Contemporary Literature
The decade in which the contemporary era emerges
What is the 1980s?
What ethnic studies emerged from
What are political struggles?
This is what/when Latinx Studies emerged from
What is activism in the 1960s and 1970s?
The term for people living in the same moment yet experiencing time differently
What is multitemporality?
These two colleges had student-led strikes in 1968 for Civil Rights
What are San Francisco State University & University of California (Berkeley)?
This labor leader co-founded the United Farm Workers in the Latinx civil rights movement
Who is Cesar Chavez?
The origin of contemporary production
What is many locations simultaneously?
Ethnic studies insist that identity is never this ____ or this ______
Singular or Isolated
This term refers to people of Latin American origin living outside their homeland
What is diaspora?
The three key elements of the contemporary
What are global scope, multiplicity of media & emphasis on shared present?
This is how Ethnic Studies differs from African American studies and Asian American Studies
It engages many forms of difference and otherness simultaneously
This concept describes how knowledge production has historically excluded marginalized voices
What is epistemic exclusion?
The political and economic trends that the contemporary responds to
What are neoliberalism and late stage capitalism?
This is what an Ethnic Studies approach to literature also emphasizes
What is interdisciplinarity?
These student walkouts in Los Angeles protested unequal education for Mexican-American students
What are the Chicano Blowouts?