A Transdisciplinary Program Housed in the Department of English & Comparative Literature
Latinidades ©
2004 by María DeGuzmán, Camera Query
The Latina/o Studies
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Special Feature: "Transcending Borders" on "The State of Things" (WUNC - Public Radio), March 28, 2008. Re: Latina/o & Latin American Music in North Carolina and the United States.
To listen to this radio program, click on http://wunc.org/tsot/archive/sot0328b08.mp3/view
The Development of Latina/o Studies at UNC-Chapel HillHistory of the undergraduate UNC Latina/o Studies Minor (established 2004) & the UNC Latina/o Cultures Speakers Series (begun in 1999):
March 1, 2004 the UNC-CH Administrative Boards approved an undergraduate Minor in Latina/o Studies. It has been available since Fall 2004. Please consult the list of courses associated with the Minor below the list of advisory board members.
Please contact Mark Richardson, Undergraduate Literature Program Assistant, in the Department of English & Comparative Literature, if you have specific questions about paperwork for the Minor. His email is: richardm@email.unc.edu. If you are intending to Minor in Latina/o Studies, make an appointment with your academic advisor. Check under Student Personal Information on Student Central to find out what advising team you are on. Plan to fill out a Major/Minor Declaration for Undergraduates form. These forms are obtained from your advisor. The code for the minor is: LTNO.
This undergraduate transdisciplinary Minor in Latina/o Studies housed in the Department of English & Comparative Literature draws from course offerings in the humanities, social sciences, and, possibly, the sciences. In order to obtain certification in the Minor a student must take 5 courses in a variety of areas so that her or his plan of study qualifies as Latina/o Studies (and not just literature or history and so forth). We have faculty teaching relevant courses in Anthropology and African/Afro-American Studies, Dramatic Arts, English, Geography, History, Music, Public Policy, Romance Languages, and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. As a complement to the minor, we have the UNC-Chapel Hill Latina/o Culture(s) Speakers Series . Since Fall 1999 the Series has brought to campus many distinguished scholars and writers and has been exploring the intersections between Latina/o and African American cultural production, between specifically Chicana/o and Native American Studies, and common ground (LatinAsia or AsiaLat Studies) between Latina/o Studies and Asian Diaspora Studies. We also have an English department graduate minor in Latina/o Literature(s) & Theory. An undergraduate minor with 27 courses reflects Carolina’s commitment to this burgeoning area of inquiry, cultural production, and lived experience.
If you have any questions, please feel free to email Dr. María DeGuzmán, Director of Latina/o Studies at UNC, at deguzman@email.unc.edu. If you are a full-time or adjunct faculty member or post-doc at UNC - Chapel Hill and would like to offer courses that would count toward the minor or re-design related courses you are already teaching, by all means indicate this in your email. You may want to contact the advisory board members and other relevant faculty to see what courses they are offering in the area of Latina/o Studies or that include a crucial Latina/o Studies component.
Brief Definition of Latina/o Studies:
Latina/o Studies as a field is constituted out of the interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary study of Latina/o cultural production and experience in terms of a whole variety of factors. Latinas/os are defined as people of Latin American and, possibly, Iberian descent living in the United States or U.S.-based but also moving between the U.S. and the rest of the Americas. In other words, unlike Latin American Studies where the focus is on the cultures and experiences of various parts of Latin America (an umbrella term covering Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America), Latina/o Studies takes as its primary concern the presence of Latin America, Spain, and the myriad combinations of Hispanic-Native-African-Asian cultures within the borders of the United States. However, Latina/o Studies is not confined within those borders either to the extent that its subjects of study (and the very creators of the field itself) are in motion and in flux, coming and going, continually crossing borders and boundaries. In this respect, it does share some of the transnational and transcultural scope, momentum, and issues of Latin American Studies but with its own foci, its own perspectives, that owe a great deal to Ethnic Studies and the knowledge produced in and through various intersecting civil rights movements. Latina/o Studies does not duplicate the work of Latin American Studies; it draws on it and complements it. Ideally, this scholarly relation works in reverse, too. An excellent book on the relation of Latin American and Latina/o Studies in the era of transnationalism and globalization is Critical Latin American and Latino Studies, edited by Juan Poblete (University of Minnesota Press, 2003).
