2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog/Handbook 
    
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2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog/Handbook [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

EGST 0317 - Latino/a U.S.A.


Explores Latino/a experiences in the United States.  This will be done through an interrogation of the construction of ‘race’ as a legal, institutional and social construction.  In order to center class discussion, we will be focusing on three topics: 1) the latinization of U.S. culture and society; 2) anti-latino/anti-hispanic/anti-immigration policies and resistance to such policies; 3) the racialization of Latinos.  Through the three themes for the course we will explore the following concepts that are important in our understanding of the contemporary realities of Latinos in this country: social construction of race; racial formation; pan-latinismo/latinidad/hispanidad; class-based and gendered racialization; institutional racism; geographies of exclusion; commodification of race and ethnicity; cultural appropriation and resistance; citizenship and race; immigration; and racial profiling.