LIT 364 Literature by Immigrants of Color

General

• Students can articulate, both verbally and in writing, the ways that U.S. immigrants of color utilize their writings to represent their experiences as American immigrants and the complexities of acculturation.
• Students can articulate, both verbally and in writing, the ways that U.S. immigrants of color utilize their writings to represent their experiences as American immigrants.
• Students develop the ability to analyze a range of texts (autobiographies, fiction, poetry, spoken-word, music/dance, film) for their historical and socio-cultural content.
• Students can explain how the concerns articulated by immigrants of color intersect with broader social categories including race, gender, sexuality, religion, class and citizenship status.
• Students can explain how the concerns articulated by immigrants of color intersect with broader social categories such as sexuality, age, religion, race, and class.
• Students demonstrate, through discussions and small-group activities, how texts by U.S. immigrants of color reflect and respond to racism, sexism, classism, and other forms of bigotry, and how immigrant activism reshapes cultural spaces in the United States.
• Students demonstrate, through discussions and small-group activities, the complexities of acculturation and how immigrant activism also reshapes cultural spaces in the United States.
• Students can explain through collaborative projects and peer-led activities the significance and implications of immigration as an institution of racialized gatekeeping that has influenced and been shaped by contemporary discourses of race and racism.
• Students can explain through collaborative projects and peer-led activities the significance and implications of immigration studies on human rights, citizenship, and increasingly globalized communities.