UNLV Latina/o Faculty Alliance

Latinx Faculty happy hour! Farewell get together to send Dr. Revilla off to CSULA after 15 years at UNLV.

Grateful for these amazing UNLV colleagues 🤓🙌🏾♥️

UNLV Latinx Faculty & Staff Alliance February 2019

Unlv students, interested in raising your consciousness and connecting with other activists on campus, check this out. I’ve been a facilitator before and really enjoyed it. You should go!

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University of Nevada, Las Vegas as a Sanctuary Campus Letter Contact: Anita Tijerina Revillla, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Chair, Interdisciplinary, Gender, and Ethnic Studies, Director, Gender and S*xuality Studies, [email protected] Christine Clark, Ed.D., Professor and Senior Scholar in Multicultural Education, Department of Teaching and Learning, chri...

UNLV students, below is a list of courses next fall in UNLV Gender and S*xuality Studies, as well as our race/ethnic studies and area studies courses. Really want all of these to make so that the university will prioritize gender, sexuality, race, ethnic studies courses into the future. Please share and get the word out so we can fill them and possibility have to make even more classes. All of the courses are eligible to meet the multicultural requirement, most are already approved. Area studies courses fulfill the international requirement. Thanks!

Interdisciplinary Degree Programs
Fall 2016 GSS/Ethnic and Area Studies-Upper division Course Offerings

African American Studies
AAS 101 African-American Survey
MW 02:30- 3:45PM Instructor: Brandon Manning ([email protected])
Interdisciplinary study of African American history, beginning in Africa and continuing to the Civil War. Relates material to the African American experience today. Satisfies Multicultural and Social Science Requirement.

AAS 105 African American Music & Culture: Hip Hop
MW 4:00-5:15PM Instructor: Derric Carter ([email protected])
Introduction to African American music and its relationship to politics and society. Genre of focus: Hip Hop.

AAS 402X Africa and its Diaspora
Tu Th 11:30-12:45 Instructor: Manoucheka Celeste ([email protected])
The course will explore the formation of the African Diaspora, contributions by its members, contemporary issues, and its future. We will also discuss factors that lead to dispersals of African peoples, including African migration, forced and voluntary, and the often understudied political, economic, and intellectual connections (from the Haitian Revolution to the Negritude Movement, and the Harlem Renaissance.)

AAS 433 Contemporary Issues African American Studies
TuTh 10:00-11:15AM Instructor: Manoucheka Celeste ([email protected])
Examination of current issues in African American Studies, focusing on recent scholarship and events. Topics may include, but are not limited to, affirmative action, Afrocentricity, mainstream consumption of African American culture, relation of Afro-Americans to Africa, and problem of continued African American success in the fields of sports and entertainment.
(Credits 3) Satisfies Multicultural and Social Science Requirement. This course is cross-listed with AAS 633, graduate course. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.

American Indian and Indigenous Studies
AIIS 100 Intro American Indian Studies
Tu 4:00-6:45PM Instructor: Crystal Lee ([email protected])
Explains the development of the academic discipline of American Indian and Indigenous Studies. Explores how its interdisciplinary composition facilities the exploration of Native histories, cultures and contemporary concerns. Promotes new knowledge about American Indian people and sovereignty. Fulfills the Multicultural Course Requirement.

Asian Studies
AIS 101 Intro to Asian Studies

Tu 1:00-3:45PM
Instructor: Joan Mann [email protected]
Th 5:30-8:15PM

Introduction to the cultures of Asia and the discipline of Asian Studies for the beginning student.

Latin American Studies & Latina/o Studies
LAS 100 Intro Latina/o Studies
Tu Thu 1:00-2:15PM Instructor: Jorge Castrejon [email protected]
MW 10:00-11:15AM Instructor: David Barragan [email protected]
Web-based Instructor: David Barragan [email protected]
This course is designed to introduce students to the field of Latina/o Studies through the fields of history, sociology, political science, literature and education. Students will use multidisciplinary approaches to this field of study and intergrate the various fields to understand the complexity of researching this dynamic population. Satisfies Multicultural Requirement.

LAS 101 Intro Latin Ameican Studies
MW 8:30-9:45AM Instructor: Sondra Cosgrove [email protected]
W 11:30-2:15PM Instructor: David Barragan [email protected]
Interdisciplinary introduction to the culture, history, and political economy of contemporary Latin America. Examines the history of colonialism and independence, values and social structures, political institutions, and economic relations in the region. Satisfies the International and Social Science Requirement.

Gender and S*xuality Studies
WMST 101 Gender, Race, Class
TuTh 10:00-11:15AM; TuTh 1:00-2:15PM
Instructor: Danielle Roth-Johnson [email protected]
Introduction to the history, theories, methods, and issues that constitute the field of Gender and S*xuality Studies since its inception in the late 1960s. Begins with exploration of individual women’s experiences on the personal level. Considers diverse women’s issues locally, nationally, and globally. Fulfills the multicultural requirement.

