GEOG 106 - Latinx in the U.S.

Credits: 4

This course is designed to familiarize students with issues pertaining to: (a) Latinas(os) and Latin American immigrants living in the US; (b) The manner in which Western European (e.g., Spanish, Portuguese, British) and U.S. socio-economic and political expansion and interactions with Latin America and the Caribbean have helped frame the social, political, and economic conditions encountered by Latinas/os and Latin American peoples living in the U.S., Latin America, and the Caribbean; (c) The ways in which Latinas/os in the U.S. are affected by events taking place in Latin America and the Caribbean; (d) The manner in which race, ethnicity, nationality, color, class, gender, and sexual orientation have been historically perceived within Chicana(o) Latina(o) communities; (e) The ways in which Chicanas(os) Latinas(os) have been perceived by others; (f) The manner in which these identities and interactions produce various types of individual and group identifications and socio-political movements.