Much like the United States, Argentina is the sum of many cultures. This seminar will explore how migration has shaped modern Argentino identity by focusing on Italian, British, and Jewish immigrants. Building on the readings, fieldwork, discussion, and lectures in the pre-departure course, the on-site component will explore the experiences and interactions of members of these three groups in the Buenos Aires area. Through lectures, conversations, field trips, work with cultural organizations, and individual research, students will trace the story of assimilation and alienation, and the role of the institutions that seek to build and maintain ethnic and national identity. We will ask how these immigrant groups have shaped contemporary Argentina; how they, in turn, have developed an Argentino component to their identities; and how events of the last 25 years have changed the way members of these groups relate to Argentina and to their own ethnicity.
Teens,
tourism, tango, BA 2006
Sandra Jamieson
Sandra Jamieson
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images of Argentina |
Italian
influences |
British
influences |
Jewish
influenes |