WMST379D

As of 2012, Hispanics and Latinos make up about 17% of the total U.S. population. Significant within group differences exist by national origin, place of birth, socioeconomic status in country of origin, racial phenotype, and educational attainment of family of origin. In this course, students will become informed on the historicity and heterogeneity within and among Latino subgroups by gender, race, nativity and class; become familiar with the contemporary theoretical discourse on understanding the social location of Latino/Hispanic subgroups including diasporic immigration patterns; and, critically analyze and understand the interplay of ethnicity, race, gender and class in formation and civic and political participation.