This course approaches cultural studies in Latin American and US Latinx studies through an introduction to race and performance studies. With particular emphasis on artists of color from the Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States, we will study methods of how race is performed culturally, socially, and politically. M/W/F 2:00-2:50pm; CRN: 53110 Instructor: Xiomara Verenice Cervantes-Gómez  

This course serves as a panoramic introduction to Spanish literatures and cultures from the perspective of non-hegemonic discourses and subjects. Following Antonio Gramsci, the course will focus on literature that challenges dominant assumptions, beliefs, and established patterns of behavior. The common denominator will be breaking with the hegemonic image of Spain as Castilian, White, Catholic, Middle-Class, and Heteropatriarchal. We will examine artistic product such as literary pieces, films, and testimonial and biographical materials like documentaries or memoirs. Taking an...