Examines hip hop music and culture since its inception and addresses the contexts for its emergence in U.S. cities: sampling, cultural crossings, market forces, aesthetics, popular culture debates, race, culture, gender, sexuality, and class. (General Education Code(s): E.)
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Examines Chicana/o music. Topics include corridos and border rebellion, music and social movements, Chicano radio and record industries, Chicanas/os and the emergence of rock and roll, Latin American/Latino music, and contemporary Chicana/o music. (General Education Code(s): E.)
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Examines the formations and contestations of social, political, and cultural identities for Chicanas and Chicanos through a critical study of select Mexican American texts and films. (General Education Code(s): E.)
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Selected topics on Asian American culture, religion, music, foodways, literature, theater, film, and/or art. May be repeated for credit. (General Education Code(s): E.)
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Course assumes that war is key element in transpacific formation of Asian America and attempts to examine wars in Asia/Pacific region from Filipino-American through the Pacific, Korean, and Vietnam Wars U.S. has participated in and to ask how war memories have shaped the Asian American experience and reconfigured notion of the homeland. Looks at specific Asian American texts to discuss issues of ethnicity, politics of memory, immigration, and diaspora in respective war context and considers impact of cold war as transpacific structure of ideological determination. Enrollment limited to 60. (General Education Code(s): E.)
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Examines the history and culture of Filipinos in the U.S. from 1763 to present day within the context of colonial and postcolonial relations between the Philippines and the U.S. Topics include immigration, labor, community, identity, politics, and contemporary issues. (General Education Code(s): E.)
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Examines the intersectionality of race, class, gender, and sexuality in the history and lives of Asian American women from a woman-centered perspective. Topics include immigration, work, family, identities, sexploitation, and political and social activism. Students cannot receive credit for this course and History 189. (General Education Code(s): E.)
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Examines the history, culture, and politics of Chinese Americans from the California Gold Rush to present day within the context of socioeconomic and political developments in China and the U.S. Topics include immigration and labor patterns; race, gender, and class dynamics; family and community development; identity politics; and cultural expressions. (General Education Code(s): E.)
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Examines South Asian migration to the U.S., with specific attention to historical and political contexts of immigration and to (re)configurations of culture, politics, and identity in the South Asian American diaspora. (General Education Code(s): E.)
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Examines major debates about national culture in the U.S., considered in the context of ethnic, class, gendered, and other subnational and transnational cultural formations and of relevant social, political, and cultural theory. Enrollment restricted to senior American studies majors. Enrollment limited to 20.
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Examines the history and state of the field of American studies. Investigates current debates in the field, with a focus on recent calls for a "post-nationalist" American studies, and begins to chart some of the directions in which the field is moving. Encourages students to reflect on their education in American studies at UCSC. (Formerly
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As a culminating experience in the major, the seminar intends to encourage seniors to meditate critically on what American studies is and what it will be in the future. Focuses much attention on recent calls for a "post-nationalist" American studies, considers the possibilities/problems such imperatives bring, and analyzes recent work in this direction. Enrollment limited to 20.
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Examines race relations in western U.S. with particular emphasis upon California since 1945. Students examine the experiences of African Americans, Asian Americans, European Americans, Mexican Americans, and Native Americans and how class and gender politics shape and, at times, become the language for race relations. Enrollment restricted to senior American studies majors. Enrollment limited to 20. (General Education Code(s): E.)
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Explores the ways in which the virtual and the real overlap, constitute, and critique each other, and uses each to illuminate cultural and theoretical discussions around race, gender, sexuality, and labor. Enrollment restricted to senior American studies majors. Enrollment limited to 25.
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Study of evolution illustrated by Pleistocene hominid fossils and variation in living human groups. Behavior and evolution of primates examined as they contribute to the understanding of human evolution. Required for all anthropology majors. (General Education Code(s): IN.)
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A number of different peoples are studied and a variety of approaches to the nature of the culture and to the study of specific cultures presented. Required for all anthropology majors. (General Education Code(s): IS.)
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Overview of ways of learning about the human past beyond the scope of written history. Reviews development of archaeology, fundamental methods and theories, and archaeology's contribution to understanding human origins, the emergence of farming, and the origins of complex societies. (General Education Code(s): IS.)
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How can cultural anthropology help us to understand current events unfolding locally, nationally, and globally? Students learn how to "read" newspapers differently—that is, through the lens of cultural analysis. The world of everyday politics and society, as it unfolds in debates happening right now, forms the topical substance of the course. (General Education Code(s): IS.)
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Seminars taught by upper-division students under faculty supervision. (See course 192.)
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Survey of the position and roles of women in African societies with different social, political, and economic organizations. Will be offered in the 2006–07 academic year. Offered in alternate academic years. (General Education Code(s): T3-Social Sciences, E.)
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Present-day values and social life of selected sub-Saharan African people examined using anthropological studies and African literature. (General Education Code(s): T3-Social Sciences, E.)
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Introduces students to a broad sampling of verbal and nonverbal forms of Mexican folklore. Concentrates on experiencing these forms through texts, film, and if possible, performances. Attention to how these forms have been used by scholars to comment on Mexican culture is an underlying theme. Knowledge of Spanish is useful but not required. Will be offered in the 2009–2010 academic year. (General Education Code(s): T3-Social Sciences, E.)
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Explores relationships between culture and the acoustic worlds, including environmental, verbal, and musical, which humans inhabit. How can paying attention to cultures of listening and sound-making help us think about cultural life and experience in new ways? (General Education Code(s): T3-Social Sciences.)
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Introduces key issues in the anthropology of Latin America, with emphasis on identity formation, cultural practices, and power. Major themes include race, class, and gender as intersecting forms of oppression, violence, and terror and indigenous social movements. Will be offered in the 2009–2010 academic year. (General Education Code(s): T3-Social Sciences, E.)
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Introduces current issues in cultural anthropology using film as a medium with which to explore culture. Raises questions about visual representations and the portrayal of cultural difference in the context of global inequalities. (General Education Code(s): T3-Social Sciences.)
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