Like Latin American Studies, Latina/o Studies is characterized by heterogeneity. Latina/o Studies encompasses Chicana/o Studies, Puerto Rican Studies, Cuban American Studies, Dominican Studies, Central American Studies, and so forth, and it must take into account the cultural production and the socio-economic and political experiences of a very diverse population located in many parts of the country, not just in the Southwest borderlands, though, of course, those are of primary importance given the historical and contemporary relation with Mexico (part of North America, after all, and from whence the United States took a quarter to a third of its territory). As such, Latina/o Studies offers plenty of opportunity for specialization. At the same time, by virtue of being "Latina/o Studies" (a synthesizing rubric), it is characterized by research and invites courses that explore the mutual influence of and transculturation between different groups of Latinas/os in the United States and in the migrations across and within national borders. Thus, for instance, "Latinidad" or "pan-Latinidad" has become and will continue to be a debated and researched phenomenon. As of July 2001, there were 37 million documented Latinas/os in the United States, over 13% of the population. That figure has increased since then. In July 2004, Latinas/os numbered 41.3 million out of a national population of almost 293.7 million. At the present time, the figure has surpassed 45.5 million people. The importance and relevance of "Latina/o Studies" is not only demographic, but cultural and historical, not only about immigration but about the momentum and synergy of people who have long been within what is today known as "the United States of America."
Advisory Committee for the Latina/o Studies Minor:
Deborah Bender (deborah_bender@unc.edu), Health Policy and Administration, School of Global Public Health Kia Lilly Caldwell (klcaldwe@email.unc.edu), African & Afro-American Studies Altha Cravey (ajcravey@email.unc.edu), Geography Elyse Crystall (vidalia@email.unc.edu), English & Comparative Literature María DeGuzmán (deguzman@email.unc.edu), English & Comparative Literature Kathleen DuVal (duval@email.unc.edu), History Oswaldo Estrada (oestrada@email.unc.edu), Romance Languages David García (daga@email.unc.edu), Music Juan Carlos González-Espitia (jcge@email.unc.edu), Romance Languages Laura Halperin (lhalperi@email.unc.edu), English & Comparative Literature Ashley Lucas (lucasa@email.unc.edu), Dramatic Arts Mario Marzan (mmarzan@email.unc.edu), Studio Art Rosa Perelmuter(rpperelm@email.unc.edu), Romance Languages Krista Perreira (Krista_perreira@unc.edu), Public Policy Lars Schoultz (schoultz@unc.edu), Political Science Karla Slocum (kslocum@unc.edu), Anthropology Emilio del Valle Escalante (edelvall@email.unc.edu), Romance Languages & Literatures Lucila Vargas (lcvargas@email.unc.edu), Journalism Adam Versenyi (anversen@email.unc.edu), Dramatic Arts
List of courses in the Latina/o Studies Minor (subject to change and update):Requirements for the Minor: 2 core courses (1 in the Humanities and 1 in the Social Sciences) plus 3 electives distributed between Humanities and Social Sciences (that is, in terms of electives, 2 in Humanities and 1 in Social Sciences or vice versa). See options listed below.
1 in Humanities, that is, in Latina/o Literatures & Cultural Production (including visual media, performance, and the like). Courses under this rubric are:
Course offered by the Dramatic Arts Department:
Drama 488: U.S. Latina/o Theatre. This course investigates U.S. Latino/a theatre texts and performance practices as a discreet genre within the larger context of theatre in the United States. Students will study what distinguishes U. S. Latino/a theatre from the larger dominant (European American) culture, as well as the diversity of forms, styles, and theatrical practices present within U.S. Latina/o theatre itself. Instructor: Adam Versenyi. Spring 2007.
Courses offered by the English & Comparative Literature Department:
English 265: Literature and Race, Literature and Ethnicity: Identifying Deviance: The Cultural Production of Locura. Meets Tues. & Thurs. 11 - 12:15 PM in 222 Greenlaw Hall. What does it mean for a person to be called deviant, loca, or loco? What does it mean for an entire group to be labeled such? In this discussion course, we will explore the multiple meanings the term "locura," or deviance, has acquired in late twentieth century Latina/o literary and cultural production. We will begin the semester by reading psychological literature, ethnography, memoir, and fiction--such as Ana Castillo's So Far from God and excerpts from Vilma Santiago-Irizarry's Medicalizing Ethnicity--that focus on locura's literal translation as "madness." We will then turn to Luis Rodriguez's memoir Always Running, Yxta Maya Murray's novel Locas, and Allison Anders's film Mi Vida Loca that portray locura's association with gang membership. Our next section will examine how Cherríe Moraga's short story "Pesadilla," excerpts from Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands, and Mariana Romo-Carmona's novel Living at Night portray a link between locura and homosexuality. We will conclude the course by reading critical scholarship about pop icon Ricky Martin that analyzes the singer's popularization and sexualization of what it means to "liv[e] la vida loca." Throughout the course, we will question how the categorizations of locura feed into and/or challenge stereotypes about Latinas/os in the U.S., and we will consider the power of labels to harm but also to empower. Instructor: Laura Halperin. Tuesdays and Thursdays 11 - 12:15 PM. Fall 2008.
