Cultural studies in the curriculum: teaching Latin America

From culture into cultural studies in Latin America / Jill S. Kuhnheim and Danny J. Anderson

I: Situating pedagogy

Colonial studies as cultural studies: theoretical and pedagogical issues in classroom practice / Gustavo Verdesio

The politics of representation: reading Chicano/a narratives as cultural ethnographies / Jesse Alemán

Teaching Brazilian civilization: interdisciplinary and institutional pragmatics in cultural studies / Piers Armstrong

II: Thematic practices / The Latin American city: a cultural studies approach / Luis Fernando Restrepo

Cultures of the lyric and lyrical culture: teaching poetry and cultural studies / Jill S. Kuhnheim

Cultural studies and business Spanish: a critique of imperialism / Danny J. Anderson

III: Cultural identities

Drums of resistance: hybridization, cultural imperialism, and Caribbean popular culture in the classroom / Kirwin R. Shaffer

Surfing the oblique: Latino / Latin American cultural studies in Hawai'i / Joy Logan

An approach to gender and sexuality studies in the undergraduate curriculum / Robert McKee Irwin

Sample course syllabi

1. The Incas and other Andean peoples / Gustavo Verdesio

2. Mexican American literature / Jesse Alemán

3. Brazilian culture and civilization / Piers Armstrong

4. Cities in Latin America / Luis Fernando Restrepo

5. Language and culture for business in Spanish America / Danny J. Anderson

6. Before Machismo: gender and sexuality in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century Mexico / Robert McKee Irwin.