Welcome
Welcome to the Latina and Latino Studies website at Northwestern University. Students at Northwestern may take a variety of courses pertaining to the histories, political experiences, cultural, material and artistic expressions, and intellectual traditions of Latinas and Latinos living in the United States. In referring to US Latinas/os we mean the wide diversity of communities, cultures, and backgrounds from all parts of the United States and their complex relationships to diasporic homelands.
Our courses benefit from the wealth of Latina/o communities that reside and flourish in Chicago yet we also look at the experiences of Latina/o communities throughout the United States. Courses may discuss the realities of Puerto Rican and Mexican communities in Chicago, second generation Dominicans in New York, or generations of Mexican Americans in Houston.
Our curriculum engages in the productive tension between the common interests and differences affecting US Latinas/os. Students may expect to explore such commonalities/ differences in areas such as social movements, transnationalism, electoral politics, expressive cultures, race and comparative processes of racialization, immigration, queer theory, gender and sexuality.
LLS invite you to our upcoming events:
Wednesday January 25th, 2012
Harris Hall 108
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Chicanas of 18th Street
Narratives of A movement from Latino Chicago
Saturday February 25th, 2012
9:00am - 4:00pm
National Museum of Mexican Art
A Symposium
Unveiling the Past:
Immigration, Labor, Race, and Social Movements in Mexican/ Chicano Chicago
for more information about these events please email us at latinao-studies@northwestern.edu
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