Build up your search

Approach a topic from many contexts/ positions in order to collect sufficient evidence and give your argument and reasoning depth.

1. Use the subject databases to situate yourself within a critical discourse; that's where you can learn to be conversant with the critics writing in your topics.

2. Simply start with names, of authors in your readings; titles of articles and books in your readings as well.

3. Examine the initial search results to discover keywords for further searches.

Current:

1. LexisNexis Academic
2. Factiva
   

Historical:

1. New York Times Online Archive
   (1851 - 3 years before current date)
2. Boston Globe (1872-1979)

Essays and Popular Magazines
    Search across: Essay and General Literature (1900 -84), Art Retrospective (1929 - 84), Readers’ Guide to Periodical Literature (1890 – 1982).

OpinionArchives

Some of the oldest continuously published magazines in America, including American Spectator, Commentary, Commonweal, Dissent, Harpers Magazine, NACLA, The Nation, The National Review, The New Republic, New York Review, and The New Yorker.

Two more:

The Economist (1843-2003)

 

Time Magazine (1923-Present)

This course analyzes visual (and discursive) representations of the Latina/o and Latin American body (politic) in art and popular media in the U.S. In the midst (once again) of debates about immigration and national security, the popularity of the Latina/o body and of Latina/o culture in the U.S. imagination is on the upswing. Films, advertisements, music, and food, as well as various forms of commodification in popular culture attest to this phenomenon. We will undertake a critical examination of the embodiment of Latinidad as appealing yet as different, considering how difference (racial, ethnic, gender, sexual orientation), though seeming natural is linked to power relations and inequalities. We will also consider self-expression and radical articulations of difference as forms of political dissent. Historical examples will be considered but emphasis will be on contemporary culture, situating the increased visibility of Latina/os in cultural and political context. As frameworks of analysis we will combine approaches and readings in Latina/o Studies, Art and Visual Culture Studies, Media Studies and Gender and Women's Studies. (Fall 2007)