LSP 3678

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LSP 3678
Diasporas, Disasters, and Dissent: Re-Thinking Puerto Rican Studies in the 20th and 21st Centuries

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2024-2025. The Catalog/Courses of Study 2025-2026 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

"Foreign in a domestic sense" is the perplexing way that the Supreme Court of the United States chose to define Puerto Rico's status in the so-called "Insular Cases" of the early 20th century. Written over 100 years ago, this contradictory ruling looms large over Puerto Rico's precarious legal standing, despite the fact that there are now more Puerto Ricans living on the US mainland than in the island itself. Seeking to counter the obfuscation of Puerto Rico in the US imaginary, in this course students will analyze how key historical, political, and social moments connected to diasporas, disasters, and dissent have galvanized Puerto Rican cultural production in the 20th and 21st centuries.

When Offered Fall or Spring.

Distribution Category (GLC-AS) (CA-AG)

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3679, ENGL 3678, SPAN 3675

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9429 LSP 3678   SEM 101

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    • MW
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Hey-Colon, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person