English 364: Introduction to Latina/o Studies. This discussion course introduces students to the transdisciplinary field of Latina/o Studies, a field that generally combines the humanities and social sciences. Given this transdisciplinarity, the course contents will draw from histories, memoirs, theoretical essays, fiction, films and/or documentaries, music, and media. The course will begin by contextualizing the historical experiences of different Latina/o groups, including Chicanas/os, Puerto Ricans, Dominican Americans, and Cuban Americans. It will investigate what it means to be Latina/o in the United States, critically examining the formation of, and differentiation between, group labels such as "Latina/o" and "Hispanic." It will familiarize students with some of the major issues affecting the field of Latina/o Studies, such as border issues, immigration and migration, labor, and national allegiance(s). In addition to being transdisciplinary, the course will be intersectional, as it will encourage students to think critically about the ways race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality shape discourses and representations of Latinas/os in the United States. Instructor: Laura Halperin. Tuesdays and Thursdays 2 - 3:15 PM. Fall 2008.
English 49E now English 465: Difference, Aesthetics, and Affect when taught as "Chicana/o Noir." Examines interrelations between cultural difference, socio-political circumstances, aesthetic form, and the representation, production, and conveyance of subjectivity (affect, states of feeling) in texts, other media, and material culture. Instructor: María DeGuzmán.
English 50/Women's Studies 150 now English 665: Queer Latina/o Literature, Performance, and Visual Art. Taught in connection with the Sexualities Minor as well as the Latina/o Studies Minor. This course explores literature, performance art, film, and photography by Latinas/os whose works may be described as "queer" and that question the terms and norms of cultural dominance. Instructor: María DeGuzmán.
English 79 now English 364: Introduction to Latina/o Studies. This course introduces students to the transdisciplinary field of Latina/o Studies, a field that generally combines the humanities and social sciences. The course will be oriented towards familiarizing students with some of the major questions within Latina/o Studies in terms of transnationalism, transculturation, ethnicity, race, class, gender, sexuality, systems of value, and aesthetics. It will help students to think about the curricular, institutional, and cultural implications of Latina/o Studies—particularly in relation to U.S. Literature, Literature of the Americas, American Studies, Latin American Studies, and even Transatlantic Studies. Much of the reading will be critical and theoretical but we will consider some primary verbal and visual works around and upon which to ground our discussions. Course requirements include two 2-3 page written responses, an oral presentation, one 8-page essay, and an 8-10 page essay. Class meetings will involve a mixture of lecture and discussion. Spring 2006. Instructor: María DeGuzmán.
English 90/American Studies 80 now English 265: Literature and Race, Literature and Ethnicity when taught as "The Southwest as Contact Zone: Reading ‘Chicana/o’ and ‘Native American’ in Relation." Considers Chicana/o and Native American texts and cultures in a comparative framework and examines how these texts explore historical and contemporary connections between groups of people in the United States and the Americas. May also be taken when listed as "Chicana/o and Filipina/o-American Literatures & Cultures in Comparison." To be taught as "The Southwest as Contact Zone" Fall 2006. Instructor: María DeGuzmán.
English 666: Queer Latina/o Literature and Photography. This course explores Latina/o literature about photography in relation to photography by queer Latina/o artists and, through this double focus poses certain questions about identity, subjectivity, and culture. Spring 2007. Instructor: María DeGuzmán.
English 179 now English 685: "Imagen doblada: Photography in Latina/o Short Fiction of the Americas" (to be taught in the new curriculum as English 685): Literature of the Americas and cross-listed with Comparative Literature. Multi-disciplinary examination of texts and other media of the Americas (with 50% of the course involving U.S. Latina/o work), in English and Spanish, from a variety of genres. Pre-requisite, two years of college-level Spanish or the equivalent. Spring 2006 and Spring 2009.
Courses offered by the History Department:
History 100 now History 574: Spain in North America, new proposed course, upper-division lecture class. This course examines the history of the Spanish colonial experience in North America. Topics will include pre-Columbian southwestern, plains, Californian, and Mississippi valley cultures, conquistadors, priests, slaves, missions, trade fairs, the diverse and changing lives of Native Americans, horses, buffalo, marriage, war, and the shifting boundaries of Spain’s colonial claims. This course has historical relevance for Latina/o Studies in that it introduces students to the complex colonial hybridity of Hispanic North America. Instructor: Kathleen DuVal.
History 145 now History 561: The American Colonial Experience [from a multicultural perspective]. This course examines the history of Native North America, the Europeans (the Spanish, French, and English) who colonized North America, and the Africans brought as slaves, to 1763. Latino/a Studies minors will write their papers on Spanish colonization and will have some readings available in Spanish. Instructor: Kathleen DuVal. Fall 2007.
