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Schedule and Readings

Topic: Welcome, Course Overview, Syllabus and Introductions

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    • Course-session activity/reflections/critical responses – (began reading for Weeks 2/3)

Topic: Origins of Ethnic Studies (and Puerto Rican Studies in NYC)

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  3. Assignments Due: Course-session activity.

Topic: Latinx Settlement Patterns – Demographics, Historical Origins

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  2. Assignment Due:
    • Mapping Exercise/Summary

Topics: Latinidades: Minoritization, & Racialization, and the Afro-Latinx Experience.

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  2. Assignments Due: Course-session Activity.

Topic:  U.S. Afro-Latinx communities, cont.

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A Garifuna ritual gathering to honor the ancestors at Orchard Beach in the Bronx, New York, June 2017. (Paul Joseph López Oro)
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  2. Assignments Due: Response Paper #1 Due
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Aida Lambert (center) is honored as Madrina de Festival Centroamérica during the 2014 Central American Parade and Festival in Crotona Park in the Bronx, New York. (Paul Joseph López Oro)

Topic: Latinidades: Borders, Immigration, Social Media and Case Study: NYC Refugee Crisis.

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  3. Assignments Due: Annotated Reference Activity #1 & Brief presentations.

Topic: Social Movements – Defund the what? Latinxs and Policing

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  2. Assignments Due: Course-session activity.

Topic: CUNY Archival Searches

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  2. Assignments Due:
    • Annotated Reference #2
    • Course-session Activity presentations.

Topic: Latinidades: Remaking the Narrative at Brooklyn College and CUNY.

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  2. AS MTSRP (2021, December 3). “Why is there no Asian American Studies Program in Brooklyn College?” #Time4AAPIS (see below)
  3. Assignments Due: Course-session Activity.
Description: Brooklyn College and CUNY have told the activists fighting for the last 25+ years for an Asian American Studies Program, in some subtle and not-so-subtle ways, that they don’t care. The Asian American Studies Project, as part of the Mellon Transfer Student Research Program, is researching that activism, delving into the necessity of AA/AAPI Studies Program at Brooklyn College, and exposing the emotional toll of constant dismissal and invalidation.

Topic: Hess Scholar Week – Barbara Smith – March 13-20

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  2. Assignments Due: Response Paper #2
  3. Attend one event below:

Topic: Digital Storytelling

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  2. Assignments Due:
    • Annotated Reference #3
    • Brief presentations.

Topic: Latino Foods and Transforming Urban Spaces

  1. Readings Due:
    • Introduction In Lemon, R. (2019). The Taco Truck: How Mexican Street Food Is Transforming the American City. University of Illinois Press. (Read first 7 pages)

Topic: Cultural Appropriation

  1. Readings Due:
Latinos Who Lunch (Episode 173). Dr. Sánchez Prado, Mexican Food & The Legacy Of Bayless And Kennedy (PodCast) (1:32:48). I am most concerned with you listening to the interview with Dr. Prado, feel free to skip to the section with his interview which starts at approximately 15minutes and ends at approximately the 1hour mark. (Contains ads and promotions; no endorsements, affiliations, or association with the course).

Topic: Critical Race Theory and Latinxs

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What is ‘Critical Race Theory’ & Why It Matters To Latinos

Topic: Latinidades: Women and Social Movements

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  2. Assignments Due: Annotated Bibliography Activity #2.

Topics: Latinxs and Climate Change:

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Final Reflections/Assessments – Last Response (Final) Paper Due