Week 1
2/2
Introduction
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Synchronous Screening:
Back to Manahatta: The Return of the Lenape (Steward Hungtington, 2021)
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Gumbs, Alexis Pauline. Dub: Finding Ceremony. Duke University Press, 2020 (Selection)
Week 2
2/9
Gumbs, Alexis Pauline. Dub: Finding Ceremony. Duke University Press, 2020 (Selection)
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Mbembe, Achille. “The Subject of Race.” Critique of Black Reason. Duke University Press, 2017.
2/10
Event:
Black and Latino Studies Department’s Open House at 1pm via Zoom. Registration Link:
https://baruch.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIvcO2opzMjGtH4wWArYR0g-UvDOLX_FFap
Week 3
2/16
Brown, Ariana. We are Owed. Grieveland, 2021. (Selection)
Class Presentation (s):
*Extra credit opportunity*
Week 4
2/23
Zavala Guillen, Ana Laura. “Afro-Latin American Geographies of In-betweenness: Colonial Marronage in Colombia.” Journal of Historical Geographies. Volume 72, April 2021, Pages 1-12 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2020.11.003
Class Presentation (s):
Event:
ISLA Presents: CARNIVAL/CARNAVAL: Celebrating the Great Afro-Latinx Tradition in the Americas
Week 5
3/1
Event:
Black Studies Colloquium Event 6:00 pm
*Extra-credit opportunity*
Film Discussion on Quilombo (Recording) with Dr. Tshombe Miles, Dr. Erica Richardson, and Dr. Rojo Robles
3/2
Asynchronous Screening:
Quilombo (Carlos Diegues, 1984)
Lebrón Ortiz, Pedro. “Maroon Logics as Flight from the Euromodern.” Transmodernity: Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World, 9(2).
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5k54f73z
Class Presentation (s):
Week 6
3/9
Girmay, Aracelis.“From Woe to Wonder.” TheParisReview.org. https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/06/22/from-woe-to-wonder/
Class Presentation (s):
Week 7
3/16
Review
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Midterm project workshop
*Deadline to complete any missed assignment.*
Event:
Black Studies Colloquium Presents:
“An Indestructible Life: Reflections on Marronage” March 16, 6:00pm on Zoom
Guest scholar, Pedro Lebron Ortiz will focus on his work “An Indestructible Life: Reflections on Marronage” moderated by Professor Robles. The zoom registration link is here.
Week 8
3/23
Midterm Projects asynchronous submissions via email until 11:59 pm.
Week 9
3/30
Asynchronous Screening:
The Uprising of Dignity: The Zapatista Movement in Chiapas/Mexico (Manchester Zapatista Collective, 2016)
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EZLN-CCRI. “Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle (Sexta Declaración de la Selva Lacandona),” 2005.
Class Presentation (s):
Sterling Vargas,Lourdes Elizabeth
Online Event
4/1
12:30-2:00 pm
Black Futures in the Classroom: Fireside Chat with Dr. Rojo Robles and Dr. Angie Beeman
A conversation about engaging with Black Studies through research, teaching, and creative projects
Register here
Week 10
4/6
Asynchronous screening:
Even the Rain. (Icíar Bollaín, 2010)
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Solnit, David. “Reflections From Bolivia: Water Wars, Climate Wars and Change from Below.” Upsidedownworld.org. https://upsidedownworld.org/archives/bolivia/reflections-from-bolivia-water-wars-climate-wars-and-change-from-below/
Class presentation (s):
Week 11
4/13
Synchronous screening
“Peru’s Quechua Indians: Culture and family traditions of the Inca descendants” https://youtu.be/YV6hij9njw8
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Tucker, Joshua. “Nature’s Sonorous Politics” ReVista Winter 2016
Event:
Thursday, April 14
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
A Conversation about Climate Justice, speaker, Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author
Join us for a “Conversation about Climate Justice” with Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs, author of Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals. The conversation with Dr. Gumbs will be led by students from the Black and Latino Studies capstone course “Climate Justice is Racial Justice.” This event is presented by the Department of Black and Latino Studies, the Department of English via Globus Lectures, and the Dean’s Office at Baruch. Register HERE.
Spring Recess
4/15-4/22
Week 12
4/27
Asynchronous Screening:
Illegal Loggers: The Tribe Waging War in the Amazon (Vice News, 2015)
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Synchronous Screening and discussions:
The Amazon (Vox Atlas, 2019)
Part 1: https://youtu.be/SAZAKPUQMw0
Part 2: https://youtu.be/e1_4JseKlO4
Part 3: https://youtu.be/oGjRNbXeRXI
Week 13
5/4
Virtual Photography Exhibition:
I’m New Here: Black and Indigenous Media Ecologies
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Goffe, Tao Leigh, and Tatiana Esh. “I’m New Here: Black and Indigenous Media Ecologies: Curatorial Statement” https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5r76v48z 2021
*Last day to submit late assignments from the second half of the semester (Indigenous ecologies).*
Week 14
5/11
Review
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Conclusion
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Collective Evaluation
Final
5/18
Final Projects asynchronous submissions via email until 11:59 pm.
Final Grade Submission Deadline
5/27