Course offered by the Music Department:
Music 147: Introduction to Latin/o American Music. Nuyorican and Puerto Rican rap and reggae? Venezuelan salsa? Chicana/o rap? Peruvian rock? Gangsta corridos? Martinican zouk from Paris? Brazilian psychedelic rock? All of these musical names describe the state of contemporary popular music of Latin(o) America and beyond. These musical repertoires and cultures exist and thrive in settings throughout Latin American, the Caribbean, the United States, and even Europe that are increasingly marked by globalization. They also reflect the enduring importance of claiming a national and ethnic identity in an otherwise transnational and globalizing musical world. This course will introduce students to Latin American music of the Americas (including the United States) while focusing on the political, economic, social, and cultural forces that have shaped in large part the transnational state of Latin American music and culture. With transnationalism and cultural hybridity as our underlying themes, we will focus on how race, class, political ideologies, cultural hegemony, and musical styles have divided and reshaped relations within Latin(o) communities as well as among Latin(o) and non-Latin(o) groups in Puerto Rico, Brazil, Texas, Venezuela, New York City, Trinidad, Martinique, Los Angeles, Peru, and other cities and nations. In addition, by examining videos, video programs, and other mass media products, we will explore how marketing strategies also shape the music that groups claim as their cultural and national heritage. Instructor: David F. García. Tuesdays and Thursdays from 2:00 - 3:15 PM. Fall 2006, Hill Hall 103. To be taught again Fall 2007 at a different time: M, W. and F. from 10 - 10:50 am. This course will not be offered again until after Fall 2008.
Courses offered by the Department of Romance Languages:
Spanish 389: Los cubanos en la diáspora: literatura y cultura. Required Reading: Reinaldo Arenas, Viaje a la Habana; Daína Chaviano, La isla de los amores infinitos; Nilo Cruz, Hortensia and the Museum of Dreams; Carlos Eire, Waiting for Snow in Havana; Cristina García, Dreaming in Cuban; Melinda López, Sonia Flew; Achy Obejas, Days of Awe; and Mirta Ojito, Finding Mañana: A Memoir of a Cuban Exodus. Course Requirments: midterm (40%), Final (40%), and 2 papers (20%). Readings will be in Spanish and English, according to the original language of each text, so students must be proficient in Spanish (must have completed Spanish 73 or the equivalent). Instructor: Rosa Perelmuter. Fall 2008.
Spanish 398 (seminar) open to qualified undergraduates. Topic: Los cubanos en la diáspora: literatura y cultura. Works by writers such as Reinaldo Arenas, Daína Chaviano, Carlos Eire, Cristina García, Ana Menéndez, Achy Obejas, Mirta Ojito, Virgil Suárez, and Zoe Valdés. Readings will be in Spanish and English, according to the original language of each text, so students must be proficient in Spanish, that is, must have completed Spanish 73 or the equivalent. Instructor: Rosa Perelmuter. Spring 2007.
Spanish 96A/Spanish 398 (variable topics course): Cuban Literature and Culture: Inside/Outside (most readings will be in Spanish). In this course we will sample a variety of contemporary Cuban and Cuban-American texts (novels, autobiography, short stories, poetry), music and films in order to gain an understanding of the breadth and complexity of expression found in the literary and cultural production of Cubans in the island and in the United States. Students will keep a Spanish-language diary of primary and secondary readings (40% of the grade; will be collected in three installments) and write a research paper in Spanish (10–15 pp; 60%). Primary readings will include: 1. Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Vista del amanecer en el trópico; 2. Miguel Barnet, Canción de Rachel; 3. Nicolás Guillén, Tengo; 4. Senel Paz, El lobo, el bosque, y el hombre nuevo; 5. Leonardo Padura, Máscaras; 6. Reinaldo Arenas, Viaje de la Habana; 7. Cristina Garcia, Dreaming in Cuban; and 8. Carlos Eire, Waiting for Snow in Havana. This course will attempt to develop a dialogue between the literature produced by Cubans in the island and in diaspora from 1960 to the present. Lectures, class discussions, and most readings will be in Spanish. Instructor: Rosa Perelmuter.
1 in Social Sciences or Latina/o Communities & Cultural Space. Courses included in this rubric would be:
Courses offered by the Departments of Anthropology and African/Afro-American Studies:
Anthropology 30 is now Anthropology 130: Anthropology of the Caribbean. This course examines some of the key issues that anthropologists explore when studying the Caribbean. It will introduce students to theories and examples of how Caribbean people of different backgrounds and status life, act, and think of themselves as well as how non-Caribbeans (especially North Americans) conceive of people and places in the Caribbean region. It also will consider the nature of relations between Caribbeans and non-Caribbeans (especially Europeans and North Americans) in a contemporary and historical context. Among the Caribbean people examined are Afro-Cubans and Afro-Cubans in the United States. This course constitutes part of the Afro-Latina/o component of the Minor. Instructor: Karla Slocum. Tues. & Thurs. 12:30 - 1:45 PM. Fall 2005.
