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PRLS 2250 Digital Life Stories: Chicana & Latina Testimonio
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3 hours; 3 credits. Latina feminist tradition of testimonios, autobiographical narratives, short-stories, poems, and oral histories to reveal the complexity of Chicana/Latina identity. The connection between life experience and new knowledge creation. Theorize Latinidades at the intersection of racism, sexism and heterosexism. Re-think feminism, women and gender studies; Latin@, American and cultural studies. Students will create their own digital life stories. This course is the same as Women’s and Gender Studies 3152 and American Studies 3310.

Subject:
Ethnic Studies
Social Science
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Bibliography
Reading
Syllabus
Provider:
CUNY
Provider Set:
Brooklyn College
Author:
Colin McDonald
Laura Pavon Aramburu
Date Added:
04/06/2021
PRLS 2505: Latinxs in the Criminal Justice Complex
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This is an inter and trans-disciplinary course, which has two main objectives. The first is to serve as an introduction into the current realities and challenges of the LatinX community within the criminal justice complex in the United States. The course seeks to critically examine the misconceptions and realities of the LatinX community within the larger discussion of mass incarceration and prison reform in the United States. Close attention will also be paid to the use of criminalization as a form of social control and the proliferation of regulations, ordinances, and legislative acts that give legal form to such methods of discipline and punishment. The course will address dynamics and phenomena of racial profiling; juvenile justice; drug criminalization; and the intersection of immigration law with criminal law. In concluding, the course will shift to understanding and connecting the prison-industrial complex to what the future holds for marginalized communities within the current movement and crisis of global capital.

The course also seeks to improve your skills in critical reading, writing, and thinking. Paper assignments and essay exams will provide opportunities to develop your own interpretations systematically and polish your writing skills.

While there undoubtedly exists an infinite research agenda when it comes to the study mass incarceration and the ongoing challenges of the LatinX community within the criminal justice system of the United States, it is only possible [in 15 weeks] to cover a limited surface/amount of such complicated history and realities of these topics. However, I have provided a list of suggested/recommended readings for additional literature to be consulted.

Subject:
Criminal Justice
Ethnic Studies
Social Science
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Diagram/Illustration
Reading
Syllabus
Provider:
CUNY
Provider Set:
Brooklyn College
Author:
Amy Wolfe
Reynaldo Ortiz-Minaya
Date Added:
03/11/2021
PRLS 2505: Latinxs in the Criminal Justice Complex (Aja)
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This is an inter and trans-disciplinary course, which has two main objectives. The first is to serve as an introduction into the current realities and challenges of the LatinX community within the criminal justice complex in the United States. The course seeks to critically examine the misconceptions and realities of the LatinX community within the larger discussion of mass incarceration and prison reform in the United States. Close attention will also be paid to the use of criminalization as a form of social control and the proliferation of regulations, ordinances, and legislative acts that give legal form to such methods of discipline and punishment. The course will address dynamics and phenomena of racial profiling; juvenile justice; drug criminalization; and the intersection of immigration law with criminal law. In concluding, the course will shift to understanding and connecting the prison-industrial complex to what the future holds for marginalized communities within the current movement and crisis of global capital.

The course also seeks to improve your skills in critical reading, writing, and thinking. Paper assignments will provide opportunities to develop your own interpretations systematically and polish your writing skills.

While there undoubtedly exists an infinite research agenda when it comes to the study mass incarceration and the ongoing challenges of the LatinX community within the criminal justice system of the United States, it is only possible [in 15 weeks] to cover a limited surface/amount of such complicated history and realities of these topics. However, provided is a list of suggested/recommended readings for additional literature to be consulted.

Subject:
Criminal Justice
Ethnic Studies
Social Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Bibliography
Reading
Provider:
CUNY
Provider Set:
Brooklyn College
Author:
Alan Aja
Amy Wolfe
Date Added:
03/08/2021
PRLS 3325 Institutions of Urban Life & the Latinx Experience, 1848-2018
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This is an inter and trans-disciplinary course which has two main objectives. The first is to critically examine the multi-faceted evolution of the Latinx population as an urbanized segment of United States society. Specifically, the course seeks to provide a cross-cultural understanding of the diversity among Spanish-speaking people within the urban context. Different processes and roles over space and time will be problematized included but not limited to the role of urban institutions in the conflicts between assimilation and cultural preservation; the dynamics of migration, immigration, and settlement; and institutionalized participation in the social processes of United States urban life.

