The Corrido: Reconstructing Histories and Latinex Narratives

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Latinex Voices engages with anti-oppressive pedagogies to teach Mexican popular poetry, corrido. By reading poetry and scholarly articles the students will think critically about social issues all over the world, and will reflect on those topics by writing poetry. This course will introduce students to the critical frameworks of Latin American Studies including Queer Latinex Feminism, and Decolonial Pedagogies with a selection of readings in English and Spanish to engage together with the book Pedagogy of the Oppressed written by Paulo Freire in 1968. We will also connect Freire’s social justice scholarship with The Student Guide to Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Darder, 2018) a companion book to further contextualize Freire’s work.