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Intro to Latinx Cultural Studies

ENGL 070.401
also offered as: COML 070, GSWS 060, LALS 060
instructor(s):
MW 3:30-5pm

This course offers a broad introduction to the study of U.S. Latinx literature, culture, and history. We will read poetry, short stories, manifestoes, testimonios, plays, novels, and essays, and examine poster art, murals, and performance art. In each instance, we will study this work within its historical context and with close attention to the ways it illuminates class formation, racialization, and ideologies of gender and sexuality as they shape Latino/a/xs’ experience in the U.S. Topics addressed in the course include labor, state violence, racism, revolutionary nationalism and internationalism, multiracial feminism, immigration, queer kinship and sexuality, U.S. imperialism, and the study of literature and visual art as they relate to social movements. While we will address historical events and intellectual currents from the 19th and early 20th centuries, the course will focus primarily on the period from the 1960s to the present. Students will have the opportunity to develop their own creative project as part of the course assignments. 

fulfills requirements
Sector 2: Difference and Diaspora of the Standard Major
Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the Standard Major