This course is designed to introduce students to the interdisciplinary field of Latinx Studies in the United States. Considering that, since the beginning of the 21st Century, the Latinx communities make up the largest minority population of the nation, this course addresses some of the most pressing issues related to the so-called Latinx experience. Questions of immigration, assimilation, and discrimination will be addressed alongside issues related to language and identity in the contemporary cultural production and lived experience of various Latinx communities. The course will also highlight the historical and contemporary issues that shape the political, social and cultural practices and experiences of Latinx subjects through the study of cultural products emerging from a bilingual milieu. Films, performances, visual art and fiction produced in both English and Spanish by Spanish-speaking Latin Americans and U.S. Latinxs will be analyzed with close attention to their socio-historical context. The course particularly emphasizes works produced by the three major Latinx groups in the United States during the 20th and 21st centuries (Mexican Americans or Chicanos, Puerto Ricans or Nuyoricans, and Cuban Americans) but it also looks at some pieces representative of other Latinx identities. Students will be furnished with critical tools to analyze questions of racial, ethnic, gender, and cultural identities. Course materials will be organized thematically and chronologically. The course will be conducted in English.