Latino/x Politics in the U.S.

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"Latinx Politics: Dominicans in the U.S. and DR"The surge of immigration from Latin America and the Spanish Caribbean over the past fifty years has had profound consequences on electoral politics in the U.S. On the one hand, people of Latin American and the Spanish Caribbean, are increasingly becoming American citizens, growing their share of all eligible voters in the U.S., and electing people of their own to office in the U.S. On the other hand, Latino/a/x voters often hold double citizenship and are increasingly participating in electoral politics in their (or their family's) country of origin. The class will examine the electoral behavior of people of Dominican descent both in the U.S. and in the Dominican Republic. The course will examine the issues they care about and partisanship within both in the U.S. and in the sending society. How do they participate in both, in the U.S. and in their ancestral land politics? How do their interests match or not in these societies? What kind of candidates attract them? The class will seek to provide answer to these and other questions during the semester.