LTNX 370 - Latinx Memory & Migration

4 credit(s)
Explores the cultural production of memory in the context of migration. Focusing on experiences of Trans-American migration-emerging from the U.S. borderlands- we will study the way Latinxs record personal and collective histories across narrative forms. Our archive of study includes oral histories, written texts, photographs, public records, among other mediums. Our study in the field of ‘memory’ will serve to examine the way histories circulate in the public imaginary. How do memories get recorded? How do they circulate? What guarantees a space in the so-called archive? Why have Latinx histories often escaped the public record? Given the vast and diverse histories of Latinx in the United States, this course will offer an overview of the making of the U.S. (as a nation-state and later global empire) -as a way to understand the ethno-racial lines that have come to shape this country.
Prerequisite(s): LTNX 260 (formerly HUM 260) or Sophomore Standing or above (30 or more completed credits).