Experiential Learning Opportunity Memo
Watch ONE of the talks listed below and write a 1-2 page paper on the experience. Include a 1-2 paragraph summary (use your senses and take notes while participating in the ELO if possible), 1 paragraph analysis (how does this relate to topics/ themes from CAP 200), and a 1-paragraph reflection (what do you think/ feel about the experience?). College-level writing is required for all written work.
Please click on the rubric below to see how your ELO will be assessed.
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User: n/a – Added: 6/4/20
This episode focuses on the murders of Breonna Taylor, Armaud Arbery, and George Floyd.
Speakers:
KEITH ELLISON – Minnesota Attorney General and Lead Prosecutor in George Floyd Case
ALICIA GARZA – Co-Founder of Black Lives Matter, Principal at Black Futures Lab, and Special Projects Director at the National Domestic Workers Alliance
DEVON CARBADO – Legal scholar in Critical Race Studies scholar at UCLA School of Law and the author, with Mitu Gulati of Action White? Rethinking Race in “Post-Racial” America
MARIA MOORE – Member of the #SayHerName Family Network and the sister of Kayla Moore, a Black transgender woman killed by Berkley police
ROBIN D.G. KELLEY – Professor of American History at UCLA and the author of Race Rebels: Culture Politics and the Black Working Class, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination, and “Thelonious Monk: His Story, His Song, His Times.”
The Fire This Time: The New Uprising Against Racism and Police Violence
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User: n/a – Added: 6/7/20
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(Pt 5) Under the Blacklight: The Intersectional Vulnerabilities that COVID Lays Bare
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User: n/a – Added: 4/23/20
This episode of “Under the Blacklight” features: David Blight — Professor of History, African American Studies, and American Studies, Yale University; Pulitzer Prize Winning Author of Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom Eduardo Bonilla-Silva — Professor, Duke University; President of the American Sociological Association; Author of Racism Without Racists Kimberlé Crenshaw — AAPF Co-Founder & Executive Director; Founder & Director of the Columbia Center for Intersectionality and Social Policy Studies; Professor of Law, Columbia & UCLA William Darity Jr. — Economist; Professor of Public Policy, Duke University; Director, Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity Ibram X. Kendi — Professor, American University; Author of Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America Kate Manne — Professor of Philosophy, Cornell University; Author of Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny
This episode focuses on COVID-19.
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