Digital Journal #2
Hi Folks,
Below you will find instructions for your second digital journal. I have attached some guiding questions for each of the topics we have talked about from the previous weeks. You don’t have to answer them if you don’t want to but use them as examples to help you with the creation of your journal. Please connect to the readings in your posts.
Narrating Cross-Border Migration
- How do the stories reveal the role of the U.S.–Mexico border as more than just a line on a map?
- What risks did migrants face in their journeys, and how did they respond to them?
- What parts of migration stories are usually missing in media or politics that appear in these readings?
The Invisible Workers of the U.S
- How do these dynamics reflect larger systems of racial or economic inequality?
- Do you see echoes of the Bracero Program in today’s immigrant labor systems (farmworkers, guest worker visas, etc.)?
- Did anything in the reading connect to your own family/community history with work or migration?
Colonialism and imperialism Chela Sandoval
- How does Sandoval’s framework connect to marginalized groups who must navigate multiple systems of oppression?
- What does Sandoval mean by “U.S. Third World Feminism”?
- Have you ever had to “shift” your way of thinking, acting, or speaking to navigate different spaces (home, school, work)? (Forms of code switching)
La Mestiza Consciousness Gloria Anzaluda
What does Anzaldúa mean by “mestiza consciousness”?
How does it challenge binary ways of thinking (like either/or, us/them, male/female)?
Anzaldúa sees new identities and knowledge emerging from mixing cultures, languages, and traditions. How does this creativity help resist oppression and imagine new futures?