AFAM 140: Diaspora Art and Cultural Politics. The focus is on the articulation of diaspora consciousness as it is manifested through art and culture and its socio-political contexts. The course visits debates about the meanings of diaspora but also covers other terminologies and theories associated with identity, subjectivity, essentialism, transnationalism, indigeneity, race, ethnicity, mestizaje, etc. It is an interdisciplinary course and, although there are course texts, the course draws on periodical literature and makes extensive use of film/video. Course texts are Fabre and Benesch's African Diasporas in the New and Old Worlds: Consciousness and Imagination and Richard Powell's Black Art: A Cultural History. Collateral texts are Walker's African Roots/American Cultures and Okpewho, Davies, and Mazrui's The African Diaspora. 55-60% is US based (Powell's book) and includes a good deal of work on Puerto Rican, Dominican as well as other Afro-Latin formations rising in the US, particularly on questions of identity, race, caste, class and ethnicity. Cultural workers are featured from different activist perspectives, with emphasis on movements that employ popular/traditional art forms to build and maintain community (i.e., Candomble, Macumba, Lucumi formations in Afro-Latin communities throughout the US, impact on music by Latino forms, the art, for example of Taller Puertoriqueno in Philadelphia) Aya de Leon is scheduled to speak to the class. Instructor: Joseph Jordan. Pending approval for inclusion in the Minor by the Administrative Board. To be taught again Spring 2008.
Please note that AFAM 095 is now numbered AFAM 190, section 2: The African Diaspora in the Americas. The African Diaspora in the Americas is an interdisciplinary survey and examination of the creation of the African descendant communities in north, central, and south America. It will focus on the development and expression of African (or Black) identities in the context of the Americas. It will consider the theoretical literature, the problem of competing definitions of "diaspora," as well as ongoing controversies in the field. Emphasis will be placed on the role of socio-historical forces in the creation of the African diaspora, and the re-creation of cultural connections/expressions in the American context. In addition to the readings and texts assigned to the course, students will engage a range of resources including film, literature, narrative and song, folklore and other media. Required texts: Afro-Latin America, 1800–2000 by George Reid Andrews, Rise and Fall of the Cosmic Race: The Cult of Mestizaje in Latin America by Marilyn Grace Miller, Neither Enemies nor Friends: Latinos, Blacks, Afro-Latinos ed. by Anani Dzidzienyo and Suzanne Oboler, and New York Ricans from the Hip-Hop Zone by Raquel Z. Rivera. Instructor: Joseph Jordan. Tues. & Thurs. 3:30 - 4:45 PM. Fall 2005. To be taught again Fall 2007. Pending approval for inclusion in the Minor by the Administrative Board.
AFAM 78 now AFAM 278: Black Caribbeans in the United States. This course looks at the experiences of Black Caribbean immigrants in the United States, the activities in which they participate as well as their shifting senses of who they are—their identities. It considers these themes within three contexts: urban political life, everyday community or family life, popular culture, and the African American community. That is, it explores how Caribbean immigrants’ lives take shape in the realm of urban politics, everyday life, specific community/cultural events, and within the African American community. Central questions we will address include: How have Caribbean immigrants’ activities been part of what we in the U.S. know to be the African-American experience, and how (and when) have they become distinct? How is Caribbean immigrants’ racial and national identity shaped by U.S. politics and racial categorization along with Caribbean notions of nationhood, color, and status? How does Caribbean culture and a Caribbean identity shift in the US context? This course constitutes part of the Afro-Latina/o component of the Minor as well as the part of the minor that puts U.S. Latina/o Studies in dialogue with Caribbean Studies. Instructor: Karla Slocum. Tues. 3:30 - 6:20 PM. Fall 2006. To be offered again Fall 2009.
Courses offered by the Geography Department:
Geography 6 now Geography 56: "Local Places in a Globalizing World." This is an intro level course and a first year seminar. It focuses on the following questions: How do international and global processes affect local places? Is it possible for local people to affect global processes? This seminar examines the relationship between globalization and localization in order to think about how we--as individuals and groups--make a difference in the world. Examining cultural, economic, and political dynamics, we will consider how local North Carolina communities are linked to other places in the world. How were global connections established and maintained? What individuals and groups were involved and has this changed over time? What challenges and opportunities accompany these distant connections? Students in the class engage basic social theoretical concepts that have been used to understand globalization and transnationalism. We also examine Latina/o migration in North Carolina (and the United States) and think about ways migration may challenge (or confirm) some of the concepts and theories. Instructor: Altha Cravey. Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:00 - 3:15 PM. Fall 2006.
