PSCI 20900 - Latinx Politics

Course Credit: 1
LATINX POLITICS: This course explores key social, cultural, and political events that have shaped Latinxs in the United States. The class consults a variety of texts from political theory, hitory, and empirical social science to explore questions related to the following: the role of ethnic, racial, class, and gender differences in the development of Latinx identity and civil rights movements in both the U.S. and the hemisphere; strategies of Latinx political activism including labor organizing and immigrant rights movements; the dynamics of intra- and inter-group relations such as Black-Brown coalition-building; and Latinx public opinion and voting behavior. Alternate Years [HSS, SJ]