Second Exam

In the in-class exam, you will select four critical questions (out of ten) about the class sources. They will allow you to practice your analytical skills.

Focus on the following topics and sources:

.Teaching innovations catered to Black, Puerto Rican, Latinx students via SEEK (Reed’s “Creating the Black University, Black City and Life Studies, ”)

.The importance and reverberations of the 1969 strike at CCNY (Reed’s “Creating the Black University, Black City and Life Studies, ”)

.Definition of the Afro-Latine identity in the US and the concept of triple consciousness (Jiménez Román and Flores’ Introduction to the Afro-Latin@ Reader)

.Recentering Blackness and Black experiences within notions of Afro-Latinidad (Zamora’s “Transnational Renderings of Negra”)

.Self-knowledge, community building, ancestral lands, and Black Central American cultures (Janel Martínez’ s “Abuela’s Greatest Gift” and “Paraíso Negro” by Khalil Haywood)

.Cultural politics of Blackness in salsa and reggaetón (Rivera Rideau’s “Cocolos Modernos”)

.Building Afro-Latinx and gender critiques through salsa (Gautier’s “Aguanile”)

.Dominican ethnic and racial formations; mestizaje and antiblackness ( Lamb’s “Do Plátanos Go Wit’ Collard Greens”)

.Racialization, police violence, and community activism (Heredia’s “Muchacho”)