TY - JOUR AU - Segura, Denise PY - 2010/04/26 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - SOCIOLOGY 144/CHICANO STUDIES 144: CHICANO/LATINO COMMUNITIES JF - TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology JA - TRAILS VL - IS - SE - DO - UR - https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/sociology-144chicano-studies-144-chicanolatino SP - AB - This course delves into the worlds of Chicano/Mexican and Latino communities in the U.S., with an emphasis on California. We examine "community" as territorial, imagined, and diverse. We begin with an overview of the meaning of community among Chicanos/Latinos followed by an analysis of the historical development of their distinctive qualities. We engage ethnographic portraits of Chicano/Latino communities to explore socio-economic and cultural dynamics that reflect development, persistence, and change. Within our inquiry, major themes include: identity, community, global interdependence, immigration, gender, and empowerment. We, simultaneously, consider processes of cultural persistence and social change in diverse settings. We examine the emergence of community as a unit for social organizing and activity. Ultimately, the course seeks to interrogate some of the dynamics at work within Chicano/Latino communities and how they have shaped the life chances of these populations. ER -