Latinx Popular Culture

This course explores the construction, imaging, and experience of the racialized Latinx body while considering modern regimes of power. It examines legacies of White supremacy and Coloniality in relation to cultural production and the Latinx body. This course's pedagogical approach is rooted in Chicana/o Studies and will examine power in relation to Latinx and other communities of color--it does not focus on Mexican/Latinx communities exclusively. When analyzing power, it recognizes the importance of contextualizing visual, audio, and embodied performative representations of culture to understand how the body constantly speaks back to power.