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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the history and meanings of the unique region of the U.S.-Mexico borderlands characterized by dramatic contrasts in culture, wealth, and power through an interrogation of the analytical frameworks and paradigms that interpret the borderlands as place, process, and metaphor. The border experience reflects a long history of conflict marked by settler colonialism, international competition, economic exploitation, and state-sponsored repression. It also marks a line of persistent resistance by indigenous and immigrant populations against strategies of manifest destiny, colonial domination, racial discrimination, and xenophobia. The primary focus will be on human rights, economic development, globalization, immigration, border militarization, and "post-911" U.S.-Mexico and U.S.-Canadian borders. Prerequisites: CSCR 10700 Introduction to Latino/a Studies and one additional course in the liberal arts. 3 credits. (F,Y)
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3.00 Credits
Using fiction, non-fiction, and film as texts, students will consider the forces that move people across borders and how migration affects questions of identity formation. The broader framework for this course derives from an engagement with race and colonialism and their meanings for the peoples of the Caribbean as experienced at home and in the diaspora. 3 credits. (F,IRR)
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3.00 Credits
Examines the historical, political, racial, economic, and social importance of hip-hop as a cultural movement. Particular attention is given to hip-hop's main tenets (writ'ing, b-boy'ing, dj'ing, and mc'ing); the political economy of racialized representations; and the legacy and agency of cultural expressions. Prerequisites: Sophomore standing. 3 credits. (F,Y)
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3.00 Credits
Explores how representations of racial and ethnic identities in U.S. film, television, and music influence the construction of political, racial, and gender identities nationally. Investigates how cultural representations of race, ethnicity, and gender are central to the development of U.S. mass culture and consumerism, nationalism, citizenship, and social movements. Particular attention is given to the role of black and Latino/a culture and music in developing strategies of resistance to oppression. Prerequisites: Sophomore standing. 3 credits. (Y)
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3.00 Credits
This course engages colonialism as a set of racial and material practices that shaped the identities of the colonizers and the colonized as much as it did the global political economy. Three themes in particular will guide our engagement: the racial overtones and undertones of the colonial encounter, especially as embodied in the ideas of discovery, barbarism, and progress; the psychological dynamics of the relationship between the colonizers and the colonized; and the politics of oppression and liberation. Prerequisites: Junior standing. 3 credits. (Y)
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3.00 Credits
Explores the realities and consequences of using race as a category of analysis and identity in the United States, as well as the foundations and assumptions of critical race theory. Includes the study of racism, history of racial formations, racial identities, social constructs, the black-white binary, whiteness, and critical race theory. Prerequisites: Junior standing. 3 credits. (F-S,Y)
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3.00 Credits
Mulattos. Octoroons. Quadroons. Half-breeds. Creoles. Mestizos. Hybrids. This language helps to reveal the American obsession with race mixing. Despite the language, most discussions ignore how miscegenation taps into racial fears, lustful desires, and the American psyche. By investigating the history, policies, laws, language and cultural mores around miscegenation, this course seeks to situate biracial/bicultural peoples within the process of American racialization. 3 credits. (S,Y)
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3.00 Credits
Selected topics in culture, race, and ethnicity will be considered with a narrow focus and considerable depth. This course may be repeated for credit for different selected topics. Prerequisites: Junior standing. 3 credits (IRR).
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3.00 Credits
Selected topics in culture, race, and ethnicity will be considered with a narrow focus and considerable depth. This course may be repeated for credit for different selected topics. Prerequisites: Junior standing. 3 credits (IRR).
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3.00 Credits
Explores how dominant representations of racialized sexuality, femininity, and masculinity in U.S. culture and politics influence systems of inequality. Particular attention is paid to the relationship between constructions of race and sexual politics, social policy shifts in welfare reform, the prison industrial complex, and intimate justice. Focus on antiracist feminist resistance and reproductive justice. Prerequisites: Junior standing. 3 credits. (Y)
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