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.
Announcements
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Class of 2016
Learn about the benefits of a major or minor in Latina/o Studies on our
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Atencion NU Undergrads!
Consider joining the LLSP Peer Mentorship Program TODAY!
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Felicidades!
To Anthony Iglesias, an LLS Major, for being
one of three recipients of this year's LANU Scholarship.
