Developed by Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana, Baruch College
This teaching material was developed as a result of the CUNY 1969 Teach-in & Retreat that took place in Summer 2024. The assignment asks students to interpret the archive and reflect on its relevance to contemporary social and political issues through the creation of both digital and physical posters.
The Teaching Material
Assignment type:
Lesson plan, Fieldwork, Visual analysis
Keywords:
Activism, Posters, Student Movement, Art Exhibition, Digital Archive
Faculty Information
Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana is an Assistant Professor in Chicano/a/x Studies at the Weismann School of Arts and Sciences, Black and Latino Studies (BLS) Department at Baruch College. She is a cultural worker and interdisciplinary qualitative Latinx public scholar who studies contemporary processes of migration. Her current research project focuses on childhood arrival migrants to the United States. Her academic craft centers Indigenous and feminist pedagogies and methodologies to acknowledge different forms of accessible, reciprocal knowledge-making responsive to community needs. Lizbeth holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis, specializing in Latin American Literature and Cultures and a designated emphasis on Human Rights.
Licensing Information
“Illustrating the CUNY 1969 Archive Through Poster Making” is licensed under CC BY-NC. This license allows re-users to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format for noncommercial purposes only, and only so long as attribution is given to the creator.
“Illustrating the CUNY 1969 Archive Through Poster Making” created by Lizbeth De La Cruz Santana is an open educational resource (OER).
