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Seminar: Aufbaumodul: Kulturwissenschaft I (ANG.05272.04): The US-Mexico Border (Afternoon) - Details
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Course name Seminar: Aufbaumodul: Kulturwissenschaft I (ANG.05272.04): The US-Mexico Border (Afternoon)
Subtitle La Frontera: The US-Mexico Border
Semester SS 2021
Current number of participants 22
maximum number of participants 30
Home institute Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Courses type Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
First date Monday, 12.04.2021 13:00 - 14:30, Room: Seminarraum 3 [AKStr.35] (Angl.)
Pre-requisites Students who have successfully passed their "Introduction to Anglo-American Cultural Studies” are welcome to this class on the US-Mexico border.
ECTS points 5

Module assignments

Comment/Description

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.

Admission settings

The course is part of admission "Teilnehmerbeschränkung Kulturwissenschaft I".