This course was designed for a course that meets twice weekly for 1hr 15minute sessions.
* This syllabus is subject to change, due to current events.
You will be notified in advance of any changes.
Topic: Welcome, Course Overview & Assessment
- Assignments Due: Session activity
Topic: Framing Our Course; Ethnic Studies
- Reading/Material Due: PRLS History; Why Puerto Rican Studies?, on the PRLS website, by Antonio Nadal: http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/academics/schools/socialsciences/departments/prlstudies/history.php
- Course-session Film: Gold, Sporn, P., & Colón López, G. (2021). Making the impossible possible.
[Grito Productions]. (More information and study guide here: https://www.apree.org/film). - Consider: Palos, A. McGinnis, E. (Director). (2011). Precious Knowledge [Video file]. Dos Vatos. from Kanopy.
Topic: Framing Our Course; Ethnic Studies.
- Session activity: film reflection/assessments: How 50 Years of Latino Studies Shaped History Education. Atlantic Online by Natalie Escobar. (September 7, 2018 Friday).
Topic: Intro to Digital Mapping & Digital Archives.
- Lesson TBA (summer ’23).
- Assignment Due: One work cited related to Puerto Rican and/or Latino Studies, by Sunday (discussion board- BB).
Topics: : Las Raíces & Terminology.
- Readings Due:
- Op-Ed: Why I embrace the term Latinx, by Ed Morales. (2018, Jan. 8)
- Opinion: What Sarah Huckabee Sanders gets wrong with her ‘Latinx’ ban, by Ed Morales (2023, Jan. 13)
Topic: Collaborative Mapping/Groups; Mapping PRLS
- Lesson TBA (summer ’23).
- Assignments Due: Topics & Ideas for Midterm Project Check-in.
Topic: Mexico-Mexicans & Literatures.
- Readings Due:
- Anzaldúa, G. (1987). Borderlands/la frontera. na. Chapters 1 & 2.
- Assignments Due: Reflection-Reaction First Draft check-in.
Topic: Holding Date for Library Session.
- Readings Due:
- Article: Adidas Really Went & Made Concha Sneakers- Here’s How You Can Get Yours, by Kiko Martinez for Remezcla magazine (May 17, 2023).
- Optional Assignment Due: Reflection-Reaction First Draft (brief writing) by Sunday (upload BB).
Topic: Puerto Rico-Puerto Ricans & Immigration.
- Readings Due:
- Venator, Charles. (2018, Mar. 6) “The Law That Made Puerto Ricans U.S. Citizens, Yet Not Fully Americans” Zocalo Public Square.
- Brief Historical Chronology “Migrant Pioneers 1898-1930s“, Puerto Rican Heritage Poster Series by Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños.
- Optional Reading:
- Puerto Ricans in the United States: A Brief Chronology by Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños.
Topic: Puerto Rico-Puerto Ricans, cont’d.
- Readings Due:
- Brief Historical Chronology “Great Migration 1940s-Mid 1960s” & “Puerto Rican Movements 1960s-2010s“, Puerto Rican Heritage Poster Series by Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños.
Topic: Cuba- Cubans & Government.
- Readings Due:
- Rivero, Daniel. (2019, May 11) Cuban Immigrants were Given a Haven in the U.S.; Now they’re being Deported. NPR
- Article: Cuba Overwhelmingly Votes in Favor of Same-Sex Marriage in Rare Referendum by Jorge Rodriguez-Jimenez for Remezcla Magazine (September 26, 2022).
- Watch: Video Segment: PBS; Cuban Exodus. Clip: Season 1
Topic: Latinx Art, Activism & Social Media.
- Reading Due: Latinx Art: A Conversation with Arlene Dávila, by Fredrick Luis Aldama for Latinx Spaces (January, 14, 2021).
Topic: Dominicans and Latinx Art, Activism & Social Media Cont’d.
- Readings Due:
- Article: How Washington Heights Became Known as “Little Dominican Republic” on NY1 Spectrum News.
- Article: 10 Young Artists Leading the New Wave of Dominican Art by Christina Noriega for Remezcla Magazine (January 30, 2018).
Topic: Dominicans in the U.S.
- Readings Due:
- Article: This is Where We Live Now, by Henry Suarez for HuellasMag.
Topic: Presentations of Midterm Projects.
Topic: She Was There Too- Film
- Course-session Film: Santana, Congdon, J., Benson, B., Bratt, B., Bratt, P., Kilian, M., & Dana, J. (2018). Dolores. PBS Distribution.
- Readings Due:
- Maria Godoy (2017, Sept. 17) Dolores Huerta: The Civil Rights Icon Who Showed Farmworkers ‘Sí Se Puede’ The Salt NPR.
- Assignment Due: Final Digital Project check-in.
Topic: Borders.
- Readings Due:
- Foreword and Introduction from Rael, R. (2014). Border wall as architecture. Borders, Fences and Walls: State of Insecurity.
- Immigration and Customs Enforcement “About Us” webpage. (Student to use online resource to locate).
- Assignment Due: Final Digital Project check-in.
Topic: Central Americans in NYC.
- Readings Due:
- Essay: A Love Letter to Indigenous Blackness, by Paul Joseph López Pro for NACLA (September 13, 2021).
- Article: A Guatemalan Bistro Serves One of NYC’s Most appealing New Fried Chicken Sandwiches, by Robert Sietsema for Eater New York (November 11, 2019).
Topic: Central Americans in NYC, Cont’d.
- Readings Due:
- Article: As Brooklyn Continues Changing, a Reflection on Crown Heights’ Panamanian Community, by Maya Doig-Acuña for Remezcla Magazine (October 22, 2018).
Topic: South Americans in NYC.
- Readings Due:
- Article: Venezuelan Asylum Seeker Works to Help New Migrants, by Eric Feldman for NY1 on Spectrum News (October 4, 2022).
- Article: Migrant Family’s Journey from Venezuela to New York City, by Juan de Dios Sánchez Jurado for Latino Rebels (November 28, 2022).
Topic: South Americans in the U.S.
- Readings Due:
- Article: Brazilian Latinoness and the Pursuit of Cultural Identity in the U.S. (Opinion) by Gabriel Leão for Latino Rebels (April 25, 2022).
- Article: How Jackson Heights Earned the Nickname ‘Little Colombia’, NY1 Spectrum News.
Topic: Presentations of Final Projects.
Topic: Final Presentations & Course-Assessment.
Final.
Topic: Learning CUNY History with the CDHA.
Lesson Plan Pending (TBA)
- Readings Due:
- Stephen Brier “Why the History of CUNY Matters: Using the CUNY Digital History Archive to Teach CUNY’s Past”. Radical Teacher, vol. 108, no. 1, May 2017, pp. 28-35, doi:10.5195/rt.2017.357.
