Course Welcome & Introductions

• Keating, Listening with Raw Openness

CH 1: INTRODUCTION 

• 1.1: Ethnic Studies is Home

• 1.2: Our Narratives

• 1.3: Chapter Summaries

• 1.4: Takeaway

Due Thu, 11:59 PM:

1. Syllabus Quiz 

2. Checkpoint 1 Solo Journal

• In-class presentation: Early Alert by Tina Iniguez

• Fam Bams: groups created at random for our full course of 50 students to ensure we are building spaces of critical learning in community. If this is not your thing, consider taking this course online in future terms.

• Immigration Story Mapping

POWER & 4 I'S OF OPPRESSION

• Sensoy & DiAngelo, Oppression and Power

• Young, Five Faces of Oppression 

• LEMSCC, 4 I's of Oppression

Due Thu, 11:59 PM:

• (If applicable, meet the drop deadline, 2/11/24, 10:00 pm.)

• 7.1: Introduction

• 7.2: Defining Whiteness and White Supremacy

• 7.3: Racism as Structural/Institutional

• 7.4: Structural/Institutional Legacies of Whiteness

• 7.5: Normalization of Whiteness

• 7.6: Summary/Review

Due Thu, 11:59 PM:

• PCAR 1

*In-class presentation: Umoja-AFFIRM by Zakia Houston

*** MON - No Class. Enjoy your holiday. ***

*** WED - No Class. Personal Online Study Day. ***

See Canvas announcements with instructions on your coursework for Wed, 2/21.

• 2.1: Introduction

• 2.2: Ethnic Studies Frameworks

• 2.3: Historical Roots of Ethnic Studies

• 2.4: The Beginning of Ethnic Studies

• 2.5: Growth and Expansion of Ethnic Studies

• 2.6: Summary/Review

• 2.7: References

• Quiz 1

• In-class presentation: Student Mental Health by McTate Stroman II

• White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack 

• Podcast: Microaggressions are a big deal: how to talk them out and when to walk away

• 8.1: Introduction

• 8.2: What is Intersectionality?

Due Thu, 11:59 PM:

• Checkpoint 2 Solo Journal 

• 8.3: Intersectionality and Third World Feminism

• 8.4: Intersectionality and Reproductive Justice - Part I

• 8.5: Intersectionality and Reproductive Justice - Part II

• 8.6: Transformational Liberation through Love

• 8.7: Summary/Review

Due Thu, 11:59 PM:

• PCAR 2

• 9.1: Introduction

• 9.2: Testimony as a Decolonial Methodology

• 9.3: Racial Wealth Disparities

• 9.4: Why is Wealth So Unequal in the U.S.?

• 9.5: Counternarratives in Racial Wealth Disparities

• 9.6: Summary/Review

Due Thursday, 11:59 PM:

1. Checkpoint 2 Journal 

2. Quiz 2

• 3.1: Introduction

• 3.2: Black Power and Black Studies

• 3.3: How We Got Here- Lifting “The Veil”

• 3.4: Systemic Racism

• 3.5: Cultural and Political Representation

• 3.6: Summary/Review

Due Thu, 11:59 PM:

• PCAR 3 

Relaaaaaxxx... rest and rejuvenate!

3/28 - Native American Day 

3/29 - Cesar Chavez Day

• 4.1: Introduction

• 4.2: Indigenous Ways of Knowing

• 4.3: Core Concepts and Theories

• 4.4: Invasion, Occupation, Imperialism and Hegemony

• 4.5: Perspectives and Future Directions

• 4.6: Summary/Review

*** Wednesday - No Class. Complete coursework remotely. ***

Due Thursday, 11:59 PM:

• Checkpoint 3 Journal

• 5.1: Introduction

• 5.2: Who are Asian Americans?

• 5.3: Immigration and Exclusion

• 5.4: Wars and Imperialism

• 5.5: Pacific Islander Studies

• 5.6: Summary/Review

• Introduction to Creative Research Final (Instructions)

• Begin brainstorming with Fam Bam

Due Thu, 11:59 PM:

• Checkpoint 3 Solo Journal

• 6.1: Introduction

• 6.2: Roots and Resistance- The Development of Chicanx and Latinx Studies

• 6.3: Contested and Competing Meanings in Chicanx and Latinx Studies

• 6.4: Racialization and Identity

• 6.5: Migration and Immigration

• 6.6: Special Topics in Chicanx and Latinx Studies

• 6.7: Summary/Review

• Begin planning with Fam Bam, and start creating.

Due Thu, 11:59 PM:

• PCAR 4 

• Invitation to submit Standpoint Paper outline

• 10.1: Introduction

• 10.2: The Prison Industrial Complex

• 10.3: War on Drugs and the Age of Mass Incarceration

• 10.4: Policing, Colonialism, and Slavery

• 10.5: Is Policing Inherently Racist?

• 10.6: School-to-Prison Pipeline

• 10.7: Alternative Solutions

• 10.8: Summary/Review

• Workshopping ideas for your Cultural Product 

• OPTIONAL: Sign up to discuss your developing ideas with me: 1:1 Check-In with Professor 

Due Thu, 11:59 PM:

• Checkpoint 4 Solo Journal

• (If applicable, meet the withdrawal deadline, 4/25/24.)

• 11.1: Introduction

• 11.2: Frameworks for Action

• 11.3: U.S. Civil Rights and Liberatory Movements

• 11.4: Labor Movements- Domestic Workers

• 11.5: Labor Movements- Agricultural Workers

• 11.6: Transnational Organizing in the Diaspora

• 11.7: Contemporary Environmental, Racial and Gender Justice Movements

• 11.8: Summary/Review

Due Thu, 11:59 PM:

• Checkpoint 4 Collective Daily Journal

• Fam bam final project previews at designated 10-min time slots. 

• Self-directed work on producing final project.

• OPTIONAL: Sign up to receive guidance on how to sharpen your developing piece. 1:1 Check-In with Professor 

Due Thu, 11:59 PM:

• Quiz 4

• Self-directed work on producing final project.

OPTIONAL:  Sign up to receive guidance on any last concerns around your Cultural Product and/or Final Paper. 1:1 Check-In with Professor

Presentations begin! 

Due Thu, 11:59 PM:

• Creative Research Cultural Product 

Presentations (party! 

• Self-directed work on finalizing Standpoint Paper.

OPTIONAL:  Sign up to receive guidance on any last concerns around your Cultural Product and/or Final Paper. 1:1 Check-In with Professor

Due Thu, 11:59 PM:

• Standpoint Paper