IAS 382 - Latin American DissemiNations: Migrations and Identities in the 20th and 21st Centuries

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Washington University in St Louis

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Latin America has been, historically, a region defined by its migrations. Throughout its history, Latin America has received waves of immigrants from around the world and has been the site both of internal migrations (country to city and country to country) and a considerable diaspora that has created new communities in the United States and Europe. Through the reading of fiction, film, art, and memoirs, this class seeks to study the cultural impact that different waves of migration has had both in the establishment of political and imaginary borders and in the constitution of new national, regional, and transnational identities. The class approaches case studies that encompass the effect of internal migrations in the region (such as the racial politics of Bolivian immigration to Argentina); the social redefinitions of Latin-American countries due to new waves of immigrants (such as the increasing Asian immigration to Panama); the articulation of a Latin America in exile (for instance, through the experiences of exiles from the Southern Cone dictatorships); and the construction of new "Latino" identities in the United States and Europe (such as the debates around Chicano identity constructed on the works of Gloria Anzaldúa and Richard Rodríguez), among others. Through these case studies, students not only get snapshots of different "Latin-American Crossings." The class also tackles the question of new, fluid notions of Latin-American culture and identity, as well as changing notions of race, ethnicity, class, and gender, as they are being redefined in the contemporary world. Prerequisite: IAS 165C (Survey of Latin-American Culture)

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3.00

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www.wustl.edu

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(314) 935-5000

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North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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