MA and PhD in Chicana and Chicano Studies in Cultural Production

Cultural Studies revolutionized the humanities and social sciences by placing culture at the center of inquiry. Like Chicana and Chicano Studies, the field has working-class origins and questions socially constructed truths through Queer, feminist, and other critical lenses. Cultural production refers to social products, practices, and aesthetics that emerge from economic and political exchanges. Specific forms can include literature, music, art, and religion, among others. Like written and spoken language, culture has a structure, syntax and hierarchy that can be read as a text. Chicana and Chicano cultural production challenges hegemonic systems of power and/or as a vehicle of decolonization, challenging U.S. and transnational social systems.