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CHILATST 116: Latinx Social Movements

Latinx advocates, often through grassroots community organizing around social movement participation and electoral politics, have fought to ensure citizenship, civil rights, labor rights, environmental justice, immigrant rights, gender rights, sexuality rights, reproductive rights, and many more causes in the United States and across borders for decades. In this course, we will analyze the literature of Latinx social movements and various legal and political institutions impacting the U.S. Latinx community, such as electoral representation, labor, education, healthcare, housing, and recreation, as we examine the theories and methods that scholars incorporate to publish their conclusions. We will look at the Latinx community's historical challenges and their journeys to overcome economic disparities, as well as the role of race and racism, prejudice and discrimination, and anti-immigration policies directed at Latinx ethnic groups in the United States. This course will prepare students to conduct archival research on Latinx social movements in the Department of Special Collections and University Archives at Stanford.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5

CHILATST 157: Time Travel in Abya Yala: Decolonising Time (COMPLIT 157)

What if we saw time as malleable? In this course, we will examine how indigenous, latinx, and black artists manipulate experiences of time through music, visual art, and storytelling to reclaim their worlds. Understandings of time have been used to control the populations of Abya Yala (the Americas) since the beginning of the colonial period. But through different cultural understandings of time, experimental bookmaking, and other modes of creative expression, time can be experienced anew. We will pay attention to how different formats for storytelling and art alter our experience of the present. We will also identify how different ways of arranging events, visuals, and words reconfigure the relationships between the past, present, and future. The class will include fictional and theoretical works by Gloria Anzaldúa (Chicana), Manuel Tzoc (K'iche'), Patrick Chamoiseau (Martinique), Kency Cornejo (El Salvador/USA), and Dylan Robinson (Xwélmexw), amongst others.
Terms: Spr | Units: 3-5
Instructors: ; Martinez, N. (PI)

CHILATST 193B: Peer Counseling in the Chicano/Latino Community (EDUC 193B)

Topics: verbal and non-verbal attending and communication skills, open and closed questions, working with feelings, summarization, and integration. Salient counseling issues including Spanish-English code switching in communication, the role of ethnic identity in self-understanding, the relationship of culture to personal development, and Chicana/o student experience in University settings. Individual training, group exercises, role play, and videotape practice.
Terms: Spr | Units: 1
Instructors: ; Martinez, A. (PI)

CHILATST 271B: US Latinx History (HISTORY 271B, HISTORY 371B)

This course introduces scholarship on Latinx history, a field of critical importance to U.S. History, American studies, Latinx studies, ethnic studies, Latin American studies, and African American history. In order to cover a plethora of Latinx experiences, it will focus on Mexican, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Central American, and other Latinx communities from the 1840s into present, though it does not adhere to a strict chronological time frame. This course attempts to show the hemispheric nature of Latinx history. It also emphasizes a notion of Latinidad as a contingent historical process. Key themes which survey its complexity include the nature and legacies of imperialism; the politics of peoplehood and citizenship; trans-border connections; the importance of race, class, and gender in defining politics and culture; the emergence of ethnic nationalisms; and the development of urban enclaves. In particular, our class will focus on linking these dynamics to present-day issues and debates.
Terms: Spr | Units: 4-5 | UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
Instructors: ; Regalado, P. (PI)
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