SPAN 27504 - The U.S. Origins of Latinx Immigration

Course Credit: 1
Maximum Credit: 0

(CMLT, LAST)
The U.S. Origins of Latinx Immigration In this course we will examine the influence that the United States’ economic and political presence in Latin America has had on Latinx immigration. In addition to the course’s foundational text, Juan Gonzalez’s Harvest of Empire, we will read supplementary secondary texts, as well as a selection of novels (in both Spanish and English) by authors from a variety of Latinx immigrant groups who address the particularities of their national immigration experiences in their fiction. We will also touch on other themes central to Latinx Studies: questions of legality, labor, and language, constructions of race and gender, and Latina feminisms. [AH, C]