Week 1: Welcome to Latine/x Communities in the US
1/25
Introduction
Week 2: Latin American Migration to the US: An Historical Background
2/1
Asynchronous Screening:
Documentary:
Harvest of Empire (Eduardo Lopez and Peter Getzel, 2012)
+ Synchronous discussion in the classroom
Week 3: Cuban Communities
2/8
Asynchronous Screening:
Animated Film:
Chico y Rita (Javier Mariscal, Fernando Trueba, Tono Errando, 2011)
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Synchronous discussion in the classroom
Essay:
Moreno, Jairo. “Bauza-Gillespie-Latin Jazz: Difference, Modernity and the Black Caribbean.” The Afro-Latin@ Reader. Duke University Press, 2010
Class Presentations
Week 4
2/15
Short Story:
Obejas, Achy. “The Sound Catalog.” The Tower of the Antilles. Akashic Books, 2017.
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Essay:
Bustamante, Michael J. “Remembering—and Forgetting—the Cuban Revolution.” https://publicseminar.org/essays/remembering-and-forgetting-the-cuban-revolution/
Class Presentations
Week 5: Mexican, Central American, and Indigenous Communities
2/22
Essay:
Ramos, Paola. “A Journey from the West to the Southwest.” Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity. Vintage Books, 2020. (Pages 23-63)
Class Presentations
Week 6: Mexican, Central American, and Indigenous Communities
3/1
Essay:
Ramos, Paola. “A Journey from the West to the Southwest.” Finding Latinx: In Search of the Voices Redefining Latino Identity. Vintage Books, 2020. (Pages 64-99)
Class Presentations
Week 7: Garifuna Communities
3/8
Asynchronous Screening:
Short Documentary:
A Story of the Garifuna (Ben Petersen, 2013)
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Synchronous discussion in the classroom
Personal Essay:
Martinez, Janel. “Abuela’s Greatest Gift.” Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed. Flatiron Books, 2o21.
Class Presentations
Week 8: Midterm
3/15
Interview projects debrief session
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Submissions via email: [email protected]
Week 9: Puerto Rican Communities
3/22
Asynchronous Screening:
Documentary:
Yo Soy Boricua Pa’ Qué Tu Lo Sepas (Rosie Pérez, 2006)
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Synchronous discussion in the classroom
Essay:
Duany, Jorge. “Nation and Migration: Rethinking Puerto Rican Identity in a Transnational Context.” None of the Above Puerto Ricans in the Global Era. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Class Presentations
Week 10: Puerto Rican Communities
3/28 at 6:00 pm (Extra-credit opportunity)
A Conversation with Achy Obejas at Engelman Recital Hall, BPAC
3/29
Nuyorican Poetry (Selection)
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Essay:
González, Marcos. “The Obelisk of Loisaida.” https://www.thewhitereview.org/feature/the-obelisk-of-loisaida/
Class Presentations
3/30 BLS’ Afro- Latinidades 12:30PM-1:45PM, NVC 11-155
“Queer Afro-Latina History Through Comics: A Conversation with Sharon Lee De La Cruz”
Spring Recess
4/5-4/13
Week 11: Dominican Communities
4/19
Heredia, Alejandro. “Muchacho.” Kweli Journal. https://www.kwelijournal.org/fiction/2022/6/30/muchacho-by-alejandro-heredia
Class Presentations
*Grace period to complete late assignments start.
4/20
BLS’ Afro- Latinidades 1:00-2:00 pm
Antiblackness and its context in Urban Brazil
A conversation with Jaime Alves, author of The Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil, on anti-blackness in Brazil and the forms of resistance in the context of Brazil.
Host: Professor Tshombe Miles
Register https://baruch.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZErf-6rpj8vHdU0sgZKnc0rN360_1JC65El
4:00-6:30PM, Engelman Recital Hall
4:00-5:00PM: Afrolatinidades DJ set and Reception
5-6:30PM: Nuyorican Poetry Open Slam and Reading Event with Nuyorican Poet, Lois Griffin
Hosts: Professors Shirley Reynozo, Vallerie Matos, and Dasharah Green
Week 12: Dominican Communities
4/25
1-2:30PM, NVC3-165
Baruch College, 55 Lexington Avenue
Afrolatinidades Teach-In: “From La Sentencia to a Transnational Hispaniola”
Conversation with scholars-activists Ana María Belique (Frontline Defenders), Amarilys Estrella, and Jean Eddy Saint Paul on the crisis in which Dominicans of Haitian descent have been stripped of their citizenship and “repatriated” to Haiti.
Host: Professor Albert Garcia
4/26
12:50 pm A17 Lex 1000 H (Extra-Credit)
Performance
Ceballos, Helen. “Rito de paso/ Rite of Passage”
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2:30 pm
Essay:
Ceballos, Helen. “Cerezas por papeles”
Class Presentations
Week 13: Dominican Communities
5/3
Asynchronous Screening:
Film:
Raising Victor Vargas (Peter Sollett, 2002)
https://tubitv.com/movies/453788/raising-victor-vargas
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Synchronous discussion in the classroom
Class Presentations
*Grace period to submit late assignments ends.
Week 14
5/10
Conclusion
Final
The final project and self-evaluation are due by 5/17, 11:59 pm via email.
Final Grade Submission Deadline
5/26