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54982
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Lecture-Discussion
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EG
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3:30PM
-5:50PM
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R
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103 1207 W Oregon
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Guzman, E
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- Availability:
- Open
- Part of Term:
- 1
- Date Range:
- 08/24/26-12/09/26
- Credit:
- 3 hours
- Section Title:
- Visualizing Borderlands
- Section Info:
- "Visualizing Borderlands": Over the past two decades, more than seventy border walls have been constructed worldwide in the name of sovereignty and security. These physical barriers are accompanied by legal regimes that restrict mobility, intensify surveillance, and reinforce “us versus them” nationalisms. This course examines how borders are built, enforced, inhabited, and contested, with particular attention to Latin American and U.S. Latino contexts. We will analyze how borders are represented, visualized, maintained, and contested in media, art, and literature. We will investigate not only geopolitical borders, but also linguistic, racial, gendered, and embodied boundaries that shape Latinidad and diaspora. Drawing from scholarship, literature, film, photography, and sound, students will explore how artists, activists, and communities represent, navigate, and reimagine borderlands as sites of struggle, creativity, and belonging.
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64012
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Lecture-Discussion
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EVE
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4:00PM
-6:20PM
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M
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312 Davenport Hall
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Velasquez Estrada, E
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- Availability:
- Open
- Part of Term:
- 1
- Date Range:
- 08/24/26-12/09/26
- Credit:
- 3 hours
- Section Title:
- Empire, Migration, and Justice
- Section Info:
- "Central America: Empire, Migration, and Intersectional Justice": This course examines Central America through the life experiences of its peoples as a region historically constituted through settler colonialism, racial capitalism, and U.S. imperial power, and reconfigured through neoliberal governance. The territories now known as Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panamá are analyzed as interconnected sites produced through land dispossession, extractivism, authoritarianism, genocide, civil war, and forced migration. Using intersectionality as a lens for analyzing structural power, the course investigates how race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and class are organized within these formations, producing uneven life chances and political subjectivities. Through testimonios, cultural production, political organizing, and armed struggle, we examine how Indigenous, Black, campesino, working-class, and queer communities have resisted dispossession and articulated projects of intersectional justice and collective self-determination. Situating these histories within U.S. power, the course invites students to think critically about how empire shapes migration, labor exploitation, and ongoing fights for justice across borders.
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