Course Description: The course focuses on the major US Latina/Latino writers and texts and their depictions of the events that have shaped 20^th-Century US Latina/Latino cultures. The course five divisions explore: 1) Pioneers and the Great Migrations —the aftermath of the Spanish-American War of 1898, the Mexican Revolution of 1910, and the Great Depression; 2) Pre-Movement—World War II, Puerto Rico's Operation Bootstrap; 3) the Cuban Revolution; 4) Puerto Rican and Chicano Civil Rights Movements—Identity and Marginality, Migrant Workers, Education, Language, Place, and Feminism; and 5) Post Movement—Latinidad, Gender and Sexuality in the Post-Movement.

Goals: Students taking the course will 1)  acquire a solid background of the major cultural developments pertaining to the construction of US Latina/Latino cultures in the 20th century; 2)  attain, through the reading of the literature, a solid theoretical understanding of Feminism, Gender Theory, Literary History, Autobiography, Historiography, and Deconstruction; 3) develop critical skills through writing; 4) become familiar with web-based technology.