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Borderlands, Diasporas, & Transnational Identities

Course Overview

Date / Time Location Credits Minimium Tuition*
1/27/25 - 5/14/25
TuTh 2p.m. – 3:15p.m.		 McCormack M01-0418 3 $1984 (guest students)
Date
1/27/25 - 5/14/25
Time
TuTh 2p.m. – 3:15p.m.
Location
McCormack M01-0418
Credits
3
Min. Tuition*
$1984 (guest students)

Description

This course focuses on the issues relating to migration, imperialism, state formation, human rights, and the performance of citizenship and national belonging among Latina/o/xs.  The courses bring together historical essays, news media, music, poetry, and other forms of expressive culture in an exploration of the specific geographic, political, and economic conditions that produce geopolitical borders; the formation of diasporic and transnational identities in relation to ancestral homelands; the contradictions posed by using geography to define Latina/o/xs; and the racial, gendered, and sexual hierarchies within Latinidad. The course pays particular attention to these questions in relation to the border between the US and Mexico; the Dominican Republic and Haiti; Mexico and Central America; and Puerto Rico and the United States.

Prerequisites

a minimum of 30 credits or Permission of Instructor

This course is closed for registration.

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Course Details

Session

Regular Academic Session

Class Dates

1/27/2025 - 5/14/2025

Location

McCormack M01-0418

Enrolled / Capacity

3 / 25

Status

Closed

Instructor

To be Announced

Tuition*

$1984 (guest students)

* The tuition estimate is based on minimum, single-course cost to a new student who is a Massachusetts resident and not enrolled in a multi-course program. State residency, online/in person modality, and matriculation to a degree program may affect cost.

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