U.S. society today is in the middle of facing heightened social transformation in the early 21st Century. Since the inception of well over 150 years of Spanish presence in the United States, structures of inequality, oppression, and fusion remain in place. However, these structures—and challenges against them—are indeed changing along with the identity of what is “Urban” life and what roles Latinxs play in such formation.

Furthermore, as diverse social forces struggle over the terms of development and direction of change, the current state of affairs of Latinxs in the U.S. is full of rising social conflict, political mobilization, renewed revolutionary movements, further economic restructuring, transnational migration, and cultural redefinition. These are some of the aspects/dynamics that will be investigated throughout the course.

However, it is only possible [in 15 weeks] to cover a limited surface/amount of the complicated and rich history and multiple research agendas on the complex relationship between the making of urban life in the U.S. and the role of Latinxs within such historical formation.

The second goal is to improve your skills in critical reading and writing. You will work on understanding and interpreting the materials throughout the course. Paper assignments and essay exams will provide opportunities to develop your OWN interpretations systematically and polish your writing skills.

Subject:
Ethnic Studies
Social Science
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Reading
Syllabus
Provider:
CUNY
Provider Set:
Brooklyn College
Author:
Amy Wolfe
Reynaldo Ortiz-Minaya
Date Added:
03/05/2020
PRLS 3340: Critical Research Methods in Puerto Rican & LatinX Studies
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Examine critical research issues in Puerto Rican and Latinx studies. Introduce students to a variety of ways of thinking about “knowledge" and to specific ways of knowing and making arguments in Puerto Rican and Latinx studies using key humanistic, social science, and "interdisciplinary methodologies."

How do we study U.S. Latino and Caribbean populations and cultures? Some read literature, watch a film, read a history book… and others conduct interviews, do field work to identify and describe social and cultural practices, or collect oral histories and traditions. Are you interested in learning how to use different sources and methods to learn more about ethnic communities in the United States? What is the contribution of ethnic studies to our knowledge about migrant and underrepresented populations and their cultural manifestations? This class is a basic introduction to cultural and social science research methods with a focus on Caribbean and Latino Studies. Course includes library workshops, and class visits by professors and students who will discuss how they use different methods in their research and teaching.

Furthermore, the course will introduce you to the research process, including how researchers select topics, formulate research questions, design research, and analyze and interpret data. It will explore differences in how these issues present themselves and are addressed in designs that are quantitative, qualitative or both.

Subject:
Ethnic Studies
Social Science
Material Type:
Bibliography
Reading
Provider:
CUNY
Provider Set:
Brooklyn College
Author:
Amy Wolfe
Reynaldo Ortiz-Minaya
Date Added:
03/08/2021
PRLS 4510 Emerging Realities and Alternatives for Puerto Ricans and Other Latinxs in the U.S
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Impact of Latin@ demographic, political, and cultural trends. Education, economic disparities, political empowerment, and on-going challenges to Latin@s. Identity, citizenship, cultural production, Latinidad, and Latinization.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Ethnic Studies
History
Social Science
Sociology
U.S. History
World Cultures
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Reading
Syllabus
Provider:
CUNY
Provider Set:
Brooklyn College
Author:
Amy Wolfe
Reynaldo Ortiz-Minaya
Date Added:
03/28/2019
PRLS 5710 Research Seminar in Puerto Rican & LatinX Studies
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This is an advanced inter and trans-disciplinary course which has two main objectives. The first is to demonstrate applied research and methodology, through social-historical analysis, to pressing and relevant phenomena of inquiry in Puerto Rican and LatinX Studies. The course is heavily focused on examining pertinent issues as it exists within Puerto Rican and LatinX communities in the United States and in Puerto Rico. Students will engage critical and contextualized analyses within the multi-faceted realities of LatinX population in the United States. The course also seeks to demonstrate the cross-analytical understanding of the various frameworks that can be employed to conduct social analysis (i.e.,, literary, social-historical, and cultural) although the central lens of the course is its social-historical variant.

Subject:
Ethnic Studies
History
Social Science
Sociology
U.S. History
Material Type:
Diagram/Illustration
Reading
Syllabus
Unit of Study
Provider:
CUNY
Provider Set:
Brooklyn College
Author:
Amy Wolfe
Reynaldo Ortiz-Minaya
Date Added:
03/07/2021
Passing: Flexibility in Race and Gender, Spring 2009
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This course is primarily a literature seminar. We will use American literature as a lens through which to examine different passing tropes. It will provide an introduction to queer, gender, and critical race theories for science and math majors. We will read such works as Running A Thousand Miles for Freedom, Incognegro, and Focault's A History of Sexuality, to name just a few.