Geography 152 now Geography 452: "Mobile Geographies (Migration)." This course focuses on Latinos and Latinas who have migrated to North Carolina in recent years as well as explores local social change, transnationality, translocality, and related theoretical concerns. How are the politics of identity and place-identity caught up in local experiences? Do Latinos/as establish parallel worlds in the rural South? Do geographies of work determine the pattern of settlement for new migrants? These questions will be contextualized by examining historical and geographical changes in global and regional migratory impulses. Instructor: Altha Cravey. Fall 2007, Spring 2008, and Fall 2008.
Geography 804: "NAFTA, Neoliberalism, and North Carolina." Seminar open to Juniors, Seniors, and Graduate Students. Still in the design stage but coming soon. Please check with Dr. Altha Cravey at ajcravey@email.unc.edu.
Geography 814: "Mobile Geographies: The Political Economy of Migration." Open to qualified undergraduates. In this seminar we will read widely on migration, with a particular emphasis on various conceptual frameworks that engage political economic and feminist perspectives on human movement. We will spend the first four weeks reading classic works before turning to contemporary scholarly literature. The goal of the course is to explore the connections among international migration, transnational networks, globalization and cultural/social change, although related issues (e.g. environmental effects; migration at smaller geographical scales; refugeee migration; temporary forms of international migration) will be considered as well. Each student will be responsible for leading one or two seminar discussions and all will write short essays in response to 4-5 distinct topics. The course is designed to appeal to students in geography and related fields such as sociology, anthropology, political science, International Studies, Latin American Studies, and history. Instructor: Altha Cravey. Tuesdays 5:00 - 7:30 PM. Fall 2006.
Courses offered by International Studies:
INTS 390: "Latin American Migrant Perspectives: Ethnography and Action." This class combines fieldwork, migration theory, and service learning in a course that examines Latina/o immigrant perspectives. Students will research and work with immigrants in receiving communities in North Carolina and spend Spring Break in immigrants' home communities in Guanajuato, Mexico. The course will address ethical and practical aspects of the ethnographic method including the preparation, transaction, and transcription of interviews. Using these skills outside the classroom, students will choose an issue related to immigration and conduct interviews with community members to gain an understanding of the impact of migration on the community and how newcomers adapt to a new place. Instructor: Hannah Gill. Pending approval for inclusion in the Latina/o Studies Minor. If you are taking this course Spring 2008, you may petition for credit for the Latina/o Studies Minor. The course will be offered again Spring 2009.
Course offered by the Department of Public Policy:
Public Policy 49/International Studies 83 now Public Policy 249: "New Immigrants and the South" to be taught in the new curriculum as Public Policy 249: "New Immigration and the South: Immigration Policy in the 21st Century." This course is designed to introduce students to the field of immigration policy. In the past decade, record numbers of people have left their home countries, especially in Asian and Central America, and have migrated to the U.S. There are many reasons for this, including civil war, ethnic strife, natural disasters, the breakdown of the communist block, economic pressures, and the simple hope for a better life. The American South has become an important part of this migratory flow and north Carolina has the fastest growing Latino population in the country. These massive population movements generate complex problems for state, national, and international policy makers. The objective of this course is to enhance students’ understanding of the causes and consequences of U.S. immigration within social, historical, political, and economic contexts. Instructor: Krista Perreira. Spring 2008 and then again Spring 2010.
Course offered by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication:
JOMC 443 (formerly JOMC 191.2 and JOMC 490.02). "Latino/a Media Studies." An introductory course to Latino media studies that covers three major areas. First, it analyzes the media portrayal of Latinos in the U.S. mainstream media. Second, it examines the media catering to U.S. Latinos, including both transnational media (e.g., Mexican telenovelas) and local ethnic media in the continental United States (e.g., New York's newspaper El Diario-La Prensa). Third, the course explores the way in which U.S. Latino audiences use the multiple media offerings available to them. TTH 12:30 - 1:45, Carroll 143. Instructor: Lucila Vargas. Spring 2006, Fall 2007, and Fall 2008. Pending approval for inclusion in the Minor.
Electives (3 of them): Any of the courses not taken as cores listed above may be taken as well as:
AFAM 54 now AFAM 254: "Blacks in Latin America." The course explores various social, pedagogical, and historical issues which frame Black Studies (i.e. racial categorization, the creation of race), The branches that make up Latino culture (its Iberian, indigenous, and African strands) are examined as well. The perception of the two "new worlds" and the people from there composes the next part of the course as does the process that led to the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade which brought the Africans to the west. Instructor: Kia Caldwell. Spring 2008.
