LLS 296

Spring 2010 All Classes

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Topics Latina/o Studies

Credit: 3 hours.

Course examines specific topics in Latina/Latino Studies not addressed in regularly offered courses. Examples include theories of ethnic identity, historical foundations, cultural expression, and relevant topics in public policy studies of Latina/Latino communities.

May be repeated in same or separate terms to a maximum of 6 hours.

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LLS 296 class schedule data for spring 2010
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	46465	Lecture-Discussion	C	4:00PM -5:20PM	MW	Armory	Dowling, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/10-05/05/10 Section Info: Topic: "Race and Mixed-Race: Changing Racial Classification in the U.S." Meets with AAS 299 and SOC 396. This class will focus specifically on the history of racial classification in the U.S. with special attention to the census and the role of the state more generally in defining race. The emphasis will be on how race-mixing has been understood in American culture, and on the current literature on "multiracials" and the future of "race" in the US.
	52845	Lecture-Discussion	DC	9:30AM -10:50AM	TR	David Kinley Hall	Coyoca, W	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/10-05/05/10 Section Info: Topic: "The Politics of Hip Hop and Urban Space." Meets with AAS 299. This course examines hip hop's emergence from and relation to urban landscapes deeply impacted by state surveillance, cuts in social welfare programs, immigration, and the global restructuring of capital. Our investigation will also consider the viability of a "politics of hip hop" in the wake of hip hop's rising value as a global commodity. This class will also analyze hip hop as a transnational site in which gendered and sexual identities are created, contested, and rearticulated.