AFST 210 - Latin@s in the U.S.

Credits: 4

This course familiarizes students with issues pertaining to: Latinos (including Chicanos) and Latin American immigrants in the U.S.; the impact of Western European and U.S. expansion on Latinos and Latin American peoples; the ways in which Latinos in the U.S. are affected by events in Latin America and the Caribbean; the manner in which race, ethnicity, nationality, color, class, gender, and sexual orientation have been perceived within Latino communities; others’ perceptions of Latinos; and various types of individual and group identifications and socio-political movements.