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 and material 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, race and comparative processes of racialization, immigration, queer theory, gender and sexuality.
Mónica Russel y Rodríguez
Interim Director Latina/o Studies
Northwestern University
