Task: To create a website on Voices that brings into focus a cultural topic related to diversity, intersectionality, or othering that you think is relevant and meaningful. Your topic can be related to the themes explored in class or something completely different. Your topic can focus on: a specific ... » Learn More about Digital Humanities Project
The Great Wall of Los Angeles and The Great Wall of Los Angeles
How does The Great Wall of Los Angeles bring to life the argumentative position of Suketu Mehta, author of This Land is Our Land: An immigrant's Manifesto, found throughout the book and especially at the end of the epilogue? Use at least two specific passages from the text to frame your discussion ... » Learn More about The Great Wall of Los Angeles and The Great Wall of Los Angeles
Paper 2: My Family
Identify and analyze one to three thematic intersections between My Family and the short story "Barrio Boy" and the memoir Bird of 400 Voices. Any intersection that is evident to you is valid as long as it is observable to anyone else taking this class. Possible intersections include cultural ... » Learn More about Paper 2: My Family
Paper 1: Bird of 400 Voices
Instructions: Discuss a specific episode or passage from chapters 1-4 of Bird of 400 Voices that makes you think about diversity, intersectionality, and/or otherness. What insights on diversity, intersectionality, and/or otherness does the episode or passage inspire you to have? How does your ... » Learn More about Paper 1: Bird of 400 Voices
Response Paper 6
Reflect on the role that art plays in promoting and advancing the public's understanding of diversity, intersectionality, otherness and empathy drawing from images from the Great Wall of Los Angeles and/or the portfolios of Rafael Cárdenas and Star Montana. Submission Portal ... » Learn More about Response Paper 6