Wake Up, Rise Up!

A Week of Social Justice Teach-Ins

April 25-27 & 30, 2018

Syllabus

Immigrant Justice

Becoming an UndocuAlly: Considerations for Supporting Undocumented, TPS, and DACA Students and Their Families

· http://www.thedream.us/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Pre-Work-Packet.pdf

· http://www.apa.org/topics/immigration/

Migrant Voices: Amplifying Voice through Digital Story Telling

· “The Digital Storytelling Cookbook” from the Center for Digital Storytelling: https://wrd.as.uky.edu/sites/default/files/cookbook.pdf

· Toolbox of free online resources for digital storytelling: https://elearningindustry.com/18-free-digital-storytelling-tools-for-teachers-and-students

· Examples of digital stories and more how-to on digital storytelling: https://www.storycenter.org/

· “My Asian Americana” example: https://youtu.be/YQxtfCz4B1o

Fighting for Immigrant Rights in Uncertain Times

· Crawley, Heaven and Dimitris Skleparis. 2018. “Refugees, Migrants, Neither, Both: Categorical Fetishism and the Politics of Bounding in Europe’s ‘Migration Crisis’.” Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies 44(1):48-64.

· Gonzales, Roberto G. 2011. “Learning to Be Illegal: Undocumented Youth and Shifting Legal Contexts in the Transition to Adulthood.” American Sociological Review 76(4):602-19.

· Radhakrishnan, Smitha and Cinzia Solari. 2015. “Empowered Women, Failed Patriarchs: Neoliberalism and Global Gender Anxieties.” Sociology Compass 9(9):784-802.

· Terriquez, Veronica. 2015. “Intersectional Mobilization, Social Movement Spillover, and Queer Youth Leadership in the Immigrant Rights Movement.” Social Problems 62:343-62.

Faculty Supporting DACA, TPS, and Undocumented Students

· United We Dream’s Toolkit for Educators: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o-zD9Yy-oJboGOtWkBD3E8bz3DhEPPikOBBzYOOXSdU/edit

· National Latina(o) Psychological Association, Mental Health in the Post-DACA Era: Building Strength in Undocumented Latinxs, DACA Recipients, and Those Who Love Them: https://unitedwedream.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/F_NLPA-UWD-Mental-Health-Resources.pdf

· Roberto G. Gonzalez, “Here's how DACA changed the lives of young immigrants, according to research” (2018): https://www.vox.com/2017/9/2/16244380/daca-benefits-trump-undocumented-immigrants-jobs

Labor Justice

Gender Justice

Unpacking and re-messaging gendered and related socialization messages at structural, social, and personal levels

· Bem, S. (1993). The lenses of gender: transforming the debate on sexual inequality (133-175). New Haven: Yale University Press.

· Nadal, K. L., Issa, M. A., Leon, J., Meterko, V., Wideman, M., & Wong, Y. (2011). Sexual orientation microaggressions: “Death by a thousand cuts” for lesbian, gay, and bisexual youth. Journal of LGBT Youth, 8(3), 234-259.

The Intersection Between Structural Stigma and Health Outcomes in Transgender Individuals

· Mikeal, A. (2018). A recent legislation on transgender issues. Exigence, 2(1). https://commons.vccs.edu/exigence/vol2/iss1/4

· Bowman, K. L. (2018). A counterfactual history of transgender students’ rights.

· S. L., Hughto, J. M. W., Dunham, E. E., Heflin, K. J., Begenyi, J. B. G., Coffey‐Esquivel, J., & Cahill, S. (2015).

· Legal protections in public accommodations settings: A critical public health issue for transgender and gender‐nonconforming people. The Milbank Quarterly, 93(3), 484-515.

· Roysircar, G., Studeny, J., Rodgers, S. E., & Lee-Barber, J. S. (2018). Multicultural Disparities in Legal and Mental Health Systems: A Consideration and Applications. The Practitioner Scholar: Journal of Counseling and Professional Psychology, 7(1).

· Patterson, J. G., & Jabson, J. M. (2018). Sexual orientation measurement and chronic disease disparities: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2009–2014. Annals of epidemiology, 28(2), 72-85.

Wake Up, See Us: Highlighting Queer Student of Color Narratives at UMB (see also Racial Justice)

· Kugle, S. A. (2014). Living out Islam: voices of gay, lesbian, and transgender Muslims. New York University Press.

· http://fenwayhealth.org/

· https://www.bagly.org/clinic/

· Just Me and Allah: A Queer Muslim Photo Project. (n.d.). Retrieved October 15, 2017, from http://queermuslimproject.tumblr.com/;

· http://www.somarts.org/thirdmuslim/

· https://lgbtcampus.memberclicks.net/assets/tqsoc%20support%202016.pdf

Are We There Yet? Marriage Equality, “Gay” Wedding Cakes, and Religious/Moral Exemptions

· Obergefell v. Hodges, 135 S. Ct. 2584 (2015)

· Human Rights Watch: “All We Want is Equality:” Religious Exemptions and Discrimination against LGBT People in the United States (2018).

