Intro to Chicana/o Latina/o Studies
Jorge Enrique Moraga, Ph.D. student in CCGRS
Graduate Teaching Assistant
509.335.4177
Wilson-Short 115
[email protected]
Spring 2014
Tu/Th 10:35-11:50am
Todd 307
office hours: tu/th 9:30-10:30a & by appt.
course description
Historically, Chicanas/Chicanos and Latinas/Latinos have played an integral part in the shaping of U.S. culture and society. However, due to the investments, legacies and practices of the Western Christendom, children raised under the U.S. American public education system are rarely taught the lived experiences, histories, and contributions of Chicana/o Latina/o communities. This class is designed to remedy these epistemological slippages.
CES 151 is an introductory journey to the study of how Chicanas/os Latinas/os have assimilated, confronted, negotiated and continue to resist phenomenon in relation to: white colonialism, race, immigration, gender, sexuality, hetero-patriarchy, labor, education, government, the law, media and trans-national state-sanctioned violence. As a result of our de-centering euro-centric notions of knowledge and truth, and instead peering into the borderlands where 'theory exists in the flesh' (Cherríe Moraga), the foci of this class lies in making sense to the process of empowerment through identity and collective agency.
This class will provide practical tools that help evidence the significance of Latin American community in general, and the Chicana/o community in specific. Drawing from a myriad of research, literature and collective experiences, in both theory and practice, this course is designed as a vehicle towards reclaiming lost histories, forgotten legacies; together, we will roughly trace over 500 years of Chicana/o Latina/o struggles for community, social justice and economic liberation.
Historically, Chicanas/Chicanos and Latinas/Latinos have played an integral part in the shaping of U.S. culture and society. However, due to the investments, legacies and practices of the Western Christendom, children raised under the U.S. American public education system are rarely taught the lived experiences, histories, and contributions of Chicana/o Latina/o communities. This class is designed to remedy these epistemological slippages.
CES 151 is an introductory journey to the study of how Chicanas/os Latinas/os have assimilated, confronted, negotiated and continue to resist phenomenon in relation to: white colonialism, race, immigration, gender, sexuality, hetero-patriarchy, labor, education, government, the law, media and trans-national state-sanctioned violence. As a result of our de-centering euro-centric notions of knowledge and truth, and instead peering into the borderlands where 'theory exists in the flesh' (Cherríe Moraga), the foci of this class lies in making sense to the process of empowerment through identity and collective agency.
This class will provide practical tools that help evidence the significance of Latin American community in general, and the Chicana/o community in specific. Drawing from a myriad of research, literature and collective experiences, in both theory and practice, this course is designed as a vehicle towards reclaiming lost histories, forgotten legacies; together, we will roughly trace over 500 years of Chicana/o Latina/o struggles for community, social justice and economic liberation.