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What was/is Spanish America? This course explores the processes of formation and transformation of the Spanish Americas from pre-Columbian and New World societies through the crucial issues of the globalized Americas today and tomorrow. Topics vary from semester to semester but focus on issues of language, ideology, national identity, race, class, gender, ethnicity, myths, customs and institutions as students examine the material products of folklore, music, the arts, architecture, film, popular culture. Questions of migration, diaspora, cultural hybridity, and modernity are addressed through texts and visual media. Taught in Spanish. |