Readings

• Duelo: Memorias de Una Invasión

• Unfinished Sentences

• The Right to Grow Old

• When We Were Young

• Black Central Americas

• Recuerdos de Nicaragua 

Readings

• Chapter 1 in Constituting Central American-Americans (pp. 23-48) 

• Chapter 2 in Central America's Forgotten History (pp. 20-44)

• Hooker 2010: “Race and the Space of Citizenship” (pp. 246-277)

Readings

• Introduction in U.S. Central Americans (pp. 3-35) 

• Chapter 3 in Taking Children (pp. 76-102)

• Chapter 17 in The Routledge History of Modern Latin American Migration (pp. 232-245)

Readings

• Chapter 12 in The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises (pp. 213-228)

• Chapter 4 in The Fourth Invasion (pp. 111-130)

• Castillo 2019: “Leave or Die” 

• Meléndez-Sánchez & Vergara 2024: “The Bukele Model” (pp. 84-98)

• Dichos de un Bicho 2025: “President for Life”

Readings

• Chapter 1 in From Threatening Guerillas to Forever Illegals (pp. 17-44)

• Chapter 3 in Precarity and Belonging (pp. 51-66)

• Chapter 4 in Constituting Central American–Americans (pp. 111-138)

• Chapter 1 in Space of Detention (pp. 53-74)

Readings

• Chapter 5 in Taking Children (pp. 128-166)

• Bailey et al. 2002: “(Re)producing  Salvadoran Transnational Geographies” (pp. 125-144)

• Chapter 3 in From Threatening Guerillas to Forever Illegals (pp. 66-88. Austin)

• "The End of TPS" Contracorriente

Readings

• Herrera 2016: “Racialized Illegality” (pp. 320-343)

• Chapter 7 in U.S. Central Americans (pp. 166–187)

• Chapter 2 in U.S. Central Americans (pp. 60-76)

• Chapter 2 in From Threatening Guerillas to Forever Illegals (pp. 45-65)

Readings

• Chapter 2 in Constituting Central American–Americans (pp. 49-76)

• Introduction in Panama in Black (pp. 1-28)

• Chapter 3 in U.S. Central Americans (pp. 77-97)

• Corinealdi, Cuéllar, & López Oro 2025: “On Isthmian Knowing” (pp. 119-123)

• Zerón & Romero 2025: “Our Existence, Our Memory” (pp. 186-193)

Readings

• Doig-Acuña 2025: “Memory-Keepers” (pp. 163–71)

• Corinealdi & Warren 2025: “Bringing Research Home” (pp. 194–200)

• Ramsey 2024: “Unruly Diasporas” (pp. 63–80)

• Chapter 2 in Visual Disobedience (pp. 78-131)

Readings

• Chapter 8 in Central American Counterpoetics (pp. 109-130)

• Huezo 2025: “Narrating One’s Own History in El Salvador” (pp. 220–27)

• De Leon 2025: “LGBTIQ+ Knowledge Production from Below” (pp. 228–233)

• Linton-Villafranco 2024: “Technologies of Care” (pp. 30-67)

• Chapter 1 in Visual Disobedience (pp. 35-77)

• Chapter 3 in Visual Disobedience (pp. 132-176)

Readings

• Conclusion in Panama in Black (pp. 180-194)

• Chapter 9 in Central American Counterpoetics (pp. 109-130)

• Chapter 4 in Visual Disobedience (pp. 177-230) 

• Grimaldi & López. 2025. “‘Prison Bars Will Not Silence the Truth’” (pp. 150–56)

Groups will use class time to work on their capstone projects. Instructors will offer guidance and feedback when necessary. Groups will share their progress at the end of class. 

Assignments

Capstone Branch 

• • • • • Weekly Progress Update, Nov 21 @ 11:59 pm

Groups will present their capstone projects to peers and community partners. 

Students must submit the final two assignments: an individual self-assessment and group self-assessment about their capstone projects by December 11 at 11:59pm.