Latina and Latino Studies
342-0-20: Latino Social Movements :

Instructor: Ana Aparicio
Office address: 515 Clark St. Room #201 Ev Campus
Phone: 847/491-5132
E-mail: a-aparicio@northwestern.edu
Office Hours:

Expected Enrollment: 20

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course offers a review of theory and research on Latino/a social movements and of their social and political impact in the U.S. Operating with the understanding that social movements are ways in which people organize collectively to effect social change, this course emphasizes key movements, moments, and figures of the 20th and early 21st centuries. Students will engage in a critical review of movements and the context within which they were birthed; such movements include the United Farm Workers struggles, Chicano rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s, Puerto Rican radicalism from the 1960s through the present, and contemporary manifestations of these struggles. This course will also call attention to emerging forms of inter-group or multi-ethnic/racial collaborative efforts of which Latinos/as are a part. While examining the ideologies, goals, and outcome of particular movements, we will also discuss the relationship between Latino/a social movements and the politics of cultural production.

READING: Readings are drawn from a variety of scholarly fields and popular genres and are complemented by guest lectures, films, and student participation in and research on contemporary Latino/a movements.

[Course Descriptions for Fall 2009] [Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences] [LATINO Latina and Latino Studies]