LLAS 5105-001/HDFS 5002-001: Latina/os: Race, Reproduction, and Immigration

Instructor: Marysol Asencio

Professor Asencio invites Honors students to enroll in her new graduate course. With your Honors advisor’s approval, graduate courses may be included in your Honors Final Plan of Study for graduation. They also count toward your Honors participation requirements.

Description: This interdisciplinary social science course centers on the racial framing of the Latina/o population in the United States in terms of reproduction and immigration. This course utilizes an intersectional lens to explore the connections of race, gender, class, national origin, religion, and sexuality within structures of power, nation-building, citizenship, and the attending social and health inequities. The course begins with the development of the concept of race and racial concerns and policies targeting reproduction and immigration across key periods in U.S. history. Thus, providing a background to current debates/concerns, policies, and the material conditions of Latina/os and other minority populations in terms of reproduction and immigration. The course will cover structural racism and privilege, racial-ethnic identification, citizenship, documented and undocumented immigration, fertility, families, motherhood, children, reproductive health access and care as well as the structural continuation of social and health inequities within the United States. The course will also address the connections of race, reproduction and immigration in the United States with the global south.