of Haitian culture. The language course is taught by native speaker Gaspard Louis. The component on Haitian culture, taught by Deborah Jenson, will be in English and will cover topics such as the genocide of Taino Indians on Hispaniola; the origins of New World creoles; the Middle Passage in Haitian vodou and painting; libertine culture; the leaders of the Haitian Revolution; the 1915-1934 U.S. occupation of Haiti; the 1937 “Parsley Massacre” (“El Corte”) of Haitians in the Dominican Republic; duvalierism; and the fall of the Aristide government in 2004. The course will provide linguistic and cultural background to prepare undergraduate and graduate students for service, educational, or research travel in Haiti and in Haitian diasporan communities in the U.S.
HISTORY 111H 01 The Origins of Modern America: United States, 1914-1941
TuTh 10:05AM - 11:20AM Carr Building 137 Adriane Lentz-Smith
Post World War I transformations in foreign relations, technology, literature, the arts, political and economic thought and practice; the rise of a consumer society, the growth of the state, the increase in Mexican immigration, the "New Negro," and the "Modern Woman" during the "roaring twenties" and the Great Depression. Instructor: Deutsch, Thompson, and staff
ICS 131E 01/POLISCI 151E-01/LATAMER 151E-01 Elections and Social Protest in Latin America
WF 11:40AM - 12:55PM Sanford 04 Guillermo Trejo Osorio
Introduction to the literature on electoral behavior and social movements and overview of elections and protest--who votes, who protests, and why they do it. Analysis of the following six countries: Bolivia, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Venezuela, and Guatemala. Open to sophomores and juniors with a basic background in Latin American history. Instructor: Trejo
LATAMER 199 02/AAAS 199 06/ICS 140 01/ SOCIOL 198 02/ CULANTH 180 01 Special Topics in Latin American and Caribbean Culture and Society: CULTURE, POLITICS OF CARIBBEAN
TuTh 2:50PM - 4:05PM Friedl Bdg 240 Michaeline Crichlow
This course covers a broad range of cultural topics in Latin American and Caribbean studies from music, art, language, film, journalism, dance, poetry,etc. and explores the ways in which cultural expression reflects and criticizes social, economic and political forces in the region. Different topics will be chosen each term. Instructor: Staff
LINGUIST 122 01/Span 109 01 Fundamentals of Spanish Linguistics
MW 2:50PM - 4:05PM Joan Munne
A comprehensive overview of the field of linguistics as it relates to Spanish. Starting from the question "what does it mean to know Spanish", the course reviews the areas of phonology, morphology, syntax, pragmatics, semantics, applied linguistics, and sociolinguistics. The main goal is to develop students' skills in analyzing data, forming and testing hypotheses, and arguing for the correctness of solutions. Individual topics investigated by students. Prerequisite: Spanish 101 or 104 or consent of instructor. Instructor: Staff
POLSCI 141D 001/ AAAS 149D 001 Introduction to Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics (A)
MW 10:20AM - 11:10AM OR F 10:20AM - 11:10AM OR Th 4:40PM - 5:30PM
Social Sciences 119 Paula McClain
The politics of four of the United States principal racial minority groups -- blacks, Latinos, Asians, and American Indians. Instruction is provided in two lectures and one small discussion meeting each week. Instructor: McClain
SPANISH 114S 01 Inventing the Mexican Revolution: From the Novel to the Museum
TuTh 11:40AM - 12:55PM Friedl Bdg 216 Laura Cobian
Prerequisite: Spanish 76 or placement/achievement score of 630 or above.
Inventing the Mexican Revolution will examine the literary, artistic and historical representations of the revolution (1910-20) in relation to the rise of modern cultural nationalism. The course will also investigate how the post-revolutionary state (1920-35) reinvents the story of the Mexican Revolution illuminating how memory, art, politics and national identity are shaped by its mythification. How does the Aztec past influence how Mexico remembers its 1910 Revolution? Why do Mexico’s revolutionaries enter its museums? What do novels teach us about experiencing museums? This course attempts to answer these questions