LATS 470
Latinx Migrations: Stories and Histories Spring 2023
Division II Writing Skills
Cross-listed HIST 470
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Latinx migration histories are often told with sweeping data and within broad historical contexts. While these are important, the voices of the people leaving their home countries and coming to the United States can be lost or buried. During the 1970s, the emerging subfield of social history asserted the need to craft histories that took into consideration the everyday lives of everyday people. Oral history emerged a key tool in capturing the personal stories too often missed in historical archives. At the same time, Puerto Rican Studies, Chicano Studies, and later, Latinx Studies emerged to tell the histories of groups too often omitted from or misrepresented in the scholarship. These fields relied on traditions of testimonios or storytelling. This course focuses on Latinx oral histories, autobiographies, and other first person narratives to explore how people are impacted by and experience those broad historical contexts, as well as how the decisions they make and the actions they take shape those broad historical contexts. This course examines first person narratives in the context of specific Latinx groups in particular historical, geographical, and social contexts, while interrogating the methodological and interpretive challenges of working with oral histories and other first-person primary sources.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 19
Expected: 15
Class#: 3426
Grading: no pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: class participation and presentations; short writing assignments; proposal, bibliography, and drafts of final paper; final paper of 15 to 20 pages
Prerequisites: none
Enrollment Preferences: History majors and Latina/o Studies concentrators, seniors
Distributions: Division II Writing Skills
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
HIST 470 Division II LATS 470 Division II
WS Notes: This research seminar supports students as they define an appropriate topic, identify and use primary and secondary sources, and complete a 15-20 page final paper. Several short writing assignments focus on interpretations of primary sources and on honing in on scholars' key arguments in secondary sources. The final paper is written in stages, including a proposal with a bibliography, a draft for workshopping with other students, and a final presentation along a revised draft.
Attributes: HIST Group F Electives - U.S. + Canada
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