Stanford University CASA150C / CASA150C-03 / SPANLIT180E : Introduction to Chicana/o Cultural Studies - Syllabus Winter 2003

Instructors and Office Hours: Renato Rosaldo M 2-3, W 1-3 / Office 111M, Bldg 110 Main Quad Edit | Remove Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano W 1:30-3:30 / Office: 260-215 Edit | Remove Teaching Assistant - Tim Webmoor tim.webmoor@stanford.edu W 2-3, Th 1-2/Office 112A Bldg 110 Main Quad Edit | Remove Teaching Assistant - Dante Angelo T 11-12, Th 11-12 / Office 112K Bldg 110 Main Quad Edit | Remove Syllabus and Reading Schedule: (R) indicates the reading can be found in the course reader. Tuesday, January 7: Themes and Introduction Film: I Am Joaquín, dir. Luis Valdez, by Rodolpho “Corky” Gonzales. El Centro Campesino Cultural and Teatro Campesino, 1969. Readings: (R) Rodolpho “Corky” Gonzales, I am Joaquin. Delano, CA: Farm Workers Press, 1967. (R José Montoya, "El Louie" in Palabra: A Sampling of Contemporary Latino Writers. Benjamín Alire Sáenz and Rosemary Catacalos, eds. San Francisco: The Poetry Center and the American Poetry Archives, 1993, pp. 14-17. Thursday, January 9: Icons, Identities and Critiques Film: Chicana! dir. Sylvia Morales, 1979. Readings: (R) Chicana poetry from the 1970s. Selections from: Tey Diana Rebolledo and Eliana S. Rivero, eds., Infinite Divisions: An Anthology of Chicana Literature. Tucson: U of Arizona Press, 1993. “La Loca de la Raza Cósmica” by la Chrisx “Para Un Revolucionario” by Lorna Dee Cervantes “Como Duele” by Adaljiza Sosa-Riddell “Para Teresa” by Inés Hernández “Lírica fanática/Fanatic Lyric” by Margarita Cota-Cárdenas Tuesday, January 14: Historical Roots and Rutas Readings: (R) Albert Camarillo, "Latin Americans: Mexican Americans and Central Americans" in Mary Kupiec Cayton, Elliott J. Gorn, and Peter W. Williams, eds., Encyclopedia of American Social History, Vol. II. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, n.d. pp. 855-872. (R) Shifra Goldman and Tomás Ybarra-Frausto, "The Political and Social Contexts of Chicano Art" in Richard Griswold del Castillo, Teresa McKenna, and Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano, eds. Chicano Art : Resistance and Affirmation, 1965-1985. Los Angeles: Wight Art Gallery, University of California, 1991, pp. 83-95. Thursday, January 16: Border Identities, Mestiza Consciousness, Claiming a Language Reading: Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera. The New Mestiza. San Francisco: Spinsters/Aunt Lute, 1987. Tuesday, January 21: Interethnic Relations on the Border Film: Lone Star. dir. John Sayles, 1996. Readings: (R) Rosa Linda Fregoso, "Recycling Colonialist Fantasies On the Texas Borderlands" in Hamid Naficy, ed. Home, Exile, Homeland: Film, Media, and the Politics of Place. New York: Routledge, 1999. (R) José Limón, American Encounters: Greater Mexico, the United States, and the Erotics of Culture. Boston: Beacon Press, 1998, pp. 149-160. Thursday, January 23: Custodial Labor, Gender, and Intergenerational Relations I Readings: (R) Denise Chávez, "The Last of the Menu Girls" in The Last of the Menu Girls. Houston: Arte Público Press, 1986, pp. 13-38. (R) Mary Romero, "Life as a Maid's Daughter" in Challenging Fronteras: Structuring Latina and Latino Lives in the U.S. ed. Mary Romero, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, and Vilma Ortiz. New York: Routledge, 1997, pp. 195-207. Tuesday, January 28: Immigration and Anti-immigration Sentiment Film: In the Shadow of the Law dir. Frank Christopher, written by Paul Espinosa and Leo Chávez. Berkeley, CA: University of California Extension Media Center, 1990. A program broadcast February 3, 1988 by PBS. Reading: Rubén Martínez, Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on the Migrant Trail. New York: Metropolitan Books (Henry Holt), 2001. Thursday, January 30: Interethnic Labor Relations I -- Race, Class, Gender Reading: Neil Foley, The White Scourge. Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture. Berkeley: U of California Press, 1997, pp. 118-162. Recommended: David Montejano, Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986. Austin: U of Texas Press, 1987. Tuesday, February 4: Custodial Labor, Gender and Intergenerational Relations II Guest Writer: Helena María Viramontes Reading: Helena María Viramontes, Under the Feet of Jesus. New York: Dutton, 1995. Thursday, February 6: Labor II -- Race, Class, Gender Film: Salt of the Earth, dir. Michael Wilson, 1953. TAKE-HOME MIDTERM DUE FRIDAY FEBRUARY 7 Tuesday, February 11: Revisioning Spiritual Traditions through Art Guest Artist: Delilah Montoya Thursday, February 13: Central-American Immigration and the Sanctuary Movement Reading: Demetria Martínez, Mother Tongue. New York: Ballantine, 1994. Tuesday, February 18: Urban Realities I Reading: (R) Mike Davis, Excerpts from City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. New York: Vintage, 1990, pp. 223-263 Film: Twilight: Los Angeles dir. Marc Levin, by Anna Deavere Smith, PBS Home Video, 2001. Thursday, February 20: Urban Realities II– Muralism Guest artist: Juana Alicia Tuesday, February 25: Urban Realities III Reading: (R) Mike Davis, Magical Urbanism. London: Verso, 2000. Discussion of Davis reading and Twilight. Thursday, February 27: Music Guest Musicians: Chris González Clarke Reading: (R) George Lipsitz, Dangerous Crossroads: Popular Music, Postmodernism and the Poetics of Place. London: Verso, 1994, pp. 49-93. Tuesday, March 4: Poetry and Performance I Guest Poet: Cherríe Moraga Readings: (R) Poems from Cherríe Moraga, Loving in the War Years: Lo que nunca pasó por sus labios. Boston: South End Press, 1983. “The Voices of the Fallers” (pp. 1-6) “La Dulce Culpa” (pp. 14-15) “Later, She Met Joyce” (pp. 19-21) “Loving in the War Years” (pp. 29-30) “For the Color of My Mother” (pp. 60-61) Thursday, March 6: Poetry and Performance II Guest Poet: José Montoya Readings: Poems from José Montoya, InFormation: 20 Years of Joda. San Jose, CA: Chusma House, 1991, pp. 5, 8-14, 163-164, 174-175. PAPER OR CREATIVE PROJECT/ANALYSIS DUE FRIDAY, MARCH 7 Tuesday, March 11: Themes and Conclusions