- Telling It
- East Quad Garden
- Freedom House Detroit
- Spanish Language Internship Program
- PALMA
- Semester in Detroit
- Prison Creative Arts Project
- Center for World Performance Studies
- Shakespeare in the Arb
- Migrant Worker Education Program
- Why I Fight, or Team Wristband
- The Community of Food, Society & Justice Conference, October 2019
- Robertson Lecture
RCSTP 362/AMCULT 395/LATINO 365
Migrants: Understanding the Inequities in the US Agricultural Workforce (WINTER 2024: W/F 11:30 – 1:00)
This interactive seminar introduces students to the agricultural migrant community in the United States, starting with a historical overview demonstrating its reliance on minority groups to harvest the crops and focusing primarily on the Hispanic community, which since the 1970s has comprised the majority of farmworkers in the US.
Materials explore the systemic inequity experienced by migrant workers and analyze the economic and political factors that perpetuate it, using structural violence, symbolic violence, and clinical gaze (Bourdieu) as well as Critical Race Theory as frameworks for analysis. Students take a lead role in preparing academic readings and listening to presenters, as well as experimenting with different teaching techniques, such as visualizations, games, interactive presentations, and art/dramatizations.
Course offered in Winter terms (W/F 11:30 – 1:00).
For more information, please contact Mabel Rodriguez at mrodri@umich.edu
