Mount Vernon Campus - Ethnic Studies 120 - Winter Quarter

Ethnic Studies 120 (5): Survey of the Chicana/o & Latina/o People (Winter 2009)

This is an evening class that will meet on Tues/Thurs from 7pm to 9:20pm. Most importantly, this course fulfills the Associate in Arts University College Transfer Degree: Culture Distribution List.

Course description: This course is a general introduction to the historiography, social, and economic status of transnational Chicanas/os and Latinas/os. We will revisit the conquest of Mesoamerica; the annexation of the Southwest by the U.S.; and the socially constructed politics of the early Chican@ Civil-Rights Movement. We will critically examine the unresolved conflicts of class, gender, sexual orientation, immigration, and transnationalism that still impact early and post Chican@- Latin@- Movement Generations. In the final analysis, we will attempt to answer: Can Chicanismo—the ideology of being Chicana/o—be positioned as a critical transnational activism rhetoric such as Zapatismo? Zapatismo as theorized and practiced by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN), an Indigenous Anti-Neoliberal Globalization Movement Rhetoric, argues for: “a world where many worlds fit, and where those who govern do so by obeying.” In other words, a radical transformation of society and ourselves. Our readings and discussions will include the topics of Conquest, Displacement, Resistance, Gender Inequality, Heteronormativity, and Transnationalism.

Q's: francisco.tamayo@skagit.edu