This course is an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of Chicana Studies. Through a historical and contemporary investigation on labor, political involvement, cultural studies, and feminisms, the purpose of this course is to familiarize students with the diversity and complexity of Chicana experiences. Course materials will highlight and contextualize Chicana/Mexican/Indigenous women’s challenge to notions of inferiority and rationalizations for dominance through social, economic, political, and power contestations. Moreover, careful analysis exposes how women resist and serve as agents of social and political change in the formation of society and state.