LLS 396

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Adv Topics Latina/o Studies

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Credit: 2 OR 3 hours.

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 the same or separate terms to a maximum of 6 hours.

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LLS 396 class schedule data for fall 2022
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	54035	Lecture-Discussion	EV	11:00AM -12:20PM	TR	Davenport Hall	Velez, E	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/22-12/07/22 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Latinx Feminisms Section Info: Topic: "Latinx Feminisms" Meets with GWS 395. This course examines historical and contemporary Latinx feminist thinking in its complex and uneven genealogies. As a category, “Latinx” spans myriad geographical, cultural, and political contexts. In order to maintain these complexities, tensions, and affinities, we will consider texts from a range differently situated thinkers to think more deeply with and about Latinx feminisms. We begin in Unit 1 by considering the multiplicity of Latinx identities and their relationship to Latinidad. We consider the “X” in Latinx as a site of woundedness, the racial dimensions of Latinx identity, and the complicated relationship between Latinidad and other intersecting identities, paying special attention to Black, Indigenous, and LGBTQ identity and experience. In Unit 2, we turn our thinking to Latinx bodies in motion through geopolitical forces such as borders and consider how Latinx feminists’ attention to multiplicity and in-betweenness that complicates easy binaries between North/South. Unit 3 examines Latinx feminist critiques of Empire and the legacies of colonization which include the imposition of binary gender systems. In particular, we will consider how Latinx feminists have developed a unique tradition of decolonial feminism in their calls for decolonial imaginaries and decolonizing coalitions. The course ends as we put our own decolonial imaginaries to work through our final podcast project that responds to the idea that otro mundo es posible/another world is possible.
	68155	Lecture-Discussion	JD	11:00AM -12:20PM	TR	1207 W Oregon	de la Garza, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/22-12/07/22 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Queer Latinx Literature Section Info: Topic: "Queer Latinx Literature." Meets with GWS 395 & ENGL 325. Students in this course will read, analyze, and discuss works by queer Latinx writers with particular attention to the relationship between migration, sexuality, and citizenship. Though Latinx fiction leans into legal mappings of Latinx communities, queer Latinx writers make the implications of unique legal encounters for Latinx communities evident through narrative experimentations that highlight compounded legal and cultural exclusions. Analyzing representations of legal, sexual, and cultural encounters that impact queer Latinx access to the citizenry, students will investigate the cultural and literary histories that inform the ways queer Latinxs navigate the legal underpinnings of queer, Latinx, and queer Latinx life in the 21st century U.S.