LLS 577

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Perspectives in LLS

Credit: 4 hours.

Provides an overview of scholarly work and research in the field of Latina/o Studies.

Prerequisite: One undergraduate or graduate course in Latina/Latino Studies or consent of instructor.

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LLS 577 class schedule data for fall 2009
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	51280	Lecture-Discussion		3:00PM -4:50PM	T	150 English Building	Romero, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/09-12/09/09 Section Info: THIS COURSE IS A REQUIREMENT FOR THE LLS GRADUATE MINOR. Topic: "Latino Cultural Capital." This graduate seminar, situated in the interstices of Latino Studies and Hispanism, examines the ideas, values, mechanisms, structures and infrastructures through which Latino Studies is understood in the U.S. academy. We will ask ourselves, what are the political, economic, social, demographic, and cultural conditions that sustain and are sustained by this process of interpellation? How do the structures that allow for the consumption, negotiation, and exchange of "Latino Studies" affect the very definition of the field? And what are the conditions that surround that consumption? We will also explore how history, language, biography, canonicity, interdisciplinarity, and transnationalism affect the definition, exchange and consumption of the field. After a brief introduction to the classic texts by Pierre Bordieu and John Gillory on cultural capital, students will explore how the practice affects the premise in the texts of Doris Sommer, Ilan Stavans, Carlos Alonso, Guillermo Gomez Pena, Rudy Acuna, Nilo Cruz, Coco Fusco, Gustavo Perez Firmat, and Junot Diaz. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.