Latino Families in Cross-Cultural Perspective

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This course is an interdisciplinary introduction to the establishment, growth, and development of the diverse Latina/o communities in the United States. The course focus is the Latino/a family. Within that context, we will examine the contemporary histories-as well as the experiences of conquest, colonization, radicalization and integration in US society. Students will explore the intersections of race, class, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality, through such topics as identity formation, and generational and socio-cultural change, bilingual education and language rights, economic and political participation, transnational immigration, law and civil rights, and the emergence/evolution of Latina/o social justice movements and their impact on the family.