How has there been change over time in the LGBTQ2 Movement?

Week Four Analysis and Reflection
Please read this Criteria as many people have questions that are answered herein:
A. Write from a place of knowledge AFTER you have completed the other parts of the module. Your analysis is a culminating event.
B. Show Depth of Thought, Critical Analysis, and Learning in your Writing.
C. Use your own words.
D. You may use outside sources. Properly cite if you use other people’s words or ideas.
E. At a minimum write 500-750 MEANINGFUL words that show that you are learning. This is a minimum and you are welcome to write as much as you’d like.