LST 523 - Constructing Ethnicity: the U.S. Latino/Latina Experience

This course offers students a study of how individual, social, and national identities are developed, as well as how such identity constructions fuel contemporary notions of “Americanness.” The course, which will focus on the “triangle of Latinos” in the United States (Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Cuban Americans), examines what it means to be Latino, exploring such topics as family, religion, gender, politics, power, class, socioeconomics, acculturation and assimilation, and biculturalism, among others.

Credits: 3