LATS 428
Performing Latina/o Cultural Citizenship Fall 2020
Division II Writing Skills
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Being conscious of citizenship is a commonplace preoccupation for most Latinas/os in the United States of America. How can Latinas/os belong to the national imagined community when many are reminded daily that they are second-class citizens, and even presumed to be criminals, rapists, and drug dealers? How do Latinas understand and negotiate an imperialist and colonial past of violence and deterritorialization? How do Latinas/os feel when they historicize citizenship and discover hidden archival scripts documenting how their ancestors’ land was stolen, or how they were forced to migrate in response to military interventions or invasions that caused economic devastation and death? In this course students will critically think about past and present everyday performances and transactions of citizenship, its many embodiments, and structures of feeling. Most important, students will embark on a theoretical journey of research and readings to make sense of how citizenship is experienced and felt and how it is historically situated en el aquĆ­ y ahora. Students will explore, within an interdisciplinary perspective and a critical cultural studies framework, the many forms of citizenship, including sexual citizenship, intimate citizenship, economic citizenship, diasporic citizenship, transnational citizenship, academic citizenship and others.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 12
Expected: 10
Class#: 2433
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: none
Prerequisites: none
Enrollment Preferences: LATS Concentrators
Unit Notes: LATS 400 Level seminar
Distributions: Division II Writing Skills
WS Notes: 5 papers at 2 pgs each (each receiving feedback); assignments will be responses to specific articles/topics covered in class; attention will be paid to organization of ideas, argument, and critical thinking. Students will also submit a midterm paper (5pgs) and a final paper (8pgs) on a topic of their choice, in consultation with the professor.
Attributes: LATS 400-level Seminars

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