English 3922
Chicana/o Literature
Spring 2018
**CHANGE IN READING FOR TUESDAY, 4/10: “Chiefing in Cherokee” IN PDF BELOW
**Thurs Apr 12: first 100 pages The Guardians
SYLLABI & OTHER CLASS DOCSSyllabus
Oral History Assignment
Oral History handbooks
Link to other oral history resources from the Oral History Association: http://www.oralhistory.org/web-guides-to-doing-oral-history/Explication Three DUE 03/27/18
Explication Two DUE 02/27/18
Explication One DUE 02/06/18
Chicano! documentary response paper DUE 01/23WATCH THE DOCUMENTARY during our first class period AND WRITE A ONE-PAGE RESPONSE (double-spaced). What was most interesting about the documentary for you? What did you learn? To what new perspectives, politics, or history did the documentary introduce you?
IF YOU MISSED THE FIRST CLASS OR YOU WANT TO WATCH THE DOCUMENTARY AGAIN, IT IS AVAILABLE ON YOUTUBE: SAMPLE EXPLICATION ASSIGNMENT AND SAMPLE ESSAY
Audacity: a Brief Tutorial by Samuel Coronado
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REQUIRED READINGS
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chiefing_in_cherokee.pdf |
Neil Foley, "The Genesis of Mexican America" DUE by 01/25/18
neil_foley.pdf |
Cherríe Moraga, "Introducción to the First Edition," "La Guera," and "A Long Line of Vendidas"
moraga_lwy_intro_and_la_guera.pdf |
moraga_lwy_vendidas.pdf |
Jimmy Santiago Baca, poetry selections
baca_poetry.pdf |
Corky González, "I Am Joaquin"
i_am_joaquin.pdf |
Gloria Anzaldúa, "El Retorno"
anzaldua_retorno.pdf |
Neil Foley, "The Genesis of Mexican America"
neil_foley.pdf |
"Earth to Earth" by Patricia Preciado Martin:
earth_to_earth.pdf |
"Little Miracles, Kept Promises" by Sandra Cisneros
cisneros_little_miracles.pdf |
SUGGESTED READINGS:
Lorna Dee Cervantes, "Poem for a Young White Man Who Asked Me How I, an Intelligent, Well-Read Person Could Believe in the War Between the Races" (follow the link or download file below)
poem_for_the_young_white_man_who_asked_me_how_i.pdf |
Maylei Blackwell, "Introduction: The Telling is Political"
blackwell_chicana_power_intro.pdf |
Enriqueta Vasquez, from Enriqueta Vasquez and the Chicano Movement: Writings from El Grito del Norte
vasquez_part_1.pdf |
vasquez_part_2.pdf |
Ana Castillo, "The 1986 Watsonville Women's Strike: A Case of Mexican Activism"
castillo_essays.pdf |
Cherríe Moraga, Watsonville
watsonville.pdf |
Gloria Anzaldúa, "now let us shift . . . the path of conocimiento . . . inner work, public acts"
now_let_us_shift.pdf |
Other documents/links
of interest:
2010 U.S. Census Form:
2010_census_form.pdf |
Analysis of Hispanic/Latina/o data from 2010 Census:
hispanic_latinao_data_2010_census.pdf |
http://www.hiddenhispanicheritage.com/21-speak-any-spanish-lately.html
List of books, movies, or other things I have mentioned in class that are not required in any way whatsoever but that might interest you!
--film: Lone Star, dir. John Sayles
--novel: Revolt of the Cockroach People and Autobiography of Brown Buffalo by Oscar Zeta Acosta
--documentaries: other three parts of Chicano!: A History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement
--documentary: A Class Apart, about the Supreme Court case Hernandez v. Texas
--film: Walkout, produced by Moctesuma Esparza (who appears in the Chicano! documentary we watched in class)
--Mexican American theatre company in Dallas: Cara Mía Theatre
--poet Alurista who helped conceptualize Aztlán
--play: Real Women Have Curves by Josefina Lopez; it is different from the feature film and I very much recommend reading the play as well as watching the film
--book: With His Pistol in His Hand: A Border Ballad and Its Hero by Américo Paredes (1958) and the film version: The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez, and an indie feature film written and directed by Jimmy Mendiola, Come and Take It Day, that puts contemporary Chicana/o identity into conversation with its Texas history.
--novel: Revolt of the Cockroach People and Autobiography of Brown Buffalo by Oscar Zeta Acosta
--documentaries: other three parts of Chicano!: A History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement
--documentary: A Class Apart, about the Supreme Court case Hernandez v. Texas
--film: Walkout, produced by Moctesuma Esparza (who appears in the Chicano! documentary we watched in class)
--Mexican American theatre company in Dallas: Cara Mía Theatre
--poet Alurista who helped conceptualize Aztlán
--play: Real Women Have Curves by Josefina Lopez; it is different from the feature film and I very much recommend reading the play as well as watching the film
--book: With His Pistol in His Hand: A Border Ballad and Its Hero by Américo Paredes (1958) and the film version: The Ballad of Gregorio Cortez, and an indie feature film written and directed by Jimmy Mendiola, Come and Take It Day, that puts contemporary Chicana/o identity into conversation with its Texas history.