Cross-listed with AMST328D. Credit only granted for USLT328D or AMST328D.

This class explores Latinx communities' histories and experiences with displacement, detention, and deportation through an interdisciplinary approach centers people's lived experiences.

A variable topics seminar that exposed students to interdisciplinary critical readings, writings, and research in U.S. Latina/o Studies. Interdisciplinary research methodologies are broadly addressed. Students will gain skills and practice in reading critical analytic texts and will develop writing skills.

Cross-listed with AMST498G. Credit only granted for USLT498A or AMST498G.

Combining media theory and film history, this course considers the film industry s representation of Latines from the silent era to the present day. To begin, we examine mainstream images created by white Hollywood filmmakers during the twentieth century; the latter part of the course turns attention to self-representations in more recent cinema created by Latine cultural producers.

Cross-listed with AMST498P. Credit only granted for USLT498C or AMST498P.

Explores a century of representations of race and racism in US cinema, both via Hollywood s studio system and through more marginali (independent) productions. We examine film and identity through multiple methodological lenses, including film history, formalist critique, audiereception analysis, and film and media theory. Our focus will be the politics and poetics of racial exclusion and inclusion, power and resistance, and integration and separatism in shaping and defining the national imagined community.