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Spring 2017 Semester: From the Barrio

From the Barrio: The Politics of US Latino/a Literature

Dr. Elena Machado Sáez

MWF 11:00-11:52am

Travel down the mean streets and go uptown to the heights! Check out NYC through the perspective of US Latino/a authors from the 1960s to the present. Puerto Rican, Cuban-American, and Dominican-American writers reimagine what it means to belong in barrios of the big Apple.

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This course fulfills the W2 writing requirement, the “Diversity in the US” CCC requirement, the Race/Ethnic Literature course requirement for the English major, and also counts towards the Race and Ethnicity Studies Minor program.