Ethnic Studies Initiative - Transformation, Hope, Action, and Change

Transformation, Hope, Action, and Change

Poster showing six Black and brown people painting an ornate, colorful, floral mural on a yellow wall. The mural features text that reads: "Our future deserves us." A little girl in a pink dress holds a cardboard sign that says "We Are Unstoppable."

Rommy Torico, "Creating Futures," Amplifier Art.

How can we visualize and create a caring and equitable future for everyone?

“Our charge is to make imagining liberation under oppression completely thinkable, to really push ourselves to think beyond the normal in order for us to be able to address the root causes of people’s suffering.”

- Mariame Kaba

How to use the lesson plans

Color photograph of a rural Minnesotan landscape. A green field extends from the picture's foreground into the background. A corn silo stands at the horizon line. The sky is gray-blue and cloudy.

Land Reclamation

Photograph by the photojouralist Gordon Parks, showing a Black man wearing a plaid shirt and lifting up a manhole cover. He is emerging up onto the street, with just his head and upper arm visible above the street. The photograph is called "Invisible Man."

Photojournalism and Protest

Global Protest Music

Art by Holly Young. The piece is called "Facebook Live," and shows a sketch of a Native woman in regalia holding a phone and livestreaming. Facebook emojis for "love," "like," "haha," and "wow" are scattered across the picture. The image is drawn directly on an archival ledger, tracing census data.

Global Arts and Expression

Advertisement for the abolitionist David Ruggles' bookstore. The visible text reads, "The Subscriber offers for sale, at the above Establishment, Anti-Slavery publications of every description, wholesale and retail. Also, School Books and Stationary; Prints, &c. cheap for cash. Letter press and Job Printing, Book Binding and Picture Framing, will be neatly executed. All orders will be thankfully received, and punctually attended to."

Abolitionism

Haitian Revolution

United Farm Workers

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