Chicana/O Amer Hist & Culture

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<b><font color="7A0018">Begins Fall 2025</b></font><br> This interdisciplinary course examines the social, political, and cultural roots of Chicana/os, tracing history from their Indigenous, African, and Spanish beginnings to the present. It analyzes race, ethnicity, and culture, in relation to Chicana/o communities and their social justice movements and struggles. The course provides a basis for a better understanding of the socio-economic, cultural, and political conditions among Chicana/os through historical consideration of the creation and development of Ethnic Studies programs in the United States. Special emphasis is also placed on the contributions of Chicana/o scholars, artists, and activists by using an intersectional decolonial lens to explore the effects of (neo)colonialism, imperialism, white supremacy, Eurocentrism, and racism.