BCULST 589A – Topics in Global Cultural Studies (UW Bothell)

This course will center on the question, how is culture used to articulate resistance? We will look at some of the rich history of political cultural production in Latin America, the Caribbean, and diaspora used by social movement actors as voices of resistance and opposition. Specifically, we will focus on music, murals, graffiti art, popular theater, testimonies, memory activism, and fictional writing as means of conveying revolutionary activism and committing marginalized voices to the historical archives. We will look at examples from Argentina, Chile, Cuba, El Salvador, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, and the diaspora.