Please dm me with any questions, instructions pretty self explanitory
What?
A project where you focus both on learning and doing.
I seek your personal, first-hand, detailed, and ethnographic experience via a Community Engagement Assignment for this assignment. There are five assignment choices for you to pick from.
Options (Choose One)
Cultural Commentary Review
Research Article
Community Member Interview
Biographic Narrative
Short Story
Cultural Commentary Review (4-5 pages)
Review a television show, a feature film, a documentary film, a song, or a poem (or another artistic intervention) that you select that has political or social implications for the study of Ethnic Studies. Explore the connection, and in particular, the intersections of course themes as expressed in the piece.
Some questions to consider (no you don’t have to answer each individually, but rather use them to develop your response.)
Does the work focus on one or more course themes (or multiple at once? Note if it does not address an issue (not finding something is also finding something).
Analyze the central messages created by the piece as they relate to the course themes.
Does this piece deal with racism, sexism, and discrimination, or does it offer solutions for issues? If so, how? (and if so, define the violence you are exploring.
Develop a thesis and an argument. Pull out a few issues to focus on as you cannot address all the issues featured in the work, so strive to address a few issues well.
Make explicit connections to course readings.
Focus on engaging and informing readers/listeners with your personal experience in viewing experiencing this work.
See music or a cultural or artistic magazine for examples.
silly poetry by OhanaKatherine CC by 2.0 DeedLinks to an external site.
Research Article – 4 -5 pages, on a pressing Ethnic Studies Issue. You might choose to write about an issue, an activist, scholar, or activist scholar, or you might choose to explore an issue of concern to you related to Ethnic Studies (i.e. themes and issues explored in class). Some questions to frame your paper: Guiding Question: Who was/ is this person and what is their role in helping us to understand this social justice issue today? What is the issue? What is the current politics around this issue? What is being done or not done regarding this topic? Exploratory questions: What has been their role in changing politics or a systemic issue? How has this work affected scholarship, politics, art, or activism?
You need at least three bibliographic sources
Develop a thesis and an argument
Make explicit connections to the course
Focus on engaging and informing readers
Include an article title, page numbers, citations, and works cited**
Working on the Article by Sheryl Long CC by ND 2.0 DeedLinks to an external site.
Community Member Interview
Minimum: 10 questions
Include an introductory paragraph/verbal commentary setting the scene of your interview.
Conduct the interview with whomever you want about an issue connected to the themes of the course. Examples of potential interviewees include a person who is personally familiar with ethnic studies or some aspects of the course we are studying. They may be a community organizer, professor, public intellectual, scholar, peer, another COD student, a family member, a friend, etc.
The interview must be transcribed
The interview must be directly related to course themes (does not need to be all the course themes)
In the absence of taking place in person, the interview may be conducted over Zoom
Include an introduction paragraph, a title, and a conclusion paragraph closing the experience and what you got from it
a small radio interview by per egevad CC by 2.0 DEEDLinks to an external site.
Biographic Narrative (4-5 pages)
Write your biography and delve into some aspect of your life that is related to the course themes.
Explore your experience understanding concepts from the course as they relate to your personal, honest, and lived experience.
Explore aspects of your life via ideas and concepts discussed in class, for example, intersectionality, race, ethnicity, capitalism, and so on.
Explore 2 -3 issues, ideas or concepts
Title your project
New! Biographies! by Covs 97 CC by 2.0 DeedLinks to an external site.
Short Story (4-5 pages)
Create a short story that directly engages with some of the themes of the course.
For example, you could write about someone experiencing their culture, awakening to intersectionality, experiencing culture, understanding settler colonialism, exploring some aspect of culture and your identity, etc.
Include a title and an author’s reflection about your experience writing the story (approximately 2-3 paragraphs)
Short Story by Steve Byrne CC by ND 2.0 DeedLinks to an external site.