· Jacquelyn Cooper, “Modern Day Segregation: States Fighting to Legally Allow Businesses to Refuse Service to Same-Sex Couples Under the Shield of the First Amendment,” Rutgers Journal of Law & Religion ,15: 413 (2014).

Queers Resisting the Prison Industrial Complex (see also Resistance)

· Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex, Second Edition, Eric A. Stanley (Editor); Nat Smith (Editor); CeCe McDonald (Foreword) (book): https://www.akpress.org/captivegenders2.html

· “Coming Out of Concrete Closets” (report): http://www.blackandpink.org/wp-content/upLoads/Coming-Out-of-Concrete-Closets.-Black-and-Pink.-October-21-2015..pdf;

· Introduction to Black and Pink (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xf0ptDXizU

Information on the Massachusetts Gender Identity Anti- Discrimination Veto Referendum and Strategies for Activism

· Singh, A. A. (2013). “Transgender youth of color and resilience: Negotiating oppression and finding support.” Sex Roles, 68(11-12), 690-702;

· Nadal, K. L., Erazo, T., Fiani, C. N., Parilla, M. C. M., & Han, H. “Navigating microaggressions, overt discrimination, and institutional oppression: Transgender and gender nonconforming people and the criminal justice system.” In Exploring the toxicity of lateral violence and microaggressions (Palgrave, 2018; pp. 51-74).

· Cham; Ballotpedia. (2018). Massachusetts Gender Identity Anti-Discrimination Veto Referendum (2018): https://ballotpedia.org/Massachusetts_Gender_Identity_Anti-Discrimination_Veto_Referendum_(2018)

· Dunn, M. (2018). Myth Buster. Freedom For All Massachusetts: https://www.freedommassachusetts.org/mythbuster/

· Russell, G. M., Bohan, J. S., McCarroll, M. C., & Smith, N. G. (2011). “Trauma, recovery, and community: Perspectives on the long-term impact of anti-LGBT politics.” Traumatology, 17(2), 14-23.

Decolonization/Justice for Indigenous People(s)

It’s Not Complicated: BDS & Palestinian Liberation (see also Resistance)

· Farsakh, Leila. “An Identity Card.” Consequence Magazine Vol. 8 (Spring 2016): 39-62.

· Prashad, Vijay. Letters to Palestine: Writers Respond to War and Occupation (Verso, 2015).

· Said, Edward. The Question of Palestine (Vintage Reissue, 2015).

· Occupation of the American Mind, dir. Loretta Alper and Jeremy Earp (watch for free online: https://www.occupationmovie.org/)

· Thank God It’s Friday, dir. Jan Beddegenoodts (watch for free online: https://jman.tv/film/5226/Thank+God+it%27s+Friday)

· www.electronicintifada.net for regular news and analysis about Palestine

Settler Colonialism in Comparative Perspective

· Wolfe, Patrick, The Settler Complex: Recuperating Binarism in Colonial Studies (Los Angeles: UCLA American Indian Studies Center, 2016).

· Day, Iyko, Alien Capital: Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism (Durham: Duke University Press, 2016).

· Salaita, Steven. Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016).

· Simpson, Audra, Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States (Durham: Duke University Press, 2014).

· Snelgrove, Corey, Rita Dhamoon, Jeff Corntassel (Cherokee), “Unsettling settler colonialism: The discourse and politics of settlers, and solidarity with Indigenous nations,” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 3, no. 2 (2014): 1-32.

· Tuck, Eve (Aleut) and K. Wayne Yang, “Decolonization is Not a Metaphor,” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education, Society 1, no. 1 (2012): 1-40.

· Kauanui, J. Kēhaulani (Kanaka Maoli) and Patrick Wolfe, “Settler Colonialism Then and Now,” Politica & Societa 2 (2012): 235-258.

· Veracini, Lorenzo, Settler Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview (New York: Palgrave, 2010).

· Farsakh, Leila, “The Political Economy of Israel Occupation: What is Colonial about It?” Electronic Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 8 (Spring 2008): 41-58.

· Wolfe, Patrick, “Settler Colonialism and the Elimination of the Native,” Journal of Genocide Research 8, no. 4 (2006): 387-409.

Racial Justice

Race and Racism 101

· Smedley, A., & Smedley, B. D. (2005). “Race as biology is fiction, racism as a social problem is real: Anthropological and historical perspectives on the social construction of race.” American Psychologist, 60(1), 16-26.

· Gaertner, S. L. & Dovidio, J. F. (2005). “Understanding and addressing contemporary racism: From aversive racism to the common ingroup identity model.” Journal of Social Issues, 61, 615-639.

· Golash-Bozam T. M. (2016). Race and Racisms: A Critical Approach. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

· See videos, articles, websites, blogs, and book recommendations at: Racejustice.org

Confronting Racism from a Biological Anthropology Perspective

· Marks J. 2014. “The Genes Made Us Do It: The new pseudoscience of racial difference.” In These Times: http://inthesetimes.com/article/16674/the_genes_made_us_do_it

· Mielke JH, Konigsberg LW, & Relethford JH. 2010. Human Biological Variation. Oxford University Press.

· “Race: Are We So Different?” A Project of the American Anthropological Association: http://www.understandingrace.org/home.html

Countering White Fragility: Strategies for prevention and intervention

· DiAngelo, R. (2011) “White Fragility.” International Journal of Critical Pedagogy, 3 (3), 54-70;

· Oluo, I. (2018). So you want to talk about race. New York: Seal Press.

· See also “allies” resources at http://racejustice.org/

The Color of Mental Health

· http://racejustice.org/

· https://www.anxiety.org/understanding-racism-anxiety-and-related-stress-can-help-people-of-color-cope-with-negative-effects

· https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/24/magazine/racisms-psychological-toll.html

· https://everydayfeminism.com/2017/08/people-of-color-mental-health/

· Paradies, Y. (2006). “A systemic review of empirical research on self-reported racism and health.” International Journal of Epidemiology, 35(4), 888- 901, https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyl056.

Dream or Nightmare?: The Struggle to make Black and Working-Class Lives Matter at UMass Boston (see also Labor Justice)

· Interview with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1967), “My Dream Turned into a Nightmare”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wjsr-T2CPnk

· Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., “Why We Can't Wait” (1964)

· Theodore W. Allen, The Invention of the White Race, 2^nd edition (Verso, 2012)

MLK and the Memphis Sanitation Workers (see also Labor Justice)

· William P. Jones, The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights (W.W. Norton & Co., 2014)

· Joseph Rosenblum, Redemption: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Last 31 Hours (Beacon Press 2018)

· Alice Faye Duncan and R. Gregory Christie, Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968 (Calkins Creek, 2018) (children’s book)

Wake Up, See Us: Highlighting Queer Student of Color Narratives at UMB (see also Gender Justice)

· Kugle, S. A. (2014). Living out Islam: voices of gay, lesbian, and transgender Muslims. New York University Press.

· http://fenwayhealth.org/

· https://www.bagly.org/clinic/

· Just Me and Allah: A Queer Muslim Photo Project. (n.d.). Retrieved October 15, 2017, from http://queermuslimproject.tumblr.com/;

· http://www.somarts.org/thirdmuslim/

· https://lgbtcampus.memberclicks.net/assets/tqsoc%20support%202016.pdf

Education Justice

Resistance

Rise up and heal: Resistance and Expression Through Art Psych

· Exercises: http://intuitivecreativity.typepad.com/expressiveartinspirations/100-art-therapy-exercises.html

· Lusebrink, V. B. (2016). “Expressive therapies continuum.” In D. E. Gussak, M. L. Rosal, D. E. Gussak, M. L. Rosal (Eds.), The Wiley handbook of art therapy (pp. 57-67). Wiley-Blackwell.

It’s Not Complicated: BDS & Palestinian Liberation (see also Decolonization)

· Farsakh, Leila. “An Identity Card.” Consequence Magazine Vol. 8 (Spring 2016): 39-62.

· Prashad, Vijay. Letters to Palestine: Writers Respond to War and Occupation (Verso, 2015).

· Said, Edward. The Question of Palestine (Vintage Reissue, 2015).

· Occupation of the American Mind, dir. Loretta Alper and Jeremy Earp (watch for free online: https://www.occupationmovie.org/)

· Thank God It’s Friday, dir. Jan Beddegenoodts (watch for free online: https://jman.tv/film/5226/Thank+God+it%27s+Friday)

· www.electronicintifada.net for regular news and analysis about Palestine

Queers Resisting the Prison Industrial Complex (see also Gender Justice)

· “Coming Out of Concrete Closets” (report): http://www.blackandpink.org/wp-content/upLoads/Coming-Out-of-Concrete-Closets.-Black-and-Pink.-October-21-2015..pdf;

· Introduction to Black and Pink (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xf0ptDXizU

Why Bother with Prison Education? (see also Education Justice)

· Michelle Jones, “Incarcerated Scholars, Qualitative Inquiry, and Subjugated Knowledge: The Value of Incarcerated and Post-incarcerated Scholars in the Age of Mass Incarceration,” Journal of Prisoners on Prisons, 25.2 (2016)

· http://www.partakers.org/

· http://sites.bu.edu/pep/