Introduction to Mexican-American Popular Culture

Charles Tatum
Fall 2023
Tuesdays |  
10AM - 12PM
September 19, 26, October 3, 10, 17, and 24, 2023
Course Format: Hybrid
Location: Main Campus
Tuition: $195

We are immersed in popular culture during most of our waking hours. It is on the radio, television, our computers, and smartphones that we access the Internet and streets and highways in the form of advertisements and billboards. It is in newspapers, movie theaters, and shopping malls. It is at music concerts and sports events. It is found throughout our homes. The popular culture surrounding us can tell us much about ourselves. This is especially true when we examine popular culture analytically when we pause to study it in a socio-historical context. This course will examine Mexican Americans’ rich, popular cultural traditions and practices, the most significant component of the U.S. burgeoning Latinx population. Areas covered are music, cinema, newspapers, radio, television, popular literature, art, celebrations, and other popular traditions.

Registration Will Open Online:
Monday, August 7, 2023, at 8 AM (AZ Time)

Required Reading
  • Charles Tatum. Chicano Popular Culture: Que hable el pueblo. (Second Edition). Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2017. Also available as an etext.

Meet Your Instructor

Professor Emeritus

CHARLES TATUM is Emeritus Professor of Spanish at the University of Arizona. He served as dean of the College of Humanities from 1993 to 2008. He is the author of a monographic study Chicano Literature (1982), published in translation in Mexico in 1986. Among his other book-length publications are: Chicano Popular Culture, 2001, (2nd edition, 2017); Chicano and Chicana Literature: Otra voz del pueblo (2006); and Lowriders in Chicano Culture. He has edited or co-edited several anthologies of Mexican American literature. Tatum served as editor for a 3-volume Encyclopedia of Latino Culture (2013).

Location

POETRY CENTER
Dorothy Rubel Room
1508 E Helen
Tucson, AZ 85721
United States

Located on the SE corner of Helen Street and Vine Avenue, one block north of Speedway and three blocks west of Campbell Ave.

Street map image of Poetry Center

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