Fall 2018  |  CHIC 3352 Section 001: Transnational Chicana/o Theory: Global Views/Borderland Spaces (20087)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
09/04/2018 - 12/12/2018
Mon, Wed 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Wulling Hall 240
Enrollment Status:
Open (10 of 30 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Demographic realities, political/economic shifts, cultural exchanges that characterize U.S.-Mexico borderland spaces in global economy. Historically contextualized, transnational approach to cultures, politics, and economics of U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. Dnamics of borderland spaces.
Class Description:
?The U.S.-Mexican border es una herida abierta (is an open wound) where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country?a border culture.? --Gloria Anzaldua, Borderlands/La Frontera. The words of scholar activist Gloria Anzaldua underscore the long history of cultural clashes, political inequalities, economic competition, and social struggle in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. Blurring the line between American, Chicano and Latin American Studies, we will take Anzaldua's observations as a starting point to explore the conflict-ridden and violent historical development of the U.S.-Mexico border, the related political and economic dynamics of transnationalism and the cultural and social expressions exerted by people living in the borderlands. By exploring issues such as conquest, racial violence, immigration, border policing, and the exchange of everything from culture to contraband, students examine how people and communities sought to create notions of belonging in their rapidly changing position between the first and third world. Such solutions included hybrid cultural expressions, cross-border community formation, ethno-racial politics, and transnational identities. By employing an interdisciplinary approach including history, folklore, literary studies, ethnography, and policy analysis we will seek to identify the many ways borders and borderlands have been conceived to engage significant debates about the U.S.-Mexico border and the transnational world in which we live.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/20087/1189
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
14 November 2014

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