hispanyc's original concept was a Spanish-speaking YouTube channel that explored how constructs of race, class, gender, and sexuality affect our identity, resources, and communities. The main themes explored for this purpose were popular culture, modern arts, and cultural theories.
Episode 1: Youtube Essays of Latin American Art in New York:
The surge of abstract, Latin American modern artists' exhibitions in New York City Museums has been predominantly abstract and geometric. A possible explanation for the overt preference of this trend is offered by art critic and historian Marta Traba. In her theory, Traba describes two areas of art production in Latin America, insular countries(figurative) and international ones (abstract). Traba argues that countries leaning towards abstraction had a deeper dialogue with Western art trends, which also experienced more lavish projects of modernization in Latin America. In that process, figurative artists with more vernacular artistic and cultural values, coming from less wealthy countries were bypassed and considered retrograde for failing to meet modern values. I proposed that the invisibility of these artists continues at an international level for similar reasons.
Episode 2: Bourdieu's Cultural and Social Capital: An essential theory for immigrants of third-world countries in New York City.
Explores Bourdieu's ideas of Cultural and Social Capital as a way to understand personal lived experiences of under appreciation at workplaces in New York City and as an immigrant.
Episode 3: Racist discourses and appropriations in
Latin American Pop Culture.
Latin American Pop Culture.
The channel took off after providing resources Latino immigrants for housing, job readiness, health services, real-estate explanations, among other social services.
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These data points reflect the first phase of the channel;
Decrease reflects concept shift announcements and later the removal of videos
