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Seminar: Aufbaumodul: Kulturwissenschaft I (ANG.05272.04): The US-Mexico Border (Afternoon) - Details
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Veranstaltungsname Seminar: Aufbaumodul: Kulturwissenschaft I (ANG.05272.04): The US-Mexico Border (Afternoon)
Untertitel La Frontera: The US-Mexico Border
Semester SS 2021
Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden 22
maximale Teilnehmendenanzahl 30
Heimat-Einrichtung Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Veranstaltungstyp Seminar in der Kategorie Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Erster Termin Montag, 12.04.2021 13:00 - 14:30, Ort: Seminarraum 3 [AKStr.35] (Angl.)
Voraussetzungen Students who have successfully passed their "Introduction to Anglo-American Cultural Studies” are welcome to this class on the US-Mexico border.
ECTS-Punkte 5

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Conventionally borders are understood as the territorial boundaries of nation-states. Border studies have nonetheless come to show that apart from physical places, borders are also figurative sites of identity, culture, and community.
This class covers important aspects of cultural history for the region, such as the role of colonialism and US imperialism in shaping the border and oral history as a means of spreading and preserving ordinary people’s experience of border life. We will study and discuss the border as a space of racial and ethnic division and contact. Herein, US immigration politics of the 20th and 21st century, such as the mid-century ‘Bracero’ program and the more recent ‘Zero Tolerance’ policy, play an important role. We will also study and analyze the portrayal of immigration conflict at the border in the Netflix series “Immigration Nation” (2020) and in the creative nonfiction piece "The Devil's Highway" (2004) by Luis Alberto Urrea. A further topic of study will be activism and protest, during the Civil Rights Movement and in contemporary border wall art.

***Please note***:
Pending further developments in the course of the semester, this class is scheduled to take place as a digital seminar with synchronous and asynchronous sessions.

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Diese Veranstaltung gehört zum Anmeldeset "Teilnehmerbeschränkung Kulturwissenschaft I".