TAUGHT IN ENGLISH, Gen Ed for “Literature and the Arts” and “US Minority Cultures;" This course studies the relationships between Latinx and Latin American culture through exciting films. It focuses on a set of current and relevant topics (migrations, assimilation and integration, ICE, political struggles, globalization, nationalism and transnationalism). No prerequisites. Lectures Online and Section Face to Face. The class will expose and go beyond stereotypes about Latinx and Latin Americans typically seen on the screen (...

Why is extractivism the dominant paradigm for development in Latin America? And how can cultural production, from literature to film, help contest its damaging effects and imagine other ways of relating to the nonhuman world?