The Extreme Contempoary of Latino Aesthetics

How can Latino cultural production in the academy reach the very constituencies it seeks to represent? "The Extreme Contemporary of Latino Aesthetics" is a pedagogical practice we've developed in class that allows us to counter Latino-bashing creatively by informing both cultural consumers and subaltern agents of issues that are affecting Latinos directly. In the link above, Nikki López "reads" Samuel P. Huntington's _Who Are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity_ and responds by conjuring his image with a passionate and personalized reinterpretation of the American Dream as a nightmare to scores of national excluded from the national patriotic embrace. Lázaro Lima

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