Course Info: CSI-0119
Course | CSI-0119 Introduction to Latina |
Long Title | Introduction to Latina/o/x Studies: Remapping Las Americas |
Term | 2019F |
Note(s) |
Satisfies Distribution Textbook information |
Meeting Info | R.W. Kern Center 202 on from |
Faculty | Wilson Valentin-Escobar |
Capacity | 23 |
Available | 23 |
Waitlist | 0 |
Distribution(s) |
Power, Community and Social Justice |
Cumulative Skill(s) | Multiple Cultural Perspectives |
Additional Info | Students are expected to spend 6-8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time. |
Description | When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists..." Donald Trump, June 16, 2015. Utilizing an interdisciplinary, Ethnic Studies, and transnational framework, this course is designed as an introductory foray to studying Latina/o/x communities in the United States, focusing on their historical, social, political, cultural and economic formations and practices. Some issues and topics to be discussed include: the history of Latina/o/x Studies, inter-Latin@ and transnational formations, Latina/o/x identities and their attendant discourses; social and cultural movements; labor policies and (im)migrant labor migration; past and current xenophobic policies and practices against Latina/o/x communities; the illegal and inhumane detention of (im)migrants, and the forms of resistance employed by Latinas/os/xs against historical and current-day imperial projects and ethnically/racially intolerant policies. |