WMST 302 Feminist Research Methodology
W 11:30-12:45PM Instructor: Erika Abad
Rigorous examination of the theory and application of feminist research methods. What are feminist research methods, and how do these methods differ from traditional research methods or “research on women?” Methods explored include: survey, interview, content analysis, experimental, oral history, case study, and action research. Prerequisites WMST 101, WMST 113 and WMST 301.

WMST 449 S*x & Social Arrangements
Tu Th11:30-12:45 Instructor: Sociology faculty
Examination of human sexuality in social contexts. Emphasis on cross-cultural and historical comparisons with themes dealing with deviant sexuality, po*******hy, and homosexuality. Prerequisites SOC 101 or SOC 102 or WMST 113. Satisfies Multicultural and Social Science Requirement. Same as SOC 449.

WMST 453 Gender Societies
MW1:00-2:15 PM Instructor: Sociology faculty
Examines the micro-social and political aspects of gender, including socialization into gender roles, same-sex, and cross-sex communications, interactions, and long-term relationships. Satisfies Multicultural and Social Science Requirement. Same as SOC 453.

WMST 488 Bodies, S*x, and Health
TuTH 11:30-12:45PM Instructor: Danielle Roth Johnson
Examines the impact of social, economic, scientific, and political issues on women’s mental and physical health. Particularly recommended for students contemplating careers in medicine, counseling, social work, or public health. Includes structural analysis, advocacy, and ethical implications, as well as gender, race, class, and sexuality. Prerequisites WMST 101 or WMST 113.

WMST 490/490 Special Topic: Radical Feminist and Q***r Love
M 11:30-2:15PM Instructor: Anita Revilla [email protected]
This course examines the socially constructed concept of "love" from a feminist and q***r (le***an, gay, bisexual, transgender, and sexually fluid) perspective. We will explore texts by radical feminist, q***r, and race scholars take a theoretical look at the way that "love" functions in our individual and collective lives.

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UNLV students, here are some classes that you might find interesting, offered by our colleagues in the history department:

HIST375: Race, Port & Cultural Politics
HIST432B: History of American Women since 1870
HIST434: Role of Cities in American History
HIST444: Latinos in the American West
HIST474: Latin American Ethnohistory
HIST227: Latin American History & Culture I

A new piece by our awesome colleague and history professor A.B. Wilkinson on the UNLV demonstrations and meeting the needs of marginalized students across the country. Check it out!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/a-b-wilkinson/im-a-working-class-mujer-_b_8624278.html

'I'm a Working Class Mujer': Listening to Marginalized Student Voices From California to Missouri to New York, structural oppression exists in every educational institution across the United States. It cannot be placed on a handful of people making prejudiced comments or simply pinned on outwardly racist, sexist, classist or homophobic actions. Systematic oppression i…

If you have not yet read about what happened at the University of Missouri, please do so. Below are some links. All of these incidents are pertinent to the racial and racist struggles many students and academics are encountering across the nation.

"Part of the reason why racist incidents persist -- swastikas scrawled in f***s, nooses hung from trees on campus, for instance -- is because universities are failing to do what they do best: teach. At their best, colleges and universities are places where students and faculty can come together to question and think critically about the world we live in. But when it comes to the topic of race, things get touchy. Rather than teach and foster dialogue, universities often take the easier but ultimately ineffective path to just issue apologies and create committees."

One Class all Students Should Take
http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/10/opinions/laguna-race-ethnic-studies-university/index.html

Racial climate at MU: A timeline of incidents this fall
http://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/higher_education/racial-climate-at-mu-a-timeline-of-incidents-to-date/article_0c96f986-84c6-11e5-a38f-2bd0aab0bf74.html

How the Missouri football team just took down its university president
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/11/09/missouri-football-players-and-the-untapped-political-power-of-the-college-student-athlete/?postshare=3651447087629818

With $1 million at stake, U. of Missouri’s president now taking protests seriously
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/11/09/with-1-million-at-stake-u-of-missouris-president-now-taking-protests-seriously/?tid=sm_fb

University of Missouri president and chancellor step down amid race row
http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/09/us/missouri-football-players-protest-president-resigns/index.html?sr=fbCNN110915missouri-football-players-protest-president-resigns0427PMVODtopLink&linkId=18616579

http://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/higher_education/wolfe-out-as-um-president/article_ed75afb0-86fb-11e5-9e17-df8eb9362f14.html

3 Lessons From University of Missouri President Tim Wolfe’s Resignation
http://www.thenation.com/article/3-lessons-from-university-of-missouri-president-tim-wolfes-resignation/

University of Missouri Faculty Stages Walkout as Racism Protests Widen
http://time.com/4104562/missouri-mizzou-faculty-walkout-racism/

Opinion: One class all students should take - CNN.com Students introduced to history of scholarship in race and ethnic studies by trained faculty are given the tools to understand issues of deep national relevance.

