Advanced seminar in Chicanx and Latinx Studies with topic to be announced at the beginning of each semester.

Race has been conceptualized as an idea, identity, ideology, a schema, performance, skin color, biological distinction, demographic characteristic, status-based characteristic, social construction, hierarchical classification system, structure, political project, myth, and others. In this course we will probe definitions of race and racism, and consider the multitude and divergent ways that Latinxs conceptualize, experience, and challenge some of these notions. We will consider theories of race and racialization and compare them with contemporary case studies of racialization in practice. We will consider where and how different subsets of Latinxs fit in the U.S. racial landscape (e.g., as “race” or “ethnicity”? As White? As Indigenous? As Black? As racially Latinx? “Other?”), and explore overlapping identities, ideologies, and interests between Latinxs and other racialized groups. We will also consider how the shift in racialized immigration enforcement over recent decades shapes Latinx youth and families.

Repeat Rules