SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND REVOLUTIONS IN LATIN AMERICA

3-4 credits.

Explores how race, gender, and sexuality intersect with language and shape textual experiences. From marriage licenses and "don't ask, don't tell" policies to anti-slavery petitions and hashtag activism, writing has enforced, and challenged, social expectations in the United States. Examine public debates and everyday writing practices that engage with race and sex to effect change. Analyze the power of language to harm and heal, using approaches from writing studies and rhetoric to explore historical and contemporary connections among identity, text, and social life.