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What do we read?
What do we read?
In our class you will have assigned readings, videos, and podcasts on Canvas. There is no textbook to purchase for this course but instead you will have specific materials that are accessible all on Canvas for each week.
Weekly Schedule
Weekly Schedule
Week 1: Introduction to the Course and Collective Learning
Week 1: Introduction to the Course and Collective Learning
February 13th -19th
· Review of Syllabus
Week 2: Media Literacy and Introducing Ethnic Studies
Week 2: Media Literacy and Introducing Ethnic Studies
February 20th – 26th
Ron Espiritu, “Why Ethnic Studies Matters”
Jared Ball, “How Do I Do Critical Media Literacy?”
Week 3: Colonialism, Chattel Slavery, Race Making, and the Invention of Whiteness
Week 3: Colonialism, Chattel Slavery, Race Making, and the Invention of Whiteness
February 27th – March 5th
Michael Omi and Howard Winant, eds., Racial Formation in the United States, Second Edition, pp. 3-13.
PBS Documentary, "Race"
Pamela Perry, "White" Keywords for American Cultural Studies
Week 4:Race, Gender, and Third World Feminisms
Week 4:Race, Gender, and Third World Feminisms
March 6th – 12th
Andrea Smith, "Heteropatriarchy and the Three Pillars of White Supremacy" Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology (Durham, Duke University Press, 2016)
Combahee River Collective - A Feminist Statement
Week 5: Settler Colonialism and Fighting Native Erasure
Week 5: Settler Colonialism and Fighting Native Erasure
March 13th – 19th
Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy, "On telling Native people to just "get over it" or why I teach about the Walking Dead in my Native Studies classes”
Red Nation Podcast "Destroying the Pilgrim mythology" Dr. Nick Estes, Mahtowin Munro, and Kimimila Sa (Kisha) James
Week 6: The Black Radical Tradition and Ending Antiblack Racism
Week 6: The Black Radical Tradition and Ending Antiblack Racism
March 20th - 26th
Sonya Winton, "Concerned Citizens: Environmental (In)Justice in Black Los Angeles"
YouTube, “The Empire Files: Black Radical Tradition with Cornel West, Mumia Abu-Jamal”
Week 7: Latinidades and Colonialism: Mexican, Central American, and Puerto Rican Histories with U.S. Empire
Week 7: Latinidades and Colonialism: Mexican, Central American, and Puerto Rican Histories with U.S. Empire
March 27th - April 2nd
Reginald Horsman, "Race, Expansion, and the Mexican War," Race and Manifest Destiny: The Origins of American Racial Anglo-Saxonism, Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1981
Podcast "What's Wrong with the Signs that Say Latinx for Black Lives"
Week 8: Midterm
Week 8: Midterm
SPRING BREAK April 8th-14th
SPRING BREAK April 8th-14th
Week 9: Asian and Pacific Islander Experiences with U.S. Empire and Xenophobia
Week 9: Asian and Pacific Islander Experiences with U.S. Empire and Xenophobia
April 17th – 23rd
YouTube Video: Red Nation Podacast: In Memory of Haunani-Kay Trask
Mae Ngai, "Racism Has Always Been Part of the Asian American Experience" The Atlantic
Adalberto Aguirre, Jr., and Shoon Lio “Spaces of Mobilization: The Asian American/Pacific Islander Struggle for Social Justice”
Week 10: Civil Rights and the Limits of Inclusion under Racial Capitalism
Week 10: Civil Rights and the Limits of Inclusion under Racial Capitalism
April 24th – 30th
Eric Avila, "Chapter 2: The Nation's 'White Spot': Racializing Postwar Los Angeles" **Pgs 20-49 Only
George Lipsitz, "Possessive Investments in Whiteness"
Week 11: Self Determination and the Impacts of Internal Colonialism
Week 11: Self Determination and the Impacts of Internal Colonialism
May 1st – 7th
Charisse Burden-Stelly, "Radical Black Peace Activism in the Black Liberation Movement"
Frantz Fanon "On Violence" Wretched of the Earth P35-50 Only
Week 12: Prisons, Policing, and the Role of the Criminal Injustice System on Communities of Color
Week 12: Prisons, Policing, and the Role of the Criminal Injustice System on Communities of Color
May 8th – 14th
Angela Davis, "Ch. 2 Slavery, Civil Rights, and Abolition" Are Prisons Obsolete
YouTube Video “Bastards of the Party” Film
The War on Drugs Comic
Week 13: No Human is Illegal: Borders and Settler Citizenship
Week 13: No Human is Illegal: Borders and Settler Citizenship
May 15th - 21st
Leo Chavez Ch.1 "Latino Threat Narrative"
YouTube Video Democracy Now: “People Are Desperate”: Biden Vows Mass Deportations as 1000s of Haitian Refugees Shelter in Del Rio" Sept. 20, 2021
Week 14: Education And Liberation
Week 14: Education And Liberation
May 22nd-28th
Mary Dudziak "Desegregation as a Cold War Imperative" Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge 3rd Ed. (2013)
Fernando Echeveria, "Ethnic Studies Faces Threats Again in Arizona. That Won’t Deter the Woman Who Helped Create It." Mother Jones, Nov 7th 2022.
Week 15: Pan Africanism, Pan Latinidad, and Building the 4th World Internationalism
Week 15: Pan Africanism, Pan Latinidad, and Building the 4th World Internationalism
May 29th - June 4th
Hector Perla Jr., "Monseñor Romero’s Resurrection: Transnational Salvadoran Organizing"
YouTube “What is Pan-Africanism”
Week 16 Final Exam Review
Week 16 Final Exam Review
June 5th – 8th
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