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Week 1
Jan 27 Introduction and syllabus review
- In Class: Bad Bunny-Debí Tirar Más Fotos (Short Film). YouTube.
- Making the Impossible Possible: The Story of Puerto Rican Studies in Brooklyn College (library login). Directed by Pamela Sporn and Tami Gold. Third World Newsreel, 2021.
Week 2
Feb 3
- Read before class: Keyword: “Latinidad/es” (library login) by Francis R. Aparicio in Keywords for Latina/o Studies (Fountain-Stokes, N. R. Mirabal, & D. R. Vargas, Eds.). New York University Press, 2020, 113-117.
- Lopez, Alan Pelaez. “The X in Latinx is a Wound, Not a Trend.” Color Bloq, September 2018.
Feb 5
- Read before class: Negrón-Muntaner, Frances. “Are Brazilians Latinos? What Their Identity Struggle Tells Us about Race in America.” The Conversation, December 20, 2016.
- Nuñez, Cecilia, Julia Silver, Misael Galdámez, Nancy López. “Latino Is Not a Race.” UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Institute. August 29, 2024.
- Hernández, Tanya. “The New Census Racial Categories ‘Erase’ Afro Latinos.” The Hill, April 3, 2024.
Week 3
Feb 10
- Read before class: Goin, Keara K. “Afro-Latinx Identity and Media.” Latinx Media: An Open-Access Textbook.
Feb 11 1st Reflection Due
Feb 12 College Closed
Week 4
Feb 18
- Hybrid Watch for today: Cuban Roots: Bronx Stories (library login). Directed by Pamela Sporn. Third World Newsreel, 2000.
- Jamison, Gayla. Living in America : A Hundred Years of Ybor City (library login). New York, NY: Filmakers Library, 1989.
Feb 19
- Read before class: Figueredo, Danilo H. 2003. “From Ybor City With Amor: The Afro-Cubans of Tampa (library login).” Multicultural Review 12 (3): 62–65.
- Introduction from McNamara, Sarah. Ybor City : Crucible of the Latina South (library login). 1st ed. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023. ProQuest Ebook Central.
Week 5
Feb 24
- Read before class: Rivera-Rideau, Petra R. “If I Were You: Tego Calderón’s Diasporic Interventions (library login).” Small Axe : A Journal of Criticism 22, no. 1 (2018): 55–69.
Feb 26
- Read before class: Vasquez, Nina. “The Erasure of Blackness in Reggaeton.” Black Perspectives. African American Intellectual History Society. AAIHS. February 14, 2024.
Week 6
March 3
- Read before class: Moreira, Raquel, 2024. “Rhetorics of Authentic Hybridity and the Racially Mobile Mestiça in ‘Girl from Rio.’ (library login).” Quarterly Journal of Speech110 (3): 331–46.
March 5
- Read before class: Keyword: Indigeneity. Vargas, Deborah R., Fountain-Stokes, Lawrence La, and Mirabal, Nancy Raquel, eds. Keywords for Latina/o Studies (library login). New York: New York University Press, 2017. Accessed January 17, 2025. ProQuest Ebook Central.
March 6
- Due: 2nd Reflection
Week 7
March 10
- Read before class: Bianet Castellanos, M. (2017) “Rewriting the Mexican Immigrant Narrative: Situating Indigeneity in Maya Women’s Stories (library login).” Latino Studies 15: 219-241.
March 12
- Read before class (password-protected PDF): M. Báez, Jillian. “Performing representational labor: Blackness, indigeneity, and legibility in global Latinx media cultures.” Feminist Media Studies 23, no. 5 (2023): 2455-2470.
Week 8
March 17: Discussion
March 19: Film selections
Week 9
March 24: Hybrid Visit to Rican Visions Exhibition
March 26: Hybrid Visit to Rican Visions Exhibition
April 2: Sharing of Exhibition Experiences. 3rd Reflection Due
Week 10
April 7
- Read before class: Introduction from Poblete, JoAnna. Islanders in the Empire : Filipino and Puerto Rican Laborers in Hawai’i (library login). University of Illinois Press, 2014. ProQuest Ebook Central.
April 9
- Read before class: Introduction from Fojas, Camilla. Islands of Empire : Pop Culture and U. S. Power (library login). University of Texas Press, 2014. ProQuest Ebook Central.
April 10: 1st Written/Audio/and/or Visual Assignment Due
Spring Break: No Classes (4/12/2025-4/20/2025)
Week 11
April 21: Film Selections
April 23
- Read before class: Bonilla, Yarimar. “A Legacy of Colonialism Set the Stage for the Maui Wildfires.” The New York Times, August 23, 2023. Access free NYT subscription here.
Week 12
April 28
- Listen: Bad Bunny. BAD BUNNY – LO QUE LE PASÓ A HAWAii | DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS, 2025.
April 30: Research and Connections with LA Wildfires and Latinx Communities
Week 13
May 5
- Watch before class: “Why Are Novelas so White?” We Are Mitu. March 12, 2017.
May 7: In Class Telenovela Selections and Discussion
Week 14
May 12: In Class Work
May 14: Class Wrap Up
Week 15
May 22: 2nd Written, Visual, or Audio Assignment Due
