This course explores different cultural and theoretical narratives in order to analyze the discrimination suffered by immigrants from North African, Latin American and East European countries (and also Spanish minority populations like gypsies) in Spain in the last forty years based on their race, ethnicity, religion, and gender.

This course attempts to position the different ethnic identities inside the framework of nation-states in order to understand how prejudice and racism use the concept of race to convert minorities into scapegoats.

The course load utilizes two different types of materials. Firstly, students will engage with different cultural genres covering a large section of the arts in order to form a clear picture of immigration in Spanish society: films (fiction and documentary), a novel, short stories, music, theatre, photography, graphic novels, speeches, poetry, and journalist articles. On the other hand, students will read theoretical texts to analyze the aforementioned texts and to familiarize themselves with the concepts of race, ethnicity, religion, social class, and gender that we will be exploring in class.

This course counts toward the Spanish major and as literature credit toward the Spanish minor.