Unit 6: The Artistic, Economic, Social Life of the Latinx Community

Class 15: Literature, Music and Visual Arts I

To Read:

To Watch:

Denise Frohman, “Accents”

Class 16: Education

To Read:

To Watch : Real Women Have Curves (2002)

Class 17: Labor, Income and Poverty

Assignment: Reading Response 3

To Read:

  • Bodega dreams. Round 7-9
  • Rogelio, Sáenz and Maria Cristina Morales. Latinos in the United States: diversity and change. John Wiley & Sons, 2015.- Chapter 7: 
  • Mattingly and Pedroza. “Why Isn’t the Hispanic Poverty Rate Rising?”

To Listen:

Class 18: Politics and Representation

To Read:

  • Rogelio, Sáenz and Maria Cristina Morales. Latinos in the United States: diversity and change. John Wiley & Sons, 2015.
    • Chapter 5
    • Chapter 12