LLS 296

Fall 2007 All Classes

All Classes

Topics Latina/o Studies

Credit: 3 hours.

Course examines specific topics in Latina/Latino Studies not addressed in regularly offered courses. Examples include theories of ethnic identity, historical foundations, cultural expression, and relevant topics in public policy studies of Latina/Latino communities.

May be repeated in same or separate terms to a maximum of 6 hours.

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LLS 296 class schedule data for fall 2007
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
49777	Lecture-Discussion	A	2:00PM -3:20PM	MW	Gregory Hall	Estrada, J Dowling, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/07-12/07/07 Section Info: Topic: "Mapping Latino/a Inequalities." Explores contemporary structural forces that contribute to the concentration of Latino/as in segregated neighborhoods, and the detrimental effects of housing inequality on Latino/a communities. The focus will be on mapping the countours of institutional discrimination as they affect urban, semi-urban, and rural landscapes. Topics to be discussed include: housing access, environmental racism, educational disparities, crime, police brutality, community activism, and cultural production. We will further examine the role of space and place in the development and persistence of community identities.
45709	Lecture-Discussion	B	3:30PM -4:50PM	MW	Speech & Hearing Science Bldg	Cacho, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/07-12/07/07 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: Topic: "Citizenship Comparatively." Meets with AAS 299 sect LC and GWS 390 sect LC. This class will examine how citizenship has always been conferred and/or denied according to race and gender, focusing on Latinas/os and Asians. We will begin by looking at the ways in which legislation and court cases used race and gender to confer citizenship to Mexicans and Puerto Ricans, but denied citizenship to Asians. Through examining marriage, we will see how women, regardless of race, could be stripped of citizenship if they married "aliens ineligible to citizenship;" we will also analyze how marriage determined whether children born overseas were conferred US citizenship. The second half of the class will explore two interrelated themes: 1) how has the United States used the "noncitizen" category to further exclude people along racial, ethnic, religious, and sexual lines? and 2) how are Asians, Latinas/os, and other immigrants of color challenging and changing the meanings and definitions of US citizenship?
50462	Lecture-Discussion	C	2:30PM -4:50PM	M	Education Building	Inda, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/07-12/07/07 Section Info: Topic: "Body, Culture, and Power." This seminar offers a critical examination to the dynamics related to the embodiment of difference. Although the body is usually equated with nature, our focus will be on how truths about the body are produced in ways that justify and contest formations of power. In other words, we will argue that the body, rather than being in any simple way natural, is a construct of culture and therefore always implicated in realtions of dominance and subordination. The course will focus primarily on the body in western culture (with some emphasis on the Latino body) and will emphasize the optics of science, technology, and visual culture in the making and remaking of bodies. Specifically, it will interrogate how difference has been tracked, represented, and rendered visible through the body--how difference has been marked, contained, and dispersed--and how modern knowledge regimes have not merely observed and reported on bodies but have produced them. In effect, this course wil explore the construction, imaging, and experience of the body in light of modern regimes of power/knowledge.