Examines the role of popular music in relationships of power with subordination and the impact of music as a form of cultural expression.

Examination of twentieth-century literature, films, and other cultural artifacts that capture the multicultural reality of Brazilian society and challenge the image of Brazil as a unified, harmonious, racially-mixed nation. Subjects include contemporary textual and visual representations of the Brazilian diaspora in the United States and Europe.

Examine the myths and realities in the Afro-Luso-Brazilian worlds and the connections and contrasts between them.

Analyzes the relationship between literature and media technologies in contemporary Caribbean cultures.

Examine race and visuality in several countries of Latin America.

Explore the Spanish storytelling tradition, with a focus on famous Spanish language authors who have enjoyed a broad reception in the English-speaking world.

Explore the global, historical, thematic, and performative aspects of Brazilian culture using cultural texts, film, popular music, art, and photography.

Explore how Latin American and Latinx writers and artists have used the United States and globalization tropes, not just to come to terms with politics, popular culture, crime, technology, gender, and race, but also to talk about themselves.

Explore modern Brazilian urban culture and the processes and contexts that led to the modernization of Brazil.

Explore the cultural history of Jews in the United States, Latin America, and Canada through a representative sample of short literary texts, film clips, and musical recordings.

Explore prominent Latinx poets, writers, performers, and media artists connected to several diaspora communities from the Hispano-, Franco-, and Anglophone Caribbean in the United States.

Analyze how popular music and more sound-related media in Latin America have played central roles in the expression of global citizenship, national and transnational identities, social justice, race, gender, and sexuality.

Explore the multi-layered relations of Indigenous Peoples to the land in the context of late twentieth- and early-twenty-first century Latin America.

Explore Cuba's peoples, cultures, ethnicities, and the social and historical processes that go far beyond the common media stereotypes.

Explore the ways performance serves as an alternative space of expression and worldmaking, a site of activism and resistance, and a creative outlet for queer and trans people in specific socio-cultural contexts.