MODULE NO. 1: LATIN@ STUDIES AND POSTCOLONIAL THOUGHT
Week 1: August 30 – September 3
Material:
You bring out the Mexican in me, Sandra Cisneros
To-do List:
- Week 1 Discussion Forum (DF)
- Annotations of “Part I Mankind’s Poverty as a Consequence of the Wealth of the Land” Pages 11-20 (PDF) in Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent. New York :Monthly Review Press, 1997.
Week 2: September 6 – September 10
Material:
“Part I Mankind’s Poverty as a Consequence of the Wealth of the Land” Pages 11-20 in Open Veins of Latin America : Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent. New York :Monthly Review Press, 1997. Brooklyn College Library E-Book (login to Brooklyn College library to read online or download the chapter)
To-do List:
- Week 2 Discussion Forum
- Annotations of Partha Chatterjee The Nation and its Fragments “Whose Imagined Community?” Pages 3-6 (PDF)
Week 3: September 13 – September 17
Material:
Partha Chatterjee The Nation and its Fragments “Whose Imagined Community?” Pages 3-6 (PDF)
To-do List:
Week 4: September 20 – September 24
Material:
- A Lower East Side poem, by Miguel Piñero & Video
- Raquel Salas Rivera: “the Independence (of Puerto Rico)”
- Residente, Bad Bunny and Ile: Afilando los cuchillos
To-do List:
Quiz No.1
Week 5: September 27 – October 1
Material:
- Poem “Boca Grande” by Peggy Robles Alvarado, in Manteca: An Anthology of Afro-latin@ Poets
- Caridad de la Luz aka La Bruja, Poetry Jam links and other videos
- Princess Nokia: Tomboy, Brujas, About G.O.A.T, G.o.a.t and Documentary
To-do List:
- Annotations of Chapter 3. “The Uses of Sidewalks: Contact” (Link to publicly accessible book)
- Watch Documentary Citizen Jane: Battle for the City (In library Collection) Citizen Jane, Directed by Matt Tyrnauer, 2016.
MODULE NO.2: DISPLACEMENT
Week 6: October 4 – October 8
Material:
- Chapter 3. “The Uses of Sidewalks: Contact” (Link to publicly accessible book)
- Documentary Citizen Jane: Battle for the City (BC Library Collection) Citizen Jane, Directed by Matt Tyrnauer, 2016
To-do List:
Week 7: October 11 – October 15
Material:
- Jana Leo’s Personal Page
- Jana Leo – “How and Why I started a lawsuit against my landlord” & “Domestophobia and Prisonland” in Rape New York, Jana Leo, Feminist Press, 2011 (Brooklyn College Library Link to e-book)
- Dominican Historic Neighborhoods platform
To-do List:
Week 8: October 18 – October 22
Material:
- The Young Lords: Youtube Democracy Now Documentary & Youtube Playlist
- Young Lords 13-Point Program
- Photodocumentary: The early days of the Nuyorican poets café, Photo-documentary by Paul Hosefros (1976) (Link)
- In Class Film by Iris López rented by Professor
To-do List
Annotations of “La fiesta de los Linares” by Janet Arelis Quezada in Ambientes New Queer Latino Writing (BC Library), edited by Lazaro Lima and Felipe Picano.
MODULE NO.3: ART AND ACTIVISM OF LATIN@ CULTURES
Week 9: October 25 – October 29
Material:
“La Fiesta de los Linares” by Janet Arelis Quezada in Ambientes New Queer Latino Writing (BC Library), edited by Lazaro Lima and Felipe Picano.
To-do List:
Quiz No. 2
Week 10: November 1 – November 5
Material:
To-do List
Week 11: November 8 – November 12
Material:
- Poems by Natasha Carrizosa & Natalie N. Caro in This bridge called my back: radical writings from Women of Color ed. by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria E. Anzaldúa (1981)
- Cherrie Moraga Video & Website
To-do List:
Bring to class internet search results of the following hashtags: #SomoslosotrosNY, #Runningforayotzinapa, #AyotzinapaNY.
Week 12: November 15 – November 19
Material:
Running for Ayotzinapa: A father’s marathon to find his son
To do list:
- Quiz No.3
- Bring to class internet search results of “Selena Quintanilla”
Week 13: November 22 – November 26
Material:
Case Study Selena Quintanilla
To-do List:
Week 14: November 29 – December 3
Material:
Poem “Sleepless City” by Federico García Lorca: visions of the city
To-do List:
- Week 15 Discussion Forum
- Quiz No. 4
Week 15: December 6 – December 10
Preparing the final
