Graduate Readings in Latino Studies (491-0-1)

Instructors

Geraldo L Cadava
847/491-3152
Harris Hall - Room 210

Meeting Info

Locy Hall 318: Mon 2:00PM - 4:50PM

Overview of class

This graduate seminar introduces students to the field of Latinx history and how it has evolved over time. Students will read primarily new scholarship, but will also read some classic works in order to understand the questions scholars wrestled with at particular moments.

Learning Objectives

1) To understand how the study of Latinx history has changed over time; 2) To become familiar with the questions scholars today are asking and answering in their scholarship, compared with the questions asked and answered by earlier generations of scholars; and 3) To understand Latinx history's place within the interdisciplinary field of Latinx Studies.

Class Materials (Required)

Books including:

Lloyd Barba, Sowing the Sacred
Eduardo Contreras, Latinos and the Liberal City
Johanna Fernández, The Young Lords
Sarah McNamara, Ybor City
Monica Muñoz Martínez, The Injustice Never Leaves You