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Campus | Bryn Mawr |
Semester | Spring 2017 |
Registration ID | ENGLB236001 |
Course Title | Latina/o Cultural Migrations |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Latin American, Iberian and Latina/o Studies |
Instructor | Harford Vargas,Jennifer |
Times and Days | W 01:10pm-04:00pm
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Room Location | EHI |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 1156 Gloria AnzaldĂșa has famously described the U.S.-Mexico border as an open wound and the border culture that arises from this fraught site as a third country. This course will explore how Chicana/os and Latina/os creatively represent different kinds of migrations across geo-political borders and between cultural traditions to forge transnational identities and communities. We will use cultural production as a lens for understanding how citizenship status, class, gender, race, and language shape the experiences of Latin American migrants and their Latina/o children. We will also analyze alternative metaphors and discourses of resistance that challenge anti-immigrant rhetoric and reimagine the place of undocumented migrants and Latina/os in contemporary U.S. society. Over the course of the semester, we will probe the role that literature, art, film, and music can play in the struggle for migrants rights and minority civil rights, querying how the imagination and aesthetics can contribute to social justice. We will examine a number of different genres, as well as read and apply key theoretical texts on the borderlands and undocumented migration. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC), Critical Interpretation (CI);, ; Part of a 360: Migrations and Borderlands. Enrollment limited to 360 participants only. 360 Description: This 360 will use the lenses of cultural studies and sociology to critically and comparatively examine migration in different national contexts and historical moments. We will focus in particular on the complex factors shaping migrations between Latin America and the United States, Latin American and Spain, and Asia and Latin America, as well as how migration is represented in literature and culture. We will probe questions of imperialism, economic and political policies, xenophobic discourse, transnational belonging, cultural citizenship, and how individuals and families are transformed through the process of migration. Our trip to the US-Mexican border will allow students to critically examine first-hand the interplay between U.S. migration policy, globalization, social justice movements, and individual agency. |
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