Political Culture Social Capital and the Arts Terry Clark
Chicago Youth Initiating Alter, a local grouping composed of students and teachers organizing for social justice initiatives, hosted the 2009 Social Justice Student Expo at the UIC campus on Friday, May 22. I attended as a chaperon with a student group from Little Village Lawndale's Social Justice High School.
Throughout the twenty-four hours, several hundred high schoolhouse and junior high students led or attended workshops and presented research nearly topics ranging from Renaissance 2010 to the foreclosure crisis. I attended a workshop about the controversial Willie Lynch letter and the unsourced Let'southward Make a Slave text that often accompanies it. Rather than using these texts equally basis for a historical lecture, the students used them every bit a starting bespeak to examine social power and oppression. The presenters and the audience handled the hard source material maturely and pushed to brand it relevant to their lived experience -- fulfilling the expo's goal of collaborative teaching and learning about social justice.
At the end of the day, students regrouped for a "talent prove," sharing poetry, spoken word pieces, songs, and even some very impressive footwork, both from audience members and a Chicago footwork troupe, the FootworKINGZ.
The expo showed off the best qualities of Chicago youth -- creativity, intelligence, self-reflection, energy, and compassion.
Speaking as a future sometime student of the University, I'k already feeling nostalgia for the 7th-week thrill of seeing new courses populate the timeschedules. These courses haven't necessarily signed on to participate with Chicago Studies, just to study Chicago they seem similar a expert bet!
From the anthropology department:
ANTH 21312 Whiteness & Ability: Critical Perspectives on Race, Grade, & Privilege in the US, Andrew Graan
ANTH 34000 Intro to Chicago Anthropology (staff)
From the comparative race studies department:
CRPC 27200 African-American History to 1877, Thomas Holt
CRPC 27301 Intro to Blackness Chicago, 1895-2005, Adam Green
CRPC 28112 Asian Americans & The Legacies of War, Theresa Mah
From the economics department:
ECON 22200 Topics:American History, David W Galenson
From the English department:
ENGL 22814 Contemporary Native American Literature, Marie Satya McDonough
ENGL 25923 Geographis of Modernism, Jonathan Geltner
ENGL 28919 Modern Literature: Diaspora/Homecoming, Jan Schwarz
From the ecology studies department:
ENST 24701 U.Southward. Ecology Policy, Raymond Lodato
ENST 26100 Roots of Mod American Metropolis, Michael Conzen
From the gender studies department:
GNDR 21902 Women in American Jewish History, Sarah Imhoff
From the geography department:
GEOG 27601 History Colloquium: Hyde Park & Chicago'south South Side equally Celebrated Laboratory, Kathleen Conzen
From the history department:
HIST 47501 Paris and Chicago, 1870-1930, Jan Goldstein and Kathleen Conzen
From the philosophy department:
PHIL 22209 Philosophies of Environmentalism & Sustainability, Barton Schultz
From the public policy department:
PBPL 24800 Urban Policy Analysis, Terry Clark
From the folklore section:
SOCI 20103 Social Stratification, Ross Stolzenberg
SOCI 20184 Political Culture, Social Capital, and The Arts, Terry Clark
SOCI 30303 Urban Landscape As Social Text
In your ideal schedule (one where y'all've finished your core), which would you take?
May 1, 1886 marked the first day of a peaceful labor protest in Chicago, led past workers demanding an eight-hour work twenty-four hour period. This event is commemorated effectually the world as International Workers' Day. Chicagoans engage by organizing an almanac march and rally. This year some ii,000 people braved bad weather condition and the public wellness worries of swine flu to march two-and-a-half miles from Union Park to Daley Plaza. The organizers of the rally focused on bug of immigration reform, inviting speakers and organizations from many of Chicagoland's immigrant and progressive groups. Students from Kelly Loftier School in Brighton Park and Social Justice High School in Petty Village, members of the Coalition of African Arab Asian European and Latino Immigrants of Illinois, Workers United, Gay Liberation Network, and dozens of other groups came together to celebrate their shared history and common goals, and call for decisive politcal activity regarding comprehensive clearing reform. One of the most-repeated cheers of the afternoon was a potent bear witness of solidarity with the city's large Chicano and Latino immigrant population, "Obama escucha: estamos en la lucha" (Obama, mind: we are in the struggle).
From my place in line few opponents were visible, and the event was positive, peaceful, and productive. Chicagoist has a nice selection of pictures from the day, while Progress Illinois, the Tribune, and the ChiTown Daily News repoort on the effect.
Source: https://blogs.uchicago.edu/chicagostudies/2009/05/
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