Latin American and Latino Studies

LALS 80C Power and Resistance in the Americas: Cross-Border Social Movements

Focuses on politics of power and resistance regarding major cross-border issues facing Latin Americans and Latinos in the 21st century. Emphasizes migration and migrant organizing; neoliberal free trade and implications for labor; organizing by women's, indigenous, and ecological movements; and for democracy and human rights. Many specific cases drawn from binational Central American experiences.

Credits

5

General Education Code

CC

Quarter offered

Winter, Summer

Instructor

Susanne Jonas, Guillermo Delgado-P