Readings / Schedule
August 25 Week 1
To do before next class: Exercise: Free write about what you want from this course and research experience – bringing light to family history, historicizing their experience, community work, social justice, learning how to do research, etc.
September 1 Week 2
Read before class:
- Juana María Rodríguez, “Latino/a/x” from Keywords in American Cultural Studies. (password-protected PDF)
- Schrrón del Río, María and Alan Aja. “The Case for ‘Latinx’: Why Intersectionality Is Not a Choice.” Latino Rebels. December 5, 2015.
- “About One-in-Four U.S. Hispanics Have Heard of Latinx, but Just 3% Use It”, Pew Research Center, August 11, 2020.
- UCLA Latino Politics and Policy Institute, “A Mosiac, not a Monolith: A Profile of the U.S. Latino Population, 2000-2020”
- Marrow, Helen. “To be or not to be (Hispanic or Latino) Brazilian racial and ethnic identity in the United States.” Ethnicities 3, no. 4 (2003): 427-464.
- UCLA Latino Politics and Policy Institute, Centering Black Latinidad.
- Pages 35-49 (password-protected PDF) in Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams – The Craft of Research, Third Edition (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)-University of Chicago Press (2008) “From topics to questions”
- Video:
September 8 Week 3: Power
Freire, P. (2000). Pedagogy of the oppressed (30th anniversary ed.). New York: Continuum. (chapter 2) (pp. 71-86) (password-protected PDF)
Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples by Linda Tuhiwai Smith, 1st Edition. Moorpark, CA: Cram101 Inc., [2013], pages 42-78
Nakano Glenn, “Settler Colonialism as Structure” (password-protected PDF)
Next week:
- Submit 2 topic ideas to class discussion board by Tuesday September 12
- Offer feedback to two peers by Thursday afternoon.
September 15th Week 4: No Class
- Submit 2 topic ideas to class discussion board by Tuesday September 12
- Offer feedback to two peers by Thursday afternoon.
September 22 Week 5: Researcher Standpoints and Community
Roque Ramírez, Horacio N., 2002 “My Community, My History, My Practice,” Oral History Review, Summer/Fall 2002, 29 (2): 87-9. (password-protected PDF)
Chávez, Minerva S. “Autoethnography, a Chicana’s methodological research tool: The role of storytelling for those who have no choice but to do critical race theory.” Equity & Excellence in Education 45, no. 2 (2012): 334-348. (password-protected PDF)
Williams, Erica, “A Tale of Two Women”
Ramos-Zayas, Ana Y. “Becoming American, becoming black? Urban competency, racialized spaces, and the politics of citizenship among Brazilian and Puerto Rican youth in Newark.” Identities: Global studies in culture and power 14, no. 1-2 (2007): 85-109; (password-protected PDF)
Read: Pages 68-69 (from problems to sources); 87-94 (engaging sources); 108 – 112 (making a claim and supporting it) Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams – The Craft of Research, Third Edition (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)-University of Chicago Press (2008). (password-protected PDFs)
September 29 Week 6: Primary Source Work
Primary Sources and Secondary Sources
Read: “Engaging Sources” (P. 94-101); “Making Good Arguments: An Overview” (P. 108- 119) from Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams – The Craft of Research, Third Edition (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)-University of Chicago Press (2008). (password-protected PDFs)
Online submission of primary source analysis
October 6 Week 7 Conference
Research Topic and Questions Due on Wednesday October 11th
October 13 Week 7
José Martí, “Our America”
Vicki Ruiz, “Nuestra America: Latino History as United States History.” Journal of American History, (2006). (password-protected PDF)
Cecilia Marquez, “Juan Crow and the Erasure of Blackness in the Latina/o South.” Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas. Sep 2019, Vol. 16 Issue 3, p79-85. (password-protected PDF)
Burgos Jr, Adrian. “Left Out: Afro-Latinos, Black Baseball, and the Revision of Baseball’s Racial History.” Social Text 27, no. 1 (2009): 37-58. (password-protected PDF)
October 20 Visualizing Race, Ethnicity, and Nation: Methods
“Casta Paintings: Inventing Race Through Art Reveals 18th-Century Attitudes on Racial Mixing,” National Public Radio.
José Luis Falconi, “No me Token, Or How to Make Sure We Never Lose the * Completely”.
Sara Roffino, “Is Brazil’s Most Famous Art Movement Built on Racial Inequality?,” Artnet, 2018
October 27 Week 10: Visit to Brooklyn Museum;
Literature Review Due October 26
November 3 Week 11 (Hybrid)
Latinos Beyond Reel (Kanopy); Castañeda, Mari. “Television and its impact on Latinx communities.” The Oxford handbook of Latino studies (2020): 462; Televisual Analysis
November 17 Week 12
Afi Quinn, Rachel. “Spinning the Zoetrope: Visualizing the Mixed-Race Body of Dominican Actress Zoe Saldaña.” Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture 1, no. 3 (2019): 44-59.
M. Báez, Jillian. “Performing Representational Labor: Blackness, Indigeneity, and Legibility in Global Latinx Media Cultures.” Feminist Media Studies (2022): 1-16.
