LATS 246
Aesthetics and Place-making in Latina/o New York
Last Offered Spring 2018
Division II
Cross-listed AMST 246
This course is not offered in the current catalog

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New York City has long served as a nexus of Latina/o migration and settlement since the late nineteenth century. From the New York sound of Afro-Cuban and Puerto Rican salsa to the poetics of slam poetry forged in the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, New York’s Latinas/os have defined and developed numerous forms of Latina/o popular expression. This course examines the aesthetic foundations of Latina/o New York, remaining attentive to the numerous diasporas that have migrated to and made the city their home. Student will engage with a multiplicity of popular cultural genres including memoirs, literature, poetry, sound, visual art, and photography in the context of the history of the city while focusing on key themes of racial formation, the politics of space and place, and the labor of culture.
The Class: Format: lecture/discussion
Limit: 20
Expected: 15
Class#: 3196
Grading: no pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: attendance and class participation, short writing exercises, 4- to 5-page midterm paper close-reading a text, and a 10- to 15-page final paper
Prerequisites: none
Enrollment Preferences: LATS concentrators and AMST majors
Distributions: Division II
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
LATS 246 Division II AMST 246 Division II
Attributes: AMST Comp Studies in Race, Ethnicity, Diaspora
AMST Space and Place Electives
LATS Core Electives

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