Stereotyping Native Latin Americans in the Film Industry

The Carney Latin American Solidarity Archive (CLASA) at the University of Detroit Mercy presents:

(Sorry for the incorrect information in class! I thought this was on the MSU campus!)

Dr. Rocio Quispe-Agnoli, MSU
“The Fear of the Other: Stereotyping Native Latin Americans in the Film Industry”

Tuesday, October 30 (Tomorrow morning!)
10:00 am
Jane & Walter O. Briggs Building, Room 10

ROCIO QUISPE-AGNOLI is Associate Professor of Colonial and Postcolonial Latin American Studies and Acting Director of the Center for Integrative Studies in the Arts and Humanities at Michigan State University (MSU), and is also affiliated with MSU’s American Indian Studies Program. She earned a Master’s degree and Ph.D., both in Hispanic Studies, at Brown University. She has published “La fe ind�gena en la escritura: asimilaci�n y Resistencia en los Andes coloniales” (Lima: Universidad de San Marcos Press, 2006). She recently edited “Beyond the Convent: Colonial Women’s Voices and Daily Challenges in Spanish America” (2006). She has co-directed an intensive summer institute for teachers which, among other topics, critically examines how Latin America/Latin American-ness is represented and how stereotypes may be reinforced in K-12 textbooks and curricular resources. Dr. Quispe-Agnoli will discuss the films “The Royal Hunt of the Sun,” “Cabeza de Vaca,” “Pocahontas” (2005), and “Apocalypto” (2006), with critical emphasis on how the films portray Native Latin Americans. She will also mention how a new documentary by Nova helps to dispel myths about the Andean Indigenous past. Historians and archaeologists are discovering new data which has helped them to rewrite Incan history.

Co-sponsored by Women’s and Gender Studies

For more information contact CLASA Director Dr. Gail Presbey at 313-993-1124 or visit the CLASA Website at http://liberalarts.udmercy.edu/clasa/.