Nicholas De Genova
416 Hamilton Hall
Office Hours:
Tuesdays, 1:00 -3:00 pm
Tel. 854-0199
Email. npd18@columbia.edu |
Class Meetings
TR 4:10pm-5:25pm
503 Hamilton Hall |
This course offers an introduction to the historical relationships of various
Latin American peoples to the United States, and their respective experiences
as "Latinos" within the U.S. from a comparative historical and
transnational perspective. Latinos (or "Hispanics") are not one
people defined by a singular shared history of relationship with the U.S.
nation-state, nor do all Latino groups have a common experience in the U.S.
Through reading s and discussions of primary and secondary texts, this course
examines the various histories of Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, Cubans, Dominicans,
and other Latin American groups, and the transformations of the United States
in relation to them, with a special interest in the possibilities for, as
well as the obstacles to, convergences among Latinos along social and political
lines. |