The Program in Latino/a Studies in the Global South (LSGS) allows students to expand on their knowledge of the U.S. Latino and Latina population by combining classes from across the humanities, social sciences, and professional schools. LSGS has a unique focus. It seeks to situate the inquiry of Latino/a Studies in a particular geographic space: the U.S. South and the Global South. LSGS enables historical and emerging considerations of the construction of race and ethnicity transnationally. It connects with the cross-disciplinary analysis and knowledges imparted in African and African American Studies, American Studies, and Latin American Studies. The conceptual space and epistemological apparatus of the "Global South" is also an analytic pathway that brings out possibilities vis-à-vis historical events, regional differences, demographic transitions, and geopolitical hierarchies. The Global South promotes debate, continuous rethinking, and casts light on the entanglements of our contemporary moment, paired with the sociopolitical realities that shape being Latino and Latina in the world.
Read latinidad across critical differences in this literary seminar on major historical events shaping the nineteenth century US political landscape. From the Indian Removal Act, the Revolution of Texas and the Mexican American War, to the US Civil War, the Chinese Exclusion Act and the Spanish... read more »
Erick Daniel Aguilar was born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras where he lived until moving to Mount Olive, North Carolina at the age of six. His Program II major focused on Migration Geographies of Undocumented Labor. He is interested in the intersection of immigration, globalization, and labor rights. He hopes to pursue a J.D./Ph.D. in human geography.
In addition to the LSGS certificate, I’m graduating with a degree in Civil Engineering (structural focus) and a certificate in Architectural Engineering. Throughout my experience, I have connected these fields of study through analyzing the relationships between humans and the built environment: how and why buildings are designed and constructed, how architecture influences human behavior and... Read More
I was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and have been interested in cultural studies from an early stage as an undergraduate at Duke. Over the past four years, I have mostly worked with postcolonial and political-economic theory. My involvement in the LSGS Certificate program exposed me to the works of many thinkers from multiple fields, all of whom attempt to grapple with what it... Read More
