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Teaching about Race and Racism Across the Disciplines

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 19.02.03

Unit Guide

Latinx History

Nataliya Braginsky

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Unit 2 – Activities:

This unit presents an excellent opportunity to visit the Yale Art Gallery and examine the artifacts in the Art of Ancient Americas. For educators who do not live in the New Haven area, I encourage you to explore your local museum and resources, as well. Teachers should request that docents bring students to specific artifacts that have a direct connection to civilizations, cultures, histories, and/or practices they learned about in class. Students should also have framing questions to help them critique the exhibit, and teachers must expose students to the concept that museums are not neutral prior to this visit.
The final project for this unit will be to make connections between the past the present. Another dominant narrative we have been socialized into believing is the idea that indigenous people from the Americas no longer exist, which of course is not true. Students will analyze writing, music, and art by folks who identify as indigenous Latinxs. They will analyze and annotate this work, putting it in conversation with another artifact, be it the dominant narrative that the artwork disproves, a primary source, an artifact referenced in the piece, or original artwork produced by the student. Both artifacts will be displayed in a gallery walk/chalk talk, where students can see each other’s chosen pieces and analyses, and can engage with them through writing on chart paper posted at each station. Students may find their own artists for this project, or choose from the preliminary list below:
1. Aztlan
2. Olmeca
3. MAIX

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