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Patricia A. de Freitas

Ethnic and Women’s Studies Department
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona  
Pomona, California 91768  
Office Phone (909) 869-2080        Department Fax (909) 869-6797

 
EDUCATION

PHD ANTHROPOLOGY, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
MASTER OF ARTS, ANTHROPOLOGY, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
MASTER OF EDUCATION, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles.
BACHELOR OF ARTS, ENGLISH, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles.
                          

COURSES TAUGHT AT CAL POLY, POMONA

EWS 140  -  Introduction to Ethnic Studies
EWS 201  -  African American Experience
EWS 450  -  Multiracial and Hybrid Identities
EWS 330  -  Ethnicity and Family Life
EWS 401  -  African American Contemporary Issues
EWS 410  -  Ethnicity and the Arts
EWS 431  -  Ethnic Thought and Values: Religions of the African Diaspora
LS 401     -  Liberal Studies Seminar: Knowledge, Power and Multiculturalism

TOPICAL AREAS OF INTEREST AND RESEARCH

Theories and production of identity (ethnic, gender, racial, class, national and transnational), discourses and practices of power, popular culture, performance and festival theory, religion and participatory research theory/methodology.

CURRENT RESEARCH INVOLVEMENT

Cultural performances, tourism, gender, and national identity construction in the post-colonial Caribbean.

Hybridity in comparative perspective.

RECENT PUBLICATION

Disrupting the Nation: Gender Transformations in the Trinidad Carnival. NWIG Volume 73 (1&2) 1999.

E-mail me at padefreitas@csupomona.edu

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