Friends, the NACCS proposal conference deadline is coming up, don't miss it folks.

National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies

NACCS 43 • April 6-9, 2016 • Denver, CO

¡Chicana/o Power!
Transforming Chicana/o Activism, Discourse and Scholarship into Power

Chicana/o Power represents the essence and foundation of our discipline. Through disciplinary self-reflection, we merge theory and practice to create a space where our scholarship and social engagement challenges, transforms and repudiates dominant power structures.

As the mainstream escalates their rhetoric and attacks on Chicana/o, immigrant, LGBTQ, and indigenous communities and environments, we say, ¡Ya Basta! NACCS must continue to push the boundaries of emancipatory scholarship and activism that combats all forms of systemic structural violence. We must continue to be a safe, yet contested space – de respeto – where we can reflect, re-envision and recommit as students, teachers, scholars, and activists and as members of multiple communities. Our aim is to continue to transform our energies to tap our collective power to ignite a new era of equity through social justice work.

We must be deliberate and strategic in the ways we teach, study, examine, and carry out our individual, collective, and group actions to contest this new “era of violence.” Our NACCS community must continue to defy the boundaries that stifle and confine us to stereotypes and deficient constructs vis-à-vis race, class, gender, sexuality and other social markers.

NACCS 2016, en Denver, calls for papers and presentations from multi-disciplinary approaches and social movements, academic and practitioners of social change, that address, but are not limited to:

The institutional approaches anti-immigrant/anti Latino/a sentiments and actions

The continuous and constantly changing working class movements within Chicana/o communities

Institutional forms of social injustices and displacement

Indigeneity and Decolonization

Social justice struggles –both historical and contemporary reflected in recent social and political shifts

Twenty-first Century Identities rooted in Race/Ethnicity and Assimilation

Popular Resistance

Social Media Movements and Critiques

Empire Building

Submit today.

Go to www.NACCS.org for all conference information. Like us on Facebook!

Submissions due by October 15, 2015.
Forthcoming Deadlines: Awards details available at naccs.org
Cervantes Student Premio. October 11.
Immigrant Student Beca: October 18.
Castañeda Prize: Nominations November 1.

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And tonight, I was part of a fierce Chican@ activist scholar panel for Latina/o Heritage Month at UNLV. Check out the events folks...
"Oye mi Canto"

Reminder, tomorrow Claudia Rodriguez will be speaking and sharing with us at UNLV. Please join us at 5:30 pm in the student union, room 211.

From the Center for Social Justice:
We have our first event in the Stand Up. Speak Out. Series coming up next week. The event will be taking place on Tuesday, September 22nd at 5:30PM in SU 211. The Stand Up. Speak Out. event series invites students to come learn about a social justice issue that is affecting a specific social identity within our community. The series is aligned with the various heritage months that happen throughout the year. Stand Up. Speak Out. uses various forms of communication to talk about social justice such as panels, speakers, movies, focus group dialogues, etc. Participants engage in the process of accountability and advocacy so they can support the issue and/or community highlighted for the month.

Please see below for Claudia's bio:

Claudia Rodríguez, is a writer/performer from Compton, she received her MFA in creative writing from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). She recently published her first collection of poetry “Everybody’s Bread,” with Korima Press. Her work has appeared in Baby Remember My Name: An Anthology of New Q***r Girl Writing. Edited by Michelle Tea. Caroll and Graf 2006, Blithe House Quarterly Fall 2005, Chicana/Latina Studies: the journal of MALCS Fall 2004 Issue, Trepan, Tongues Magazine, The Los Angeles Gay and Le***an Latino Arts Anthology, and Westwind: a Journal of Critical Studies out of UCLA. Claudia is a recipient of an “Artists in Residency Grant,” from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and produced the chapbook “Our Bodies, Our Souls,” featuring the prose/poetry of Transgender Latina immigrant women. She has taught creative writing at Loyola Marymount University and UCLA and is a founding member of the Butchlalis de Panochtitlan (BdP) is a sketch-driven performance/ installation/video ensemble (now defunct).
Claudia Rodriguez, MFA http://rodriguezwriter.blogspot.com

20 Latino PBS Movies You Can Stream for Free During Hispanic Heritage Month PBS has shown a commitment to Latinos over the years, so we put together a list of the network's best films including their 4-hour epic doc on Latin music.

Wow, if only this could also be reflected in faculty and a fraction of administration...

http://www.unlv.edu/news/release/unlv-ranked-second-most-diverse-campus-nation

http://www.unlv.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1210_width/public/releases/main-images/nc_D70415_11.jpg?itok=3kehGNqw×tamp=1441816557

Friends, check out this awesome event open to all. I will be the opening keynote speaker. "Seeking Justice through Art"

Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/seeking-justice-through-art-a-convergence-of-creatives-artists-tickets-17872881269