Subject:
Ethnic Studies
Social Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
M.I.T.
Provider Set:
M.I.T. OpenCourseWare
Author:
Dillon, Rachel Elizabeth
Date Added:
01/01/2009
A People's History of New York City
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A People’s History of New York City traces the history of NYC through the experiences of Immigrant and Migrant communities. By tracing common threads between these groups the City’s modern relevance, as well as its present tensions is unveiled. Highlighted are economic and social struggles for equity, justice and liberation from the marginalized groups who allowed for the creation of arguably the most significant metropolis of the present era.

Subject:
Ethnic Studies
History
Social Science
U.S. History
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
CUNY
Provider Set:
Guttman Community College
Author:
Samuel Finesurry
Date Added:
01/08/2022
The Places of Migration in United States History, Fall 2006
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Examines the history of the United States as a "nation of immigrants" within a broader global context. Considers migration from the mid-19th century to the present through case studies of such places as New York's Lower East Side, South Texas, Florida, and San Francisco's Chinatown. Examines the role of memory, media, and popular culture in shaping ideas about migration. Includes optional field trip to New York City.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Ethnic Studies
History
Social Science
U.S. History
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
M.I.T.
Provider Set:
M.I.T. OpenCourseWare
Author:
Capozzola
Christopher
Date Added:
01/01/2006
Race, Immigration, and Planning, Spring 2005
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This course provides an introduction to the issues of immigrants, planning, and race. It identifies the complexities and identities of immigrant populations emerging in the United States context and how different community groups negotiate that complexity. It explores the critical differences and commonalities between immigrant and non-immigrant communities, as well as how the planning profession does and should respond to those differences. Finally, the course explores the intersection of immigrant communities' formation and their interactions with African Americans and the idea of race in the United States.

Subject:
Ethnic Studies
Social Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
M.I.T.
Provider Set:
M.I.T. OpenCourseWare
Author:
J. Phillip
Thompson
Date Added:
01/01/2005
SPCL 7922T Multicultural Counseling
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This course equips students with the clinical skills necessary for pupil personnel service providers to work effectively with multilingual and culturally diverse populations. This experience-based course will develop an awareness of cultural, linguistic, and ethnic factors that influence and shape behavior and development. Personal history, literature, and films will be analyzed in the contexts of acculturation and identity. Current research and theoretical and applied knowledge in this field will be reviewed. Students will integrate theoretical and applied knowledge in written assignments and presentations.

Subject:
Ethnic Studies
Psychology
Social Science
Material Type:
Bibliography
Diagram/Illustration
Interactive
Lecture Notes
Provider:
CUNY
Provider Set:
Brooklyn College
Author:
Amy Wolfe
Sarah Baquet
Date Added:
12/14/2021
Sample Assignment: Science Fiction Social Justice Story
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This assignment is inspired by the learnings that arose from the workshop, “Fostering Play in the Classroom - Pedagogies to Build Creativity, Connection and Light to Oppressive Spaces”. Based on group dialogue, feedback, and the desire to build on pedagogies of play in the workshop, this science fiction short story assignment has been created as an additional layer of liberatory, contemplative learning for students that can be used/tweaked to work in a variety of courses. Powerful conversations arose in the workshop surrounding power/oppression, positionality and how this impacts our ability to engage in play, and the importance of holding both/and (i.e. - joy/sadness, pain/pleasure, restriction/liberation). This assignment attempts to deepen these reflections through creativity, storytelling, and removal of limits for dreaming in a world with obstacles. 

Subject:
Applied Science
Art History
Arts and Humanities
Business and Communication
Career and Technical Education
Communication
Composition and Rhetoric
Education
English Language Arts
Environmental Science
Environmental Studies
Ethnic Studies
Film and Music Production
Graphic Arts
Graphic Design
Health, Medicine and Nursing
Higher Education
History
Information Science
Journalism
Languages
Law
Life Science
Linguistics
Literature
Performing Arts
Philosophy
Physical Science
Political Science
Psychology
Public Relations
Reading Foundation Skills
Reading Literature
Religious Studies
Social Science
Social Work
Sociology
Speaking and Listening
Technology
Visual Arts
World Cultures
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Homework/Assignment
Interactive
Lesson
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Author:
Christina Katopodis
Date Added:
04/27/2021
Sample Assignment and Blog on Africana Women Leaders through COVID
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This assignment was created by Professor Bertrade Ngo-Ngijol Banoum, Ph.D., who is Chair of the Department of Africana Studies at Lehman College. The blog that follows is by Mariama Khan, and also can be found here.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Ethnic Studies
Sociology
Women's Studies
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Full Course
Homework/Assignment
Lesson
Module
Teaching/Learning Strategy
Unit of Study
Author:
Christina Katopodis
Date Added:
04/27/2021
Seminar in Current Community Problems
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The course relies on various theories and methods in the social sciences to analyze the challenges of the Black community. Attempts are also made to explore solutions to the problems. The focus and emphasis of the course, however, is to identify issues in the community that facilitate socioeconomic empowerment of Black people. Furthermore, institutions such as the family, marriage, and the church are analyzed throughout the semester.

Subject:
Ethnic Studies
Social Science
Sociology
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
CUNY
Provider Set:
New York City College of Technology
Author:
Dionne Bennett
Date Added:
12/10/2018
Studies in Fiction: Rethinking the American Masterpiece, Fall 2007
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Intensive study of a range of texts by a single author or by a limited group of authors whose achievements are mutually illuminating. Some attention to narrative theory, and biographical and cultural backgrounds. Instruction and practice in oral and written communication. Topic: Joyce's Ulysses and Its Legacy.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Ethnic Studies
Social Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
M.I.T.
Provider Set:
M.I.T. OpenCourseWare
Author:
Kelley, Wyn
Date Added:
01/01/2007
Studies in Fiction: Stowe, Twain, and the Transformation of 19th-Century America, Fall 2004
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Intensive study of a range of texts by a single author or by a limited group of authors whose achievements are mutually illuminating. Some attention to narrative theory, and biographical and cultural backgrounds. Instruction and practice in oral and written communication. Topic: Joyce's Ulysses and Its Legacy. This seminar looks at two bestselling nineteenth-century American authors whose works made the subject of slavery popular among mainstream readers. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain have subsequently become canonized and reviled, embraced and banned by individuals and groups at both ends of the political and cultural spectrum and everywhere in between.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Ethnic Studies
Literature
Social Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
M.I.T.
Provider Set:
M.I.T. OpenCourseWare
Author:
Kelley, Wyn
Date Added:
01/01/2004
Theater and Cultural Diversity in the U.S., Spring 2008
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A study of contemporary North American theater movements and selected individual works that are organized around issues of ethnic and socio-cultural identity. Class lectures and discussions analyze samples of African-American, Chicano, Asian-American, Puerto Rican and Native American theater taking into consideration their historical and political context. Performance exercises help students identify the theatrical context and theatrical forms and techniques used by these theaters.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Ethnic Studies
Social Science
Material Type:
Full Course
Provider:
M.I.T.
Provider Set:
M.I.T. OpenCourseWare
Author:
DeFrantz, Thomas
Date Added:
01/01/2008
Toni Cade Bambara Playlist by Sonia Adams
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This playlist and handout include works by (and various quotations and media related to) Toni Cade Bambara.

Subject:
Arts and Humanities
Composition and Rhetoric
Criminal Justice
Education
Elementary Education
English Language Arts
Ethnic Studies
Higher Education
Language Education (ESL)
Literature
Political Science
Reading Literature
Social Work
Sociology
Speaking and Listening
Special Education
Women's Studies
Material Type:
Bibliography
Author:
Christina Katopodis
Date Added:
03/09/2021
Voices from the Heart of Gotham: Guttman Community College
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As producers of knowledge with a particular focus on social (in)justice, racial, gendered and transnational journeys, Guttman Community College scholar-activists have constructed a new digital canon that offers New Yorkers the opportunity to contribute testimonies of tumultuous times. Curated by Dr. Samuel Finesurrey, Guttman undergraduates Elsy Rosario, Tigida Fadiga, Luz Hidalgo, Phisarys Sidemion, and Sadaf Majeed and digitized by Guttman staff members Joanna Wisniewski, Ivan Mora, and Kristina Jiana Quiles, this collection democratizes the production of knowledge by empowering community college students, largely deriving from immigrant households, to shape the narratives told about their communities and their generation. Organized into five themes, with testimonies gathered in six languages, this archive documents a diverse set of New York experiences. Funded by the American Council of Learned Societies and the Mellon Foundation, this exhibition helps us rethink struggles and movements of the past and present, to unearth the human networks that carry all New Yorkers in difficult times.

Subject:
Ethnic Studies
History
Social Science
Material Type:
Data Set
Primary Source
Provider:
CUNY
Provider Set:
Guttman Community College
Author:
Guttman undergraduates Elsy Rosario
Ivan Mora
Joanna Wisniewski
Luz Hidalgo
Phisarys Sidemion
Sadaf Majeed
Samuel Finesurrey
Tigida Fadiga
Date Added:
01/08/2022