Spring 2020, Professor Francisco Soto
Focus: Hispanic/Latinx Nueva York
Mondays, 2:30–5:30pm (2M-205)
New (6 April): Instructions for creating your final project are found here.
After an introduction to New York City’s long history as a city of immigrants, the seminar will focus specifically on the Puerto Rican, Dominican, and Cuban immigrant experiences. While one would expect that the immigrants from these three Spanish-speaking Caribbean countries would share similar histories, issues and concerns, the course will highlight the diversity of immigrant experiences even for these groups; this is an essential lesson for students to better understand the complexities and difficulties of speaking about immigration with broad strokes. The goal of the course is to show the human face and individual stories of these three immigrant groups in New York City, especially in light of the current political debates taking place in Washington D.C. concerning immigration reform that so often are framed in abstract/general terms.
