Latin American Studies 201li - Colloquium: Topics in Latin American and Latino/a Studies-Mapping Latine Inequalities: Race, Space and Urban Justice
Colq: T-Latine Inequalities
Spring
2024
02
4.00
Vicente Carrillo
W 1:20 PM - 2:35 PM; M 1:40 PM - 2:55 PM
Smith College
LAS-201li-02-202403
Neilson 102
vcarrillo@smith.edu
The course explores the relationship between race, space, gender and sexuality. Two questions guide our focus: How do communities come together to live dignified lives? What strategies of place making and world making do communities use to create home? The course turns to different cities throughout the U.S including Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and San Francisco to understand how historically aggrieved communities resist violent neighborhood changes. The course examines processes like gentrification and histories of dispossession. Students learn about housing justice activism, environmental racism, police brutality, gayborhoods, queer nightlife and pleasure politics. Cannot be taken S/U. Enrollment limited to 20. (E)