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2022-2023 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
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LACS 005 - (CC, IS) Latinx Communities of New York

Semester Hours: 3
The City of New York is home to some of the largest and most vibrant Latinx and Hispanic communities in the United States: over 3 million people. Hempstead, Uniondale, and other parts of Long Island have recently been transformed and enriched by an influx of Spanish-speakers. In this course, you will deepen your understanding of some of these communities—Nuyoricans, Dominicans, Mexicans, Salvadorans, Cubans, Panamanians, Ecuadorans, and Colombians, among others—by reading about issues such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, migration histories, border politics, bilingualism, and code-switching. Sources for the course will include literary, historical, and sociological texts, popular music, films, and artistic projects. Class assignments have an important fieldwork component aimed at engaging with local Hispanic or Latinx communities, in addition to a research component. The course prepares you to work professionally with these growing communities at a local, national and transnational level.


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