Spanish 230HY - Identities & Intersections: An Introduction: 'Hybrid Identities of the Spanish-Speaking World'

With a historical approach, this survey course will explore bi/multicultural identities and communities in the Spanish- speaking world primarily of the 20th and 21st centuries. Korean-Argentineans, Cuban-Americans, Afro-Peruvians, Moroccans and Gypsies in Spain, Chinatowns, Spanglish, Is Catalonia Spain? Through literary and audiovisual texts, we will put situations of ethnic and linguistic hybridity in dialogue with one another and focus on how communities and identities are represented, aspired to, reclaim rights and space, and/or slip away when we try to define them.

Prereq: SPAN-212.