Upcoming Events

It’s a busy time at the Claremont colleges…

DENISE SANDOVAL: Bajito y Suavecito
WHEN: Wednesday, March 30, 2011
WHERE: Hampton Room, Malott Commons, Scripps
TIME: 12:00 noon (doors open at 11:45)
WHAT: Sandoval’s ethnographic study of contemporary lowrider culture in Los Angeles includes oral histories of lowrider car clubs in Los Angeles. She creates an oral and visual narrative that demonstrates how lowriding developed from its East Los Angeles barrio beginnings to a multicultural practice. The emerging stories reveal the intersections of race/ethnicity, class and gender both within Chicano culture and also within American culture.

BAO PHI
WHEN: Friday, April 1, 2011
WHERE: Doms Lounge
TIME: 7:00-8:30pm
WHAT:
Bao Phi is a Vietnamese American spoken word artist and active Asian American community organizer. He creates and operates programs at the Loft for artists and audiences of color. A two-time Minnesota Grand Slam champion and a National Poetry Slam finalist, Bao Phi has appeared on HBO Presents Russell Simmons Def Poetry.

Check out Bao Phi on Youtube.
RSVP to the Facebook event here.

WEEK 11

This week will be our first of two with the book Guest Workers or Colonized Labor? Mexican Migration to the US, by Gilbert Gonzalez. For our seminar we will be reading and discussing the Introduction and Chapters 1-3.

You do NOT have to write a Critical Evaluation Essay this week but you should prepare some discussion points related to the book. We will use these to frame our conversation.

Have a good weekend…

WEEK 10

I hope you have a relaxing and productive spring break.  We’ll come back after the break and return to our regular class format–a student-led discussion of a book and a critical evaluation exercise.

When we come back we will be discussing Racial Propositions: Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California, by Daniel Martinez HoSang.  It is a wonderfully written and argued book that you’ll undoubtedly find useful to your own thinking about race and racism in the late 20th century.  It has 8 chapters and an introduction and a conclusion, so you might want to divide your reading into 10 sections total.

Here is the author discussing his book during a recent visit to Pitzer College.  (Unfortunately, the sounds if terrible quality, so you’ll have to crank it up.)

Take care…

WEEK 08

This is a breather week for us, a chance for you to get started on your Historiographical Essay assignment.

This week you have to make a decision about the topic of your essay and identify at least 4 sources you will use to frame the historiography. You will each present your four sources by author, name, and publication year. Come prepared to do so. As we discussed, the “Assignment Sheet” is now posted on the Assignments page.

We will also watch a documentary in class related to Latino immigration and labor.

And we’ll HAVE a picnic with the food you bring!

See you next week!