Latinx and African Cultural Landscapes
in the
American Global City
Dr. Angel Nieves
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This hybrid lecture class will focus on the strategic roles
that emerging Latinx and African communities play in various urban centers
across the U.S. – including cities such as Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and
New Orleans – by exploring how both groups establish and maintain distinctive
social and cultural identities in the American metropolis. Beginning our
investigation in the 19th century, we will develop a broad historical approach
to evolving community realities, and will focus on the continuing demographic
changes of the present generation. We will study this present-day process using
current interdisciplinary theories of globalization, diaspora, and
nation-building. The varying forms of cultural expression, production, and
representation of both groups will be explored through film, literature, art,
architecture, and the media. In small groups students will develop a cultural landscape report for a
building, place, neighborhood, region, or city with a growing Latinx and/or
African immigrant community. For their final project, students will develop a
Google Site for public display and dissemination.
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