MAS 374 Latinx Masculinities

TTH 2-3:30 pm #40355

MEZ 2.124 Sergio G. Barrera

Mexican American and Latino men have been called machistas, patriarchs, emotionless, and narcos among other things; but are they capable of more? In this course, we will explore the history of U.S. Latinx masculinities and intergenerational Latin American masculinities to understand the academic, social, cultural, and political rhetoric that has influenced how the media, government, and communities have depicted Latinx men and their masculinities. We will begin by understanding Latinx men under the context of 19th and 20th century displacement, (im)migration, war, and terrorism, alongside anthropological and sociological texts about Mexican American/Latino families and men that have haunted Latinx masculinities in present day. We will then work through how Latinx communities, and Latinx people have actively protested heteropatriarchal values, behaviors, and representations linked to Latinx masculinities and Latinx men. In this course we will closely look at the influences of family, religion, politics, (im)migration, language, citizenship, race, gender, sexuality, class, and education in order to analyze intersectionality, power, privilege, performance, and resistance.