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In the 21st century, the role of Central America in U.S. Latinx political discourse as well as broader geopolitical frameworks has become increasingly central to conversations regarding immigration, imperialism, and incarceration. This course aims to traverse the temporal and social fabric of the Isthmus through historical, literary, and sociopolitical frameworks to examine key themes across the region within Panama, Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Costa Rica. By centering Central America, students will engage with the complexities of race, gender, class, governance, economic development, and social movements, while also considering its intersections with broader hemispheric and global contexts through the unique Central American subject-position. This includes specific attention to decolonial and abolitionist movements within the isthmus including that of the Maya, Garifuna, Nawat, Lenka, and Miskito. The course seeks to foster a nuanced understanding of the region's historical transformations and realities, emphasizing the ways Central America has shaped and been shaped by transnational dynamics. Student facilitators: Cecilia Xitlali Juarez and Kimberly Gonzalez-Zelaya.

This co-taught course explores the carceral logics of US citizenship and immigration policy through the interdisciplinary fields of Asian American and Latinx studies. We will consider how racialized immigrant communities have been criminalized, incarcerated, and detained under the guise of national security. We will also explore the ways that carceral infrastructure is a fundamental component of the capitalist economy of the United States. How have Asian American and Latinx communities seeking asylum and safety been shaped by racist immigration laws that lead to deportation? What systems are set in place that make prison-to-deportation or refugee-to-detainee possible? How have people resisted and maintained hope under constant threat from violent institutions and administrations? We will read scholarship and explore cultural production from Black, Indigenous, Asian American, and Latinx scholars, activists, and artists. Following the core tenets of ethnic studies, the course grounds itself in the understanding that resistance movements to white supremacy, racial capitalism & settler colonialism must fight for liberation and safety for all.

This course explores how Latinx/e and Chicana feminisms exist in relation to distinct genealogies of anticolonial feminism. Feminism, in this course, is both a theory and a praxis, and framing these modes of feminism as anticolonial seeks to bridge feminist theories that emerge from distinct communities and places, highlighting their liberatory emphases. Thinking transnationally, we will ground our thinking from the places and movements from across the Americas that these theories emerged from. Lastly, we will consider how feminisms from Black, Indigenous, Latinx, queer, trans, and global majority geographies are often grounded in liberatory struggles that are antipatriarchal, anticolonial and/or anticapitalist.

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.

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In a deeply polarized world, identity has often been at the center of conflict - whether wars among nations, imposition of colonial violence, repression of different marginalized groups, and human rights violations, among other forms of inequality and oppression. Cinema, as a popular form of entertainment, has represented identity in myriad ways. How have race, gender, class, and other intersecting markers of identity and marginalization been constructed on screen in Latin America and its diaspora? And how have these representations (frequently converging around the figures of outcasts, superheroes, and rebels) advocated for social justice, liberation, and belonging? These are the central questions that will guide the course's exploration of popular film within Latin American cultures as students develop a portable methodology to "read" and analyze moving images in different sociohistorical contexts. Sources may include the films Bacurau, El secreto de sus ojos, Blue Beetle, and Real Women Have Curves as well as performances of stars such as Jennifer Lopez and Gael García Bernal.

This course will explore the history of Mexican migrants and Mexican Americans from 1848 to the present.