HUM 320A - Introduction to Latino/ Chicano Studies

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Antioch University-System Administration

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"Latino" people now constitute the fastest growing "minority" population in tUnited States, with historically important urban centers in the U.S. Southwest (including Los Angeles) and rapidly growing concentrations in the Midwest and U.S. South. But to what extent is it even possible to study this diversity of people under the rubric of a unitary "Latino" identity category This course is organizedaround a series of "keywords" that allow students to submerge themselves insome of the major issues, debates, and controversies involved in the study of Chicano and Latino communities. These keywords include: mestizaje, borders, migration, labor, feminism, public arts, commodified ethnicity, state violence, refugees, and radical politics. These keywords emphasize the intimately related roles of government, corporate capital, cultural producers, social movements, neighborhoods, and individuals in constructing diverse, fluid, complex, and sometimes contradictory "Latino" and "Hispanic" identities. The course alexplores how diverse people negotiate those constructed identities in their everyday lives in terms of employment, politics, education, family, neighborhood, and cultural expression. HUMANITIES DOMAIN

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.antioch.edu

Phone Number:

(937) 769-1372

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

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