TAKE-HOME FINAL EXAM DUE THUR DEC 9 at 1pm pst AMST 135 - Take-Home Final Exam Fall 2021 One short question (on "home" listed below) and one long ( on novel) Due on Blackboard: Thur Dec 9 at 1pm Submit: via Blackboard Turnitin (for your section) Format of submission:

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TAKE-HOME FINAL EXAM DUE THUR DEC 9 at 1pm pst

AMST 135 - Take-Home Final Exam

Fall 2021

One short question (on "home" listed below) and one long ( on novel)

Due on Blackboard: Thur Dec 9 at 1pm

Submit: via Blackboard Turnitin (for your section)

Format of submission: .doc or .docx, Times New Roman, 12 pts font, 1 inch margins

Instructions for short question:

* Complete a minimum of 600 words on the short, comprehensive essay question listed below. This is not including your title page, heading, or parenthetical citations.

* Your answer should utilize at least three major sources from the course, a minimum of two texts and maximum of one film permitted.

* All course readings and documentaries since the midterm can potentially be used as sources, beginning with Menchú.

* Remember: Cite your sources! You need a Works Cited as well as in-text citations.

Short 600- word Question:

Discuss the concept of “home” as it has operated for Latinx and Latin American subjects in the texts we have read, and the varied ways one can observe a longing for or imagination of home, or conflict and fracture around the sense of home, in our course material. Be sure to consider a range of issues, such as migration and questions of belonging, diaspora, community and/or political identities, and state terror, as well as others. You do not have to include all of the topics in the previous sentence, this is just a list of potential topics.

Longer Essay Question: 1200 words

You will only be using one source, the novel, but you still need in-text citations with the page numbers for your quotes that you use as evidence. Grades will be based on the strength of your argument and the amount of effective textual evidence that you bring to bear in support of that argument.

Discuss the concept of authenticity with respect to racial and ethnic identities in the novel I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter. How do different characters understand their relationship to idealized narratives of race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality? Consider questions of family relationships, secrecy, shame, ethnic/racial pride, independence, individual self-actualization, socioeconomic class, language use, religion, the pursuit of education, etc.