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Research Strategies in Latino and Africana Studies - LSP 101 (also AS&RC 101). The digital revolution has made an enormous amount of information available to research scholars, but discovering resources and using them effectively can be challenging. This course will introduce students with research interests in Latino and Africana Studies to search strategies and methods for finding materials in various formats (print, digital, film, e.g.) using information databases such as the library catalog, print and electronic indexes, and the World Wide Web. Instructors will provide equal time for lecture and hands-on learning. Topics will include government documents, statistics, subject specific online databases, social sciences, the humanities, and managing citations electronically. Instructor: Tony Cosgrave. W 10:10 - 11:00. 1.00 credit. Coming to America: Immigration and Language Ideologies - LSP 143 (also ANTHR 143.01). In this course, we will explore the connections between immigration to the United States and emerging language ideologies. Who are the Minute Men and why are they patrolling the US-Mexico border? Why do people object to highway signs in English and Spanish? We will take a close look at current public discourse on immigration policy and debates on bilingual education, while considering a historical perspective on these controversies. We will view documentary films and read a range of authors, from the Founding Fathers to contemporary activists. Students will write short essays and a longer position paper in order to explore ideas, develop arguments, and communicate viewpoints effectively. Instructor: Elizabeth Phelps. MWF 1:25 - 2:15. 3.00 credits. Latinos in the United States - LSP 201 (also SOC and DSOC 265). Exploration and analysis of the Hispanic experience in the United States. An examination of sociohistorical background and economic, psychological, and political factors that converge to shape a Hispanic group identity in the United States. Perspectives are suggested and developed for understanding Hispanic migrations, the plight of Hispanic in urban and rural areas, and the unique problems faced by the diverse Hispanic groups. Groups studied include Mexican American, Dominicans, Cubans, and Puerto Ricans Instructor: Héctor Vélez. TR 2:55 - 4:10. 4.00 credits (variable). Latinos in the US: 1898 to the present - LSP 261 (also HIST 261 and AM ST 261). This course examines the history of various Latino populations in the United States since 1898. Some of the topics we will discuss include: immigration as the product of US hemispheric policies; the civil rights struggles of the 20th century and the evolution of a distinct "Latino" identity; the "new" migration from Latin America; the transnational influence of immigrant communities on their homelands. Instructor: Maria Cristina Garcia. TR 1:25 – 2:40. 4.00 credits. Comparative U.S. Racial and Ethnic Relations - LSP 375 (also DSOC and AMST 375). This course introduces and evaluates theories of race and ethnicity through a comparative-historical study of the social construction of race. Within the context of the formation of the United States, the course materials examine structures of racism as they influence Latino/a, African American, native American, and Asian American experiences. The purpose is to examine the socio-historical construction of 'race' through the attendant institutions of racism such as slavery, Jim Crow, land loss and violence, genocide, war, ideology (from Manifest Destiny to free labor), second-class citizenship, immigration restriction, colonialism, internment, and temporary worker programs. Differences and commonalities among the historically racialized groups will be the main source for comparative analysis. In addition, the course will include a survey of the sociological theories of race and ethnicity as well as critical interrogation of whiteness and ethnic identities. The course will map the origins of 'race' thinking in the era of scientific racism (biological determinism, Social Darwinism, and eugenics) and critically interrogate their link to sociological theories of race as culture, ethnicity, nation, and class. Contemporary theories of race and racism are highlighted in their relation to predominately the U.S. racialization of Latino/as and African Americans. The heterogeneity of Latino/a lived experiences in the United States will be compared/contrasted with Afro-Caribbean and African immigrant lived experiences within the category of 'being Black in America'. The course will focus on the historical legacy of institutional and interpersonal racism and its contemporary relevance in terms of political economic, residential, legal, educational, cultural, health and social psychological inequalities. Instructor: Ronald Mize. TR 1:25 – 2:40 pm. 3.00 credits. Immigrant Entrepreneurship, Markets, and the Restructured U.S. City: The Latino Case – LSP 395/659 (also CRP 395/659). This course will introduce students to the growing literature in Latino/a studies, economic sociology, geography, and transnationalism that address the variable pathways taken by Spanish language ethnic immigrant groups in establishing small- and medium-size business start-ups. The following issues will be discussed: 1) the distinct entrepreneurial experiences of Central American, Colombian, Dominican, and Mexican migrants within the context of economic restructuring in Chicago, Los Angeles Miami, and New York; 2) the structural linkages between the formal and informal economy and migrant labor markets; 3) impacts of ethnic enclaves, immigrant market niches, and multi-ethnic immigrant economies on local and city-wide economic growth; and 4) immigrant state sending diasporic policies and transnational local/global migrant entrepreneurial strategies and practices. Instructor: Arturo Ignacio Sánchez. W 2:30 – 4:25. 3.00 credits. Farmworkers - LSP 431/631 (also HIST 431/631, LAT A 431/633, CRP 395.72/679.72, ILRCB 402). An interdisciplinary, team-taught course on the world of migrant, rural labor. Weekly sessions taught by different faculty from across campus will combine short lectures and discussion of assigned readings. Emphasis is on migrant farmworkers, mostly from the Caribbean and mainland Latin America, in the United States with an increasing focus as the semester progresses on farm workers in central and upstate New York. Course requirements include analytical essays, a final paper, and participation in a service-learning project that will be arranged in conjunction with the instructors. Faculty Supervisor: Arturo Ignacio Sanchez. Team taught by various faculty across colleges. M 2:30 - 4:25. 4.00 credits. Ethnoracial Identity in Anthropology, Language and Law - LSP 624 (also ANTHR 624 and LAW 723). This course will examine the role that both law and language, as mutually constitutive mediating systems, occupy in constructing ethnoracial identity in the United States. We will approach the law from a critical anthropological perspective, as a signifying and significant sociocultural system rather than as an abstract collection of rules, norms, and procedures, to examine how legal processes and discourses contribute to processes and cultural production and reproduction that contributes to the creation and maintenance of differential power relations. Course material will draw on anthropological, linguistic, and critical race theory as well as ethnographic and legal material to guide and document our analyses. Instructor: Vilma Santiago-Irizarry. W 4:30 - 6:30 pm. 4.00 credits. | |