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Fall 2020 | CHIC 3212 Section 001: Chicana Feminism: La Chicana in Contemporary Society (14814)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Online Course
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Off Campus
Virtual Rooms ONLINEONLY
- Enrollment Status:
Open (24 of 25 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Scholarly/creative work of Chicanas or politically defined women of Mexican American community. Interdisciplinary. Historical context, cultural process, and autoethnography.
- Class Description:
This 3-unit seminar explores the scholarly, activist and creative work of Chicanas or politically defined women of the Mexican American community. The readings and learning activities are interdisciplinary in nature, drawing on a wide variety of fields and expertise. We will emphasize the historical, political, socioeconomic and cultural contexts of Chicana authors and artists; look at various cultural processes and social structures relevant to Mexican American women's lives; learn, analyze and critique Chicana feminist perspectives, theories, methods and modes of inquiry, paying attention to their strategic uses of autoethnography in the creation of Chicana subjectivity, identities, and aesthetics.
Chicana feminist theorists have made numerous interventions in social science and humanities scholarship, particularly against notions of biological determinism and cultural fatalism (aka culture of poverty). Their work illuminates our multiple identities (race, class, gender, sexuality, etc.) and advocates for the centrality of experiential knowledge. Course materials and assignments invite introspective exploration. How do you interpret the readings? How does your social location impact your analysis? How we move through the world, our daily actions, inform our understanding of others and ourselves. In addition, Chicana feminisms' foundation is built on collectivity over individual gain. Therefore, we will learn, discuss, and generate knowledge collectively, prioritizing both process and product. - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/14814/1209
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 16 July 2020
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