This seminar examines the development of Mexican-American, Puerto Rican, and other Hispanic radical political movements and discourses that have sought to challenge dominant paradigms of Manifest Destiny, colonialism, racial and ethnic subordination and segregation, marginalized class structures, and oppressive gender relations. Latinos and Latinas have a long tradition of radical politics that precede the emergence of the Chicano and Puerto Rican civil rights, nationalist, and other radical movements of the 1960s-1970s. Since these radical traditions have always emerged also as critical responses to mainstream assimilationist movements, the seminar will also devote time to consider non-radical Latino and Latina politics. This course will focus on these experiences by carefully studying both primary and secondary sources covering the period from the mid-19^th to the late 20^th centuries.

Prof. Luis A. Figueroa
Luis.Figueroa@trincoll.edu
Seabury Hall 12-C
Tel. 297-5285
Office Hours:
M & W, 1:30-3pm
or by appointment