Proposing Faculty Member: Christina Gerken
Description: This course will examine how immigrants have shaped America and how the immigration experience alters their own gender, racial, and class identity. Much of the recent debate about immigrants and asylum seekers has perpetuated negative stereotypes and portrayed immigration as an “unprecedented problem.” This course will provide historical context and analyze how our current rhetoric is deeply rooted in 19th and 20th century conversations about what it means to be American and who should be allowed to immigrate.