Drama 86 now Drama 486: "Latin American Theater." This course explores the historical and aesthetic development of the Latin American theatre, focusing upon particular factors that distinguish this theatre from the Western European tradition. The course includes several units on Latina/o drama and performance. Instructor: Adam Versenyi. Fall 2005 and Fall 2007.Drama 488: Latina/o Theatre and Performance. This course investigates Latino/a theatre texts and performance practices as a discreet genre within the larger context of theatre in the United States. Students will study what distinguishes Latino/a theatre from the larger dominant (European American) culture, as well as the diversity of forms, styles, and theatrical practices within Latino/a theatre itself. Instructor: Adam Versenyi. Spring 2009.
2 of these electives should be in different categories from one another. In other words, a student may take 2 electives in the Humanities and one more in the Social Sciences or vice versa.
Latino/a Studies Courses at Duke: http://latino.aas.duke.edu/academics/courses.php
Library Resources in Latin American/Caribbean/Iberian/Latina/o of Relevance to Latina/o Studies:
Major Latin American Collections Nationwide including the Southeast
UNC Latin American and Iberian Resources: http://www.lib.unc.edu/cdd/crs/international/latin/index.html
Bibliographer for these resources at UNC-CH's Davis Library is Teresa Chapa, tchapa@unc.edu
Alexander Street Press Database of Latino Literature
Duke Latin American, Spanish, and Portuguese Resources: http://www.lib.duke.edu/ias/latamer/collect.htm
Bibliographer at Duke's Perkins Library is Hortensia Calvo, hcalvo@duke.edu
Emory University's Oxford College guide to latinolinks: http://www.emory.edu/OXFORD/Library/Guide/latinolinks.htm
Tulane Latin American Library: http://lal.tulane.edu
University of Florida at Gainesville Latin American Collection: http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/lac/
Vanderbilt Resources for Latin American Studies: http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/central/latam.html
Latin American Studies Southeast Region (LASER): http://www.tulane.edu/~latinlib/laser.html
Biblioteca de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, recinto de Rio Piedras: http://biblioteca.rrp.upr.edu/
Latina/o Studies Journals (not regionally bound):
Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies: http://www.chicano.ucla.edu/press/journals/default.asp
Centro de estudios puertorriqueños (bilingual): http://www.centropr.org/journal/submission-guidelines.html
Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social. Website to be announced. Email Dr. Alicia Partnoy, co-senior editor if you have questions: apartnoy@lmu.edu
Hopscotch: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/hop/
Journal of Latin American Anthropology: http://www.fiu.edu/~jlaa/
Latino(a) Research Review: http://www.albany.edu/celac/docs.lrb/submit.html
Latino Studies Journal
Nepantla: Views from South: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/nep/
Recent Books about Latina/o Issues: http://journals.dartmouth.edu/latinox/resource_center/media5.shtml
Recommended US Latina/o Websites: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~savega/us_latin.htm
Latinas/os and the Media: Check out The Latinos and Media Project at: www.latinosandmedia.org
Latina/o Magazines and Higher Education: The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education Magazine at: www.hispanicoutlook.com
Latina/o Art Resources listed through the UNC Library System: http://www.lib.unc.edu/art/latinoart/index.html. If you have questions about this area of the Sloane Art Library collection, please contact Patricia Thompson at patt@unc.edu.
Latino Studies Library Research Guide: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~savega/latino.html
Latina/o Studies Programs: Inter-University Program for Latino Research
Selected University Latina/o Studies Programs: Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Indiana University, New York University, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Michigan, etc.
Minority Fellowships Websites (not regionally bound):
http://cuinfo.cornell.edu/Student/GRFN/list.phtml?category=MINORITIES
MURAP (Moore Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program & Educational Diversity):
http://www.unc.edu/depts/murap/about.html
Latina Teen Empowerment Project: Latinitas, Inc. at: www.latinitasmagazine.org
Internet Resources for Ethnic Studies:http://www2.lib.udel.edu/subj/ethst/internet.htm
Chican@ Website Pathfinder (includes Latina/o Resources in General): http://atm-info.com/pathfind.htm
Hispanic/Latino Resources from the University of Texas at Austin: http://www1.lanic.utexas.edu/la/region/hispanic/
Puerto Rico y el Sueño Americano: http://prdream.com/index.html
The Duke-UNC Consortium in Latin American Studies: http://www.duke.edu/web/carolinadukeconsortium
UNC - CH Institute for the Study of the Americas (ISA) Resource Page: http://www.unc.edu/depts/ilas/local_resources.html
Area Events:
The ongoing UNC-CH Latina/o Culture(s) Speakers' Series: http://english.unc.edu/latina-o/speakers.html
Festival on the Hill 2008: Transcending Borders: Latin American and Latina/o Music in North Carolina and the United States, March 27-30, 2008, UNC Chapel Hill. Celebrating the contributions of Latin American and Latina/o music and culture in the United States. Please visit the Festival on the Hill's website:
http://music.unc.edu/festivalonthehill2008/
for more information on events and participants.
