Week 1 Welcome to “Latinx Film and Media”
1/29
Introduction
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Mise-en-scene crash course
1/31
Aguilar, Carlos. “Latino Movies: 20 Essential Films Since 2000.” https://www.nytimes.com/article/latino-movies.html
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Exposito, Suzy. “Diaspora Baby: What Makes Latinos so Hard to Define.” https://www.latimes.com/delos/story/2023-07-09/latinos-marketing-the-200-percent
+ In-class screening: Alternatino (Arturo Castro, 2019) Selected Sketches
Week 2 Necro-política: Archives of Neglect and Activism
2/5 Asynchronous screening
Decade of Fire (Gretchen Hildebran and Vivian Vásquez, 2018)
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.
2/7 Synchronous screening
La operación (Ana María García, 1982)
Week 3 Necro política: Archives of Neglect and Activism +Creative Group Session
2/14
La operación (Ana María García, 1982)
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Creative group workshop
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Del Rosario De Regino,Ethan Valentino
Group 4
Group 5
Group 6
Group 7
Group 8
Week 4 Afro-Caribbean Soundscapes
2/21 In-class Screening
From Mambo to Hip Hop: A South Bronx Tale (Henry Chalfant, 2006)
2/22 Discussion
From Mambo to Hip Hop: A South Bronx Tale (Henry Chalfant, 2006)
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Rivera, Raquel Z. “Between Blackness and Latinidad in the Hip Hop Zone.” A Companion to Latina/o Studies. Blackwell Publishing, 2007.
Presentation(s)
Week 5 Puerto (Diaspo) Rican Stardom
2/26 Asynchronous Screening
El Cantante (Leon Ichaso, 2006)
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Valentín-Escobar, Wilson. “Nothing Connects Us All but Imagined Sounds: Performing Trans-Boricua Memories, Identities, and Nationalisms Through the Death of Héctor Lavoe.” Mambo Montage: The Latinization of New York. Columbia University Press, 2001. (Pages 207-215)
Presentation(s)
2/28
El Cantante (Leon Ichaso, 2006)
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Valentín-Escobar, Wilson. “Nothing Connects Us All but Imagined Sounds: Performing Trans-Boricua Memories, Identities, and Nationalisms Through the Death of Héctor Lavoe.” Mambo Montage: The Latinization of New York. Columbia University Press, 2001. (Pages 215-225)
Presentation(s)
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Creative Group Workshop: the proposal
Week 6 The Criminalization of Black, Latinx Youth
3/4 In-class screening
When They See Us: Part 1 (Ava DuVernay, 2019)
3/6 Asynchronous Screening
When They See Us: Part 2 (Ava DuVernay, 2019)
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Rios, Victor. “The Labeling Type: Coming of Age in the Age of Mass Incarceration.” Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys. New York University Press, 2011.
Presentation(s)
Week 7 Surviving the Prison Industrial Complex
3/11 In-class Screening
When They See Us: Part 3 (Ava DuVernay, 2019)
3/13
Asynchronous Screening
When They See Us: Part 4 (Ava DuVernay, 2019)
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Davis, Angela. “The Prison Industrial Complex.” The Meaning of Freedom. City Lights Book, 2012.
Presentation(s)
Week 8 Midterms
3/18
Exam
3/20
Self-care discussion + Conversation on proposals
*Please submit your group’s proposal by 11:59 pm by email as a Word, Google, or Pages document.* Email: rojo.roblesmejias@baruch.cuny.edu
Week 9 Afro-Caribbean-Latinx Arts
3/25 Asynchronous Screening
Basquiat (Julian Schnabel, 1996) https://youtu.be/dS7hlUk9hSg?si=prPADm3uwBhXvgIh
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Negrón Muntaner-Frances and Yasmin Ramirez. “King of the Line: The Sovereign Acts of Jean-Michel Basquiat.” Sovereign Acts: Contesting Colonialism Across Indigenous Nations and Latinx America. University of Arizona Press, 2017.
Presentation(s)
3/27
Basquiat (Julian Schnabel, 1996) https://youtu.be/dS7hlUk9hSg?si=prPADm3uwBhXvgIh
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Negrón Muntaner-Frances and Yasmin Ramirez. “King of the Line: The Sovereign Acts of Jean-Michel Basquiat.” Sovereign Acts: Contesting Colonialism Across Indigenous Nations and Latinx America. University of Arizona Press, 2017.
Presentation(s)
Week 10 Violence, Migration, and Music Culture
4/1 Asynchronous Screening
I’m No longer Here (Fernando Frías, 2020)
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Ragland, Cathy. “Mexican Deejays and the Transnational Space of Youth Dances in New York and New Jersey.” Ethnomusicology, Autumn, 2003, Vol. 47, No. 3 (Autumn, 2003), pp. 338-354.
Presentation(s)
4/3
I’m No longer Here (Fernando Frías, 2020)
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Ragland, Cathy. “Mexican Deejays and the Transnational Space of Youth Dances in New York and New Jersey.” Ethnomusicology, Autumn, 2003, Vol. 47, No. 3 (Autumn, 2003), pp. 338-354.
Presentation(s)
Week 11 Living Undocumented and Trans Activism
4/8 Asynchronous Screening
The Garden Left Behind (Flavio Alves, 2019) https://tubitv.com/movies/583308/the-garden-left-behind?start=true&tracking=google-feed&utm_source=google-feed
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Spade, David. “Queer and Trans Liberation Requires Abolition.” Abolition For the People. Haymarket Books, 2021.
Presentation(s)
4/10
The Garden Left Behind (Flavio Alves, 2019) https://tubitv.com/movies/583308/the-garden-left-behind?start=true&tracking=google-feed&utm_source=google-feed
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Spade, David. “Queer and Trans Liberation Requires Abolition.” Abolition For the People. Haymarket Books, 2021.
Week 12 Food Industries + Exam
4/15 Synchronous Screening
Gentefied: “The Grapevine” (Marvin Lemus and Linda Yvette Chávez 2020-2021)
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Extra-credit Event
Black Studies Colloquium presents:
Conor Tomás Reed’s New York Liberation School: Lecture and Conversation
5:30 pm Room 14-266
4/17
Exam
Spring Recess
22–30
Week 13 Community Self-Documentation
5/1
Mochkofsky, Gabriela. “How Does New York City’s Latinx Community See Itself?” https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/how-does-new-york-citys-latinx-community-see-itself
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Instagram Accounts:
Nuevayorkinos
Veteranas y Rucas
Maximo Colon
Rollie 6×6
Jamel Shabazz
Extra-credit events
5/2
5/5
Week 14 Black, Indigenous, and Latinx Ecologies
5/6
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
Presentation(s)
Del Rosario De Regino,Ethan Valentino
5/8
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
Presentation (s)
Week 15 Reporting on and Finalizing our Projects
5/13
Final project fair
Round 1
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Del Rosario De Regino,Ethan Valentino
Group 4
Round 2
Group 5
Group 6
Group 7
Group 8
5/15
Asynchronous workshop
Final project submission deadline
5/20 by 11:59 pm via email.
Final grade submission deadline
5/28