MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
28
Intro •
Diagnostic Essay
Monroe DoctrineManifest Destiny
Note: Reading Notes (1+ pages typed) due each day except on days papers are due.
29
Manifest Destiny, Wounded Knee, & Guantánamo
Wounded Knee Photos [download & print]
31
Black Elk Speaks chapters 1-5
 
31
Black Elk Speaks
ch. 7; 10; 14-18
 
4
Reading Day: No Class
5
Black Elk Speaks
ch. 19-postscript
6
Ceremony to 50
7
Ceremony to 99
 
11
Ceremony complete

 

12
Ceremony Essays
"The Function of the Landscape"
"Special Problems in Teaching Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony"
"Native North America: The Political Economy of Radioactive Colonialism"
13
In-Class Essay
14
The Farming of Bones
pp. 1-99
Video: Road to Guantánamo
18
The Farming of Bones
pp. 100-250
Trujillo
Parsley Massacre
19
The Farming of Bones
pp. 251-310
US in Haiti 1
US in DR 1
US in DR 2
20
Mother Tongue
to 107
Video: Voces Inocentes
Demetria Martínez x
Voices from the Gaps
GroovDigit
Liberation Theology
Farabundo Martí
Subaltern & Testimonio
21
Mother Tongue
complete
El Salvador 1
Civil War
FMLN
Óscar Romero
Sanctuary Movement 1
Sanctuary Movement 2
From Central America to Iraq
25
Sutras of Abu Ghraib xx
Abu Ghraib 1
Photos
26
Sutras of Abu Ghraib xx
27
Final Workshop
28
FINAL PAPER due

Note: Additional background readings will be added as the quarter continues.