Noteworthy News Articles & Statistics:
Endeavors article "Emerging Culture" on Latinas/os in North Carolina: http://research.unc.edu/endeavors/spr2004/latino.html
Latino Population Statistics: http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/hispanic.html
Migration Dialogue: http://migration.ucdavis.edu
North Carolina Latina/o Links:
¡Ayúdate! in partnership with N.C. Governor's Office for Latino/Hispanic Affairs
Cooperative Comunitaria Latina de Crédito/Latino Community Credit Union
Hispanics in Philanthropy - North Carolina
http://www.newsouthproductions.com/links.htm
North Carolina AHEC Latino Health Resource Center
North Carolina Latino Coalition
North Carolina Society of Hispanic Professionals
North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services: Contact Rogelio Valencia, Hispanic Ombudsman
Nuestra Comunidad: Latinos in North Carolina: http://www.newsouthproductions.com/documentaries.htm
School of Public Health Minority Health Project: http://www.minority.unc.edu
Comprendiendo los fundamentos de la epidemiología: un texto en desarrollo/ Understanding the fundamentals of epidemiology
Institutes for Social Justice and Community Organization Websites:
Southeastern Regional Economic Justice Network (Southeast REJN): http://www.rejn.org/
Student Action with Farmworkers: http://www.saf-unite.org
Farm Labor Organizing Committee: http://www.floc.com
National Council of La Raza: http://www.nclr.org
El Centro Hispano, Inc. (Durham, NC): http://www.elcentronc.org
El Pueblo: http://www.elpueblo.org/index.html
Mujeres Unidas y Activas: http://www.mujeresunidas.net/index.html
Student Organizations:
Carolina Diversity Links: http://planning.unc.edu/diversity/divlinks.htm
Chispa (The Carolina Hispanic Association) and ¡Que Rico!: http://www.unc.edu/student/orgs/chispa/about.html
Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity (La Unidad Latina): http://www.geocities.com/lul_ai
Latinas Promoviendo Comunidad / Lambda Pi Chi, Sorority Inc.: http://www.unc.edu/lpc
Mi Gente at Duke: http://www.duke.edu/web/migente/
The Scholars' Latino Initiative: http://www.unc.edu/sli/
Latina/o Music and Afro-Latina/o Cultural Collaborations:
Montas Lounge: http://www.montaslounge.com
Samecumba: http://www.samecumba.net
Puerto Rican online newspaper: El Nuevo Día Interactivo
Global Latin American and Latina/o News Service: www.terra.com
Welcome to the Other America within the longtime transnational South:
What's in a name? What's written into the land? What past? What future?
Alabama: Andalusia, Fort Spanish, Madrid, Buena Vista, Gordo, Cordova, Cuba
Arkansas: El Dorado, Bella Vista, Manila, Lepanto, El Paso, Ola, Casa, Moro
Florida: Pontevedra, Fernandina, Mayo, Matanzas, Favorita, Havana, Hernando, Altamonte, San Antonio, St. Leo, Buena Vista, Largo, De Soto City, Boca Grande, Placida, Bonita Springs, Boca Raton, Ponce de Leon, Naranja, Boca Chica, Key Largo, Vaca Key
Georgia: Buena Vista, Unadilla, Seville, De Soto, Montezuma, Nuñez, Rincon, Isabella, Pavo, Valdosta, Ocilla, Ft. Frederica, Mora
Kentucky: Monterey, Sacramento, Sonora, Seco, Cadiz, Mexico
Louisiana: Bonita, Olla, Toro, Monterey, Feliciana, Jota, Iberville, Gonzalez, Marrero, Lake Barataria, Barataria Bay, Salvador
Mississippi: Tunica, Jacinto, Como, Saltillo, Bolivar, Buena Vista, Anguilla, Pinola, De Soto, Gitano, Ozona
North Carolina: Como, Barco, Corolla, Casar, Eldorado, Cordova, Colon, Cerro Grande, Bolivia, Maribel, Oriental
South Carolina: Campobello, Mayo, Saluda, Valencia Heights, Cordova
Tennessee: Monterey, Alcoa, Isabella
Virginia: Callao, Chula, Montebello
West Virginia: Alma, Bolivar, Spanishburg
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Questions or suggestions, email Dr. María DeGuzmán at deguzman@email.unc.edu
Updated 5/21/08
