Latino and Latin American Studies

What is LLAS? 

Latino and Latin American Studies (LLAS) is an interdisciplinary area of scholarship that explores the past, present, and future of these communities. It engages scholarly frameworks that, even as they draw from field specific research techniques such as literary or anthropological analysis, engage different critical ways of knowing from Latino and Latin American perspectives in order to reframe how information is identified, examined, and questioned. This program thereby attends to one of the fastest growing demographics in the U.S. and assists in providing students with different paths of inquiry into the worlds in which they live.

This program explores the multiple roots that comprise Latino and Latin American identity in all its variations. It questions the histories of different nations, specific communities within the nation-state, and the multiple formations of coloniality that have led to our current moment. This program also encourages students to consider how to reformulate understandings of contemporary public issues and the viability of alternative forms of knowledge as providing key insights into potential platforms for social-justice activities and initiatives. 

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