Course Info: CSI-0119

CourseCSI-0119 Introduction to Latina
Long TitleIntroduction to Latina/o/x Studies: Remapping Las Americas
Term2019F
Note(s) Satisfies Distribution
Textbook information
Meeting InfoR.W. Kern Center 202 on from
FacultyWilson Valentin-Escobar
Capacity23
Available23
Waitlist0
Distribution(s) Power, Community and Social Justice
Cumulative Skill(s)Multiple Cultural Perspectives
Additional InfoStudents are expected to spend 6-8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time.
DescriptionWhen 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.