Category: Ethnic Studies
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Mutual Aid, Abolition, and Transformative Justice
CJ Trowbridge 2021-12-07 ETHS 100 Week 13 Notes Introductions Dean Spade Dean Spade’s book is about the importance of mutual aid for building social movements, and the specific models and approaches for avoiding the common pitfalls that mutual aid organizations run into. Dean has been involved in mutual aid for decades, but felt a strong…
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On Indigenous Epistemology and Ethics
CJ Trowbridge 2021-10-18 AIS 440 Week 8 Literature Review: On Indigenous Epistemology and Ethics Choose 2 of the lectures from the first 7 weeks of class and write a minimum 2 page response by answering the following questions: 1. What was the main topic of the lectures? 2. What did you learn from the lectures?…
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Resisting Pressure to Conform To Capitalist Hegemony
CJ Trowbridge AIS 440 Week 6: Two-Spirit People 2021-09-28 Prompt: Describe an action, idea, or ideology that continues to impose colonial heteropatriarchal principles onto Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and what steps you believe are necessary to rewrite this area of colonial and settler analysis. This response needs to be a minimum of…
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AIS 440 Week 6: Two-Spirit People
Watch In the Life: The Murder of Fred Martinez Jr Two-Spirits Documentary Read A Boy Remembered Man who murdered LGBTQ teen in Cortez is released from prison Write Describe an action, idea, or ideology that continues to impose colonial heteropatriarchal principles onto Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and what steps you believe are…
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AIS 440 Week 5: Queer Indigenous Studies
Read I am a Cherokee Woman, Elizabeth Warren is not Open Letter From Indigenous Women Scholars Regarding Discussions of Andrea Smith Watch Kuma Hina Documentary Fa’afafine Documentary
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Choosing to be Queer Native or Native Queer
CJ Trowbridge AIS 440 Native Sexualities and Queer Discourse Choosing to be Queer Native or Native Queer I was struck by the following quote from the Barbara May Cameron article, “Cameron’s refusal to be queer in one corner of her life, and native in another, is as radical and transformative now, as it was then.…
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AIS 440 Week 4: Gay American Indians
Read Barbara May Cameron Native Americans/LGBTQ+ Americans: 1528-1976 Listen Randy Burns’s Work Starting Gay American Indians Roger Kuhn: Decolonizing and Unsettling Pleasure Write Choose any of the readings, videos, or podcasts from the first four weeks. Papers must include two parts: a review of the readings, videos, or podcasts. A review is not a close reading…
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ETHS 100 Week 3: Settler Colonialism and Indian Removal
Read/Write Dunbar-Ortiz Intro: This Land (Audiobook (8:32-), I can also share this) Please read Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz’ “Introduction” from her book, An Indigenous People’s History of the United States (attached below). Then, upload a pdf or word document with your responses to the following questions. In 2-3 sentences each, please respond to the following: 1. Define Settler Colonialism…
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AIS 440 Week 3: Learning From The Past
Read (All of these are behind academic paywalls but I can share PDFs. Please reach out if you need them.) Sabine Lang: Native American men-women, lesbians, two-spirits: Contemporary and historical perspectives Will Roscoe: Was We’Wha a Homosexual Roscoe – Bibliography Watch Two-Spirit People
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AIS 440 Week 2: Decolonize Sexuality
Read Abel R. Gomez – San Francisco Pride, Nation’s Largest LGBT Celebration, Takes Place on Indigenous Ohlone Land A Map of Gender Diverse Cultures Decolonization is not a metaphor “Decolonization brings about the repatriation of Indigenous land and life; it is not a metaphor for other things we want to do to improve our societies and…