“Warriors, Not Victims”: Precious Knowledge, the Fight for Ethnic Studies, and Accountability to the #MeToo Movement
Author(s) -
Vani Kannan,
Shyrlene Hernandez,
Alexis Martinez
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the radical teacher
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1941-0832
pISSN - 0191-4847
DOI - 10.5195/rt.2020.775
Subject(s) - accountability , ethnic group , movement (music) , class (philosophy) , social movement , political science , sociology , media studies , gender studies , public relations , law , art , aesthetics , artificial intelligence , politics , computer science
This article shares an upper-division writing course's struggle to be accountable to both the #MeToo movement and the fight for Ethnic Studies in Tucson. These movements collided in our class after we planned a campus screening of the film PRECIOUS KNOWLEDGE, which chronicles the student-led movement to save the Tucson High School Mexican American studies program, and then received news that the director had sexually assaulted one of the student-activists in the film. In this article, collaboratively-written by the professor teaching the course and two students in it, we share our accountability process, and concrete methods for social-movement-accountability in the writing classroom.
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