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Campus | Bryn Mawr |
Semester | Spring 2024 |
Registration ID | ENGLB339001 |
Course Title | Latina/o Cultural Migration |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Latin American, Iberian, and Latinx Studies |
Instructor | Harford Vargas,Jennifer |
Times and Days | MW 01:10pm-02:30pm
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Room Location | EHI |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2074 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. Enrollment Cap: 15; f the course exceeds the enrollment cap the following criteria will be used for the lottery: Majors and minors by class (seniors then juniors) |
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