Crossing the BLVD study guide for professors and teachers

How to Bring Crossing the BLVD to You Book/Audio CD Use Crossing the BLVD in the classroom. "If you are interested in visual culture, oral history, class and culture, music, immigra- tion, ethnicity, urban history, race, queer studies, narrative and storytelling, gender or transnationalism and globalization, you will find touchstones for your own thinking and your classroom discussions..." Kristen Swinth, American Quarterly Lectures Lectures on Immigration and Diversity, Law and Refugee Rights, Race, Ethics and Politics in Documentary Art Projects, Art of the Book, Photography and Design, Performing Across Cultures, Oral History, Cultural Identity and the Arts, Art of the Interview. Workshops Storytelling and Interviewing Techniques, Art of the Book,Theatre and Social Justice, Multimedia Art and Social Justice, Performance and Diversity, Radio: the art of storytelling and interviewing for on air production. Panel Discussions We tailor panel discussions at universities by working in collaboration with the presenting university, utilizing the faculty and students on campus to present Public Dialogues in the context of Crossing the BLVD material, moderated by Judith Sloan. When university or college is within driving distance of New York City, we can include Crossing the BLVD participants. Discussions can focus on: The Changing Face of America • Immigration: Old and New • Impact of Post 9/11 Laws • Refugee Rights and Human Rights • Cross-Cultural and Cross-Religious Dialogues • Immigration and Race • U.S. Foreign Policy, War/Peace and Migration • Art and Social Change The Crossing the BLVD programming has been successful in creating collaborations between disciplines on campuses and between Universities and local community organizations in the following areas. • Political Science, Anthropology, Sociology, Religion, Oral History, Immigration • Asian Pacific American, Middle Eastern, Latino/a, Caribbean, Africana Studies • American/Ethnic/Cultural Studies • Performance/Media/Communication Studies • Photography/Visual Arts/Artist Books • Graphic Design/Music and Sound/Documentary Performance/Residency Visiting professor Judith Sloan teaches master classes in performing oral histories and directs a production of Crossing the BLVD including a cast of students, university staff and professors and community members. This performance becomes a community- wide event on campus. Exhibition Exhibition suggested for 12-week period minimum. Shorter periods negotiable. Available January 2015 and forward.

Kalfou, 2017

This article discusses the impact of George J. Sánchez’s keynote address “Working at the Crossroads” in making collaborative cross-border projects more academically legitimate in American studies and associated disciplines. The keynote and his ongoing administrative labor model the power of public collaborative work to shift research narratives. “Working at the Crossroads” demonstrated how historians can be involved—as historians—in a variety of social movements, and pointed to the ways these interactions can, and maybe should, shape research trajectories. It provided a key blueprint and key examples for doing historically informed Latina/o studies scholarship with people working outside the university. Judging by the success of Sánchez’s work with Boyle Heights and East LA, projects need to establish multiple entry points, reward participants at all levels, and connect people across generations. I then discuss how I sought to emulate George Sánchez’s proposals in my own work through partnering with labor organizations, developing biographical public art projects with students, and archiving social and cultural histories. His keynote address made a back-and-forth movement between home communities and academic labor seem easy and professionally rewarding as well as politically necessary, especially in public universities.

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What does it take to cross a border? A reader., 2019

"What does it take to cross a border? On borders, bodies and performance" was a four-day programme that took place at ifa Gallery Berlin from February 21-24 2019 (www.ifa.de). It turned the exhibition space into a space of body- and movement-based encounters in which audiences were invited to address individually or collectively the experience of the border in an entangled series of performances, encounters and workshops. The present reader serves as a companion through this temporary set-up, gathering writings and visual materials, practice-based scores, poetic and theoretical voices by the participating team of artists, invited contributors and other sources. With original contributions by QUARTO, deufert + plischke, Anne Juren, Farah Saleh, Diego Agullo, Sabina Holzer, Annika Niemann, and Sandra Noeth. Curator Performance Program and Editor: Sandra Noeth Curator Education Lab: Annika Niemann With the support of the Federal Agency of Civic Education.

Migration Mobilities Bristol Blog, 2019

The first workshop of the MMB research challenge Bodies, Borders, Justice, entitled Arts against racism and borders, was held in the evening of the past 13 May. A dozen academics from arts and humanities, policy studies, sociology and law gathered in the welcoming Verdon Smith Room overlooking the Royal Fort Gardens to discuss the possibilities of the arts, and particularly the creativity of migrants themselves, to shape public discourses and perceptions of free movement. This is particularly important in xenophobic times which bring to the fore mobility researchers' ethical duty to engage with the widest possible range of stakeholders.

Studies in the Literary Imagination, 2003

A thought-provoking collection of essays about transcending cultural borders *Best Books of 2011 by The Hispanic Reader *Bronze Award for Essays, ForeWord Review's Book of the Year Awards *2 nd Place for Best Biography in English, International Latino Book Awards "On good days I feel I am a bridge. On bad days I just feel alone," Sergio Troncoso writes in this riveting collection of sixteen personal essays in which he seeks to connect the humanity of his Mexican family to people he meets on the East Coast, including his wife's Jewish kin. Raised in a home steps from the Mexican border in El Paso, Texas, Troncoso crossed what seemed an even more imposing border when he left home to attend Harvard College. "I was torn," he writes, "between the people I loved at home and the ideas I devoured away from home." Troncoso writes to examine his life and to create meaning from the disparate worlds he inhabits and the borders he has crossed. In "Letter to My Young Sons," he documents the terror of his wife's breast cancer diagnosis and the ups and downs of her surgery and treatment. Other essays explore interfaith marriage and evolving gender roles as Troncoso becomes a husband and father. A Christmas vacation in Ysleta leads to a severe argument with his father and reflection about machismo and independence within immigrant families. In "Fresh Challah," Troncoso explores the impact his wife's Jewish heritage and religion have on his Mexican-American identity.

2019

This seminar closely examines historical and contemporary situations of multiculturalism, including globalization, migration, and urban diversification. It is designed to afford NJIT students the ability to encounter and analyze ideas about multiculturalism and "intercultural relations", both in artistic representations (i.e. literature, film) and in scientific study (i.e. sociological/historical analyses). Students' researched and written work in this course ranges from analysis of fiction to consideration of cultural diversity in urban planning and the development of technologies and technological systems. The culmination of the course is a research project of the student's own design, reflecting course themes in relation to his or her field of study and/or the professional sectors he or she will be entering upon graduation. Course overview & curriculum: A common thread among the many definitions of multiculturalism is the emphasis on relationships formed between various cultures. These relationships are part of our everyday, globalizing experiences, both personally and professionally. Through our coursework, we will explore these relationships as they manifest through the arts, but also as they have been observed by scientific study. The first section of the course examines how selected authors define and reflect on relevant terms, from "culture" / "multiculturalism" to race and globalization. The second section of the course explores the politics of representation, especially considering how the methodologies of disciplines such as history and sociology impact those politics. In the third section of the course, we will examine primary source material that applies ideas and concepts learned from sections 1 and 2. The final section of the course addresses migrationboth real and fictionaland considers its relevancy to personal and professional contexts. The course will close with virtual presentations of the ongoing research project. Works to be studied include short stories, essays, empirical research studies and films by several international authors and activists, including Ta-Nehisi Coates, Toni Morrison, Amy Tan and. Prerequisites for this class include completion of the GUR in English (3 credits), Cultural History (6 credits), Basic-Social Sciences (6 credits) and either the Lit/Hist/Phil/STS (3 credits) or the Open Elective in Humanities and Social Science (3 credits).

Estoy haciendo fila, haciendo fila, estoy haciendo fila para salir del país. Es algo natural, cosa de todos los días. A mi izquierda, una familia en una vagoneta Nissan; a mi derecha, un gringo de lentes oscuros en un Mitsubishi deportivo. Por el retrovisor veo a una muchacha en un Volkswagen. Adelante, un Toyota. Vamos a salir del país y es algo natural, cosa de todos los días.

Transnational Narratives of Migration and Exile, 2021

This chapter focuses on contemporary graphic novels that enact the practices related to the porosity of the US-Mexican border in combination with the traumatic aspects of migration. Despite their common focus on the spatial representation, most novels, including Ruins by Kuper (2015) and Feeding Ground by Lang, Lapinski and Mangun (2011), turn into creative mono-and multilingual narratives where the use of English prevails. Others, such as Tan's The Arrival (2006), become a wordless depiction in which pictograms and other graphics establish an unsettling relationship between characters and readers. Keywords graphic novels | border | spatiality | migration | multilingualism REDEFINING THE BORDER? Graphic narratives (Eisner, 2008, p. xvii) are often read as "literary experiences that are deceptively immediate" (Bladow, 2019, pp. 39-40), even when they deal with difficult topics. It is their multimodal nature that construes meaning-making in collaboration with the reader, since the combination of the visual, verbal, and audio modes serves the textual function of the narrative (Fisher Davies, 2019). In light of this, it would be highly interesting to analyze how this medium, which addresses a wider audience as opposed to exclusively textual narratives, constructs the border; contrary to the (documentary) film genre, it has not been sufficiently studied. Although scholars and other critics working at the intersection of border studies, Latino studies, and comic studies have hitherto noted "that it is common for mainstream comics to ignore borders" while maintaining a Eurocentric perspective (Montes, 2016, p. 278), they nonetheless recognize that mainstream comics problematize ethnic representation by particularizing character iconography clearly within the limited space of the given narration (Royal, 2007, p. 9). Though at the same time, they also agree upon the fact that, given their long-form dimen-7. Migration: Crossing borders in graphic enactments