Latina Popular Culture

Catalog description

This first-year seminar explores Latina representation in U.S. popular culture from the 1940s to the present. We will be analyzing different “texts” ranging from film, television, music, print, and digital media in our discussions of Latina subjectivity. We will consider how media form and genre shapes the production and consumption of Latina identities. Additionally, we will focus on how issues of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, and age shape our understanding of Latina representation across time and place. How have Latinas been portrayed within mainstream popular culture? How do audiences and consumers receive/reinterpret prevailing themes and tropes? How have Latina creatives reimagined and reclaimed dominant imagery? This class is a writing-designated (WRIT) course and has no prerequisites.