C Introduction to Chicana-o-x Studies

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Term hours: 54 lecture. This course is an introduction to the field of Chicana/o/x Studies. It is designed to acquaint students with the most significant social, political, economic, and historical aspects of the transnational Chicana/o/x experience in the United States. The course covers the development of Chicana/o/x Studies as an interdisciplinary field of academic inquiry and topics such as race, ethnicity, and identity in the Southwest Borderlands; (im)migration, labor, and citizenship; indigeneity, "mestizaje," and "Chicanismo"; the socio-political, spiritual, and spatial significance of "Aztlán"; gender and sexuality in the Chicana/o/x community; creative and cultural production; and social movements by Chicanas/os/xs for self-determination and racial, economic, educational, and environmental justice. (UC/CSU, AA GE, CalGETC).