Submitted by Stephen Dunne
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Winter 2023CHSTU 405 Advanced Chicano Studies In Social Science"Latinx Bodies, Migration, Technology and Power”TuTh 3:30-5:20pm
Denny Hall 256
SLN 12593This seminar is a sociological examination of the Latinx body as a central location from which to examine the relationship across labor, technology and migration. How are Latinx bodies used AND how do Latinxs use their own bodies in developing labor, technology and migration? The concepts of digitizing migrant identities and surveillance capitalism will serve as the context for talking about technology, surveillance, labor, race, resistance and self-expression. Drawing on interdisciplinary works in the social sciences, some of the topics we’ll explore are: changing technology in workplaces, immigration courts, border and security practices, identity documents, humanitarian technology, and social media, just to name a few. This is a seminar, which is an advanced upper-division course. Participation is necessary and important in every meeting. A basic familiarity with discourses in race, ethnicity, and gender as well as studies in labor, inequality and globalization is helpful, though not required. Course readings are interdisciplinary from Latinx studies, sociology, anthropology, ethnic and critical race studies, history and socio-legal studies.