Calendar
Welcome to Latinx Screens
Week 1
8/31 Synchronous zoom session
Course introduction
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Mise-en-scene crash course
9/7 No classes scheduled
Recommended Event
9/9 Black and Latino Studies Department Open House 1:00 pm
Meeting ID: 849 5519 6946
Passcode: BLS2021
New York as a Puerto Rican, Dominican, Haitian, Afro-diasporic city
Week 2
Asynchronous screening and blog post
Decade of Fire (Gretchen Hildebran and Vivian Vásquez, 2018)
9/14 Synchronous zoom Session
Chang, Jeff. “Necropolis: The Bronx and the Politics of Abandonment.” Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip Hop Generation. Picador, 2005.
Recommended Event:
Extra-credit opportunity with 300-word reflection:
“Latina, Latino, Latinx: What’s in a name?” Round Table 6:00 pm
Meeting ID: 818 9686 9208
Passcode: BLS2021
Week 3
Asynchronous screening and blog post
The Get Down Episode One: “Where There Is Ruin, There Is Hope for a Treasure” (Baz Luhrman and Stephen Adly Guirgis, 2016)
9/21 Synchronous zoom Session
Rivera, Raquel Z. “Between Blackness and Latinidad in the Hip Hop Zone.” A Companion to Latina/o Studies. Blackwell Publishing, 2007.
Oral/slide presentations
Week 4
Asynchronous screening and blog post
Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child (Tamra Davis, 2010)
9/28 Synchronous zoom Session
Negrón-Muntaner, Frances. “The Writing on the Wall: The Life and Passion of Jean-Michel Basquiat.” Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the Latinization of American Culture. New York University Press, 2004.
Oral/slide presentations
Week 5
Asynchronous screening and blog post
Gun Hill Road (Rashaad Ernesto Green, 2011)
10/5 Synchronous zoom Session
Cruz, Cindy. “When Does Resistance Begin? Queer Immigrant and U.S.-Born Latino Youth, Identity and the Infrapolitics of the Street.”
Oral/slide presentations
Week 6
Asynchronous screening and blog post
Vampires Vs. The Bronx (Osmany Rodriguez, 2020)
10/12 In-person session (Room A-17 Lex 1000 H)
Morales, Ed. “The Latinx Urban Space and Identity.” Latinx The New Force in American Politics and Culture. Verso, 2018.
Oral/slide presentations
Week 7
10/19 In-person session (Room A-17 Lex 1000 H)
Music-video festival (Session 1)
10/21
Recommended events:
10/21
1:00 pm Fringe Boricua Filmmaking in NYC: Reimagining the Queer Archive
6:00 pm Reading Convo with Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Week 8
10/26 Asynchronous
The midterm project is due.
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Self-reflection
Northbound: Central American migrations
Week 9
Asynchronous Screening and blog post
Sin nombre (Cary Joji Fukunaga, 2009)
11/2 Synchronous zoom Session
Luiselli, Valeria. “Court.” Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions. Coffee House Press, 2017.
Oral/slide presentations
Week 10
Asynchronous Screening and blog post
Clínica de Migrantes (Maxim Pozdorovkin, 2016)
11/9 In-person session (Room A-17 Lex 1000 H)
Cornejo Villavicencio, Karla. “Ground Zero.” The Undocumented Americans. One World, 2020.
Oral/slide presentations
Extra-credit opportunity with 300-word reflection:
Latinx Visions Podcast, Episode on Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, and creative non-fiction
Chicanas in the Southwest
Week 11
Asynchronous screening and blog post
Selena (Gregory Nava, 1997)
11/16 Synchronous zoom session
Paredez, Deborah. “Remembering Selena, Re-Membering ‘Latinidad’.” Jstor.org. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25069021
Oral/slide presentations
Week 12
Asynchronous screening and blog post
Mosquita y Mari (Aurora Guerrero, 2012)
11/23 Synchronous zoom Session
Moraga, Cherríe. “La Güera.” This Bridge Called My Back. SUNY Press, 2015.
Oral/slide presentations
Extra-credit opportunity with 300-word reflection:
Latinx Visions Podcast, Episode on Mosquita y Mari and Chicana feminism
Week 13
11/30 In-person session (Room A-17 Lex 1000 H)
Music video festival (Session 2)
Extra-credit Opportunity (just for attending)
Wednesday 12/1 at 6:00 pm
TLH Panel: Imperialism, Education, and Resistance: Experiences from Puerto Rico, The Philippines, and The Dominican Republic
Eventbrite registration link coming soon!
Week 14
12/7 In-person session (Room A-17 Lex 1000 H)
Music video festival (Session 3)
Wrapping-up
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Collective final reflections
Final Project
12/21 until 11:59 pm via email.
Please send your project as a Word, Goggle, or Pages document; as an audio file, or send your social media link(s).
Final Grade Submission Deadline
12/27
