Teaching Commons Archive

Spring 2017 Events

Mental Health Among CSUN Students

•  Critical Consciousness, Accountability and Empowerment: Key Processes for Helping Families Heal: P. Hernandez, R. Almeida & K. Dolan-Del Vecchio
•  From the Roots Up: The Story of the Three Sisters - Sacred Circle
•  Global Health Crisis: Can Indigenous Healing Practices Offer a Valuable Resource - Lynne Marks
•  Including Decolonization in Social Work Education and Practice - Andrea Tamburro
•  Indigenous Healing Practices among Rural Elderly African Americans - Debra A. Harley
•  Native American Postcolonial Psychology - E. Duran & B. Duran
•  Nepantla: A Borderland Epistemology - Pilar Hernandez-Wolfe
•  A New Musical Score, A Horizon and Possibilities for Meaning Making: A Decolonization Paradigm - Pilar Hernandez-Wolfe

Hunger and Homelessness Among CSUN Students

• https://presspage-production-content.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/1487/cohomelessstudy.pdf?10000
• https://www.csun.edu/mic/csun-food-pantry
• https://www.csun.edu/womens-research-resource-center
• https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-cal-state-homeless-adv-snap-story.html
• https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/college-students-difficult-test-may-basic-survival

Cultural Community Wealth through De'VIA (Deaf Art)

• Investigating Deaf Visual Art
• http://www.deafart.org/Deaf_Art_/deaf_art_.html
• http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/topics/devia.htm

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Fall 2016 Events

Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women

• Film: When Will the Punishment End? 
•  "Prison Abolition in Practice" by Setsu Shigematsu

Self-Help Graphics and the Art of Activism + Dia de los Muertos

Classroom Activity

•  "Nicho/Cajita" Project - Creating Sacred Space by Prof. Cervantez, Dept. of Chicana/o Studies

Readings

•  "Citizen of the Universe" by AnaLouise Keating
•  "'Matriz sin tumba': The Trash Goddess and the Healing Matrix of Gloria Anzaldua's Reclaimed Womb"" by George Hartley
•  "Spirit Glyphs: Reimagining Art and Artist in the Work of Chicana Tlamatinime" by Laura E. Perez
•  "Gloria Anzaldfia’s Mestiza Pain: Mexican Sacrifice, Chicana Embodiment, and Feminist Politics" by Suzanne Bost
•  "Communing with the Dead - Spiritual and Cultural Healing in Chicano/a Communities" by Lara Medina

Environmental Justice

Readings

•  "Toward a Critical Environmental Justice" by David Pellow
•  Environmental Privilege
•  Geographies of Race and Ethnicity
•  Mexican American Women Grassroots Community Activists
•  Nativism Environmental Movement
•  Racial Formation, Environmental Racism and the Emergence of Silicon Valley
•  Rethinking White Privilege
•  South Central Farmers

Erasing the Border/Borrando la frontera

Readings

•  "The Policy of Border Fencing between the United States and Mexico" by Donna Lybecker

Videos

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOa-5x0YqVA
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMDCpKRCScI

News Articles

• https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2016/04/erasing-the-border/477891/
• https://remezcla.com/features/culture/borrando-la-frontera-project-of-ana-teresa-fernandez/
• https://www.kqed.org/arts/11527370/women-to-watch-ana-teresa-fernandez/ 

Images

• https://anateresafernandez.com/borrando-la-barda-tijuana-mexico/

Journey North/Hacia el Norte Installation

Readings

•  “Border Aesthetics: The Politics of Mexican Immigration Film and Art” by María Herrera-Sobek
•  “Transborder Art Activism and the U.S.-Mexico Border: Analyzing “Artscapes” as Forms of Resistance and Cultural Production in the Frame of Globalization” by Christina Aushana

Music Videos

• Aloe Blacc “Wake Me Up” (English)
• B-Side Players “Nuestras Demandas” (Spanish)
• Calle 13 “Pa’l Norte” (Spanish)
• Calle 13 “Latinoamerica” (Spanish)
• Manu Chao “Clandestino” (Spanish)
• Ricardo Arjona “Mojado” (Spanish)
• Ricardo Arjona “Si el Norte Fuera el Sur” (Spanish)
• La Santa Cecilia “El Hielo” (Spanish)

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Spring 2016 Events

Queering Migration: Moving Toward Transformative Change

•  Queering Migration and Citizenship by Eithne Luibheid
•  Looking Like a Lesbian: Sexual Monitoring at the U.S. - Mexico Border by Eithne Luibheid
•  Trans/Migrant: Christina Madrazo's All-American Story by Alisa Solomon

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Fall 2015 Events

Ellen Bravo

• Ellen Bravo Official Website
• Ellen Bravo Video
• Again and Again Novel

Tall Paul Event

Non-Academic

• https://ictnews.org/archive/it-s-a-bird-it-s-a-plane-it-s-supaman-a-native-hip-hop-hero
• https://ictnews.org/archive/ever-heard-of-throatboxing-this-young-inuits-vocal-skills-will-amaze-you
• https://ictnews.org/archive/life-is-so-great-12-uplifting-hip-hop-videos-by-native-americans
• https://gawker.com/breakdances-with-wolves-when-hip-hop-came-to-indian-re-1570730772

Academic

•  Jarrett Martineau. An Interview with Tania Willard on Beat Nation, Indigenous Curation and Changing the World Through Art
•  Janell Navarro. Solariz-ing Native Hip-Hop: Native Feminist Land Ethics and Cultural Resistance
•  Janell Navarro. WORD: Hip-Hop, Language, and Indigeneity in the Americas
•  John Troutman. Indian Blues: The Indigenization of American Popular Music
• Jasiri X.  “Motivation and Mission (Don’t Let Them Get Away With Murder)” 
  
• SCZ.  “Remixing: Decolonial Strategies in Cultural Production”
  
• Kyle Mays.  “Can We Live – And Be Modern?: Decolonization, Indigenous Modernity, and Hip Hop” 
  
• Jenell Navarro.  “Remixing Education: Tall Paul’s Contributions to Decolonizing the Classroom” 
  
• Susan Blight.  “Where You’re From and Where You’re At: Place, Space, and the Assertion of Nationhood in Shibastik’s “Moose River”
  
• Frank Waln.  “Indigenous Hip Hop and Performance as Resurgence” 
  
• Bryce Hensen. “Burning the Imperialist Nostalgia: The Native Urban Renaissance in North America”
  
• Mark Campbell.  “Sonic Intimacies: On Djing Better Futures” 
  
• Chandni Desai.  “Trackin’ settler colonial erasures in Palestine: Decolonizing Zionist toponymy”
  
• Lindsay Knight.  “Rhyming Out the Future: Reclaiming Identity Through Indigenous Hip Hop”
• Mahlikah Awe:ri.  “Right Level, Next Level: Indigenizing Hip Hop”
  
• Damon Sajnani.  “HipHop’s Origins as Organic Decolonization”