Focus on issues in Brazilian society and Portuguese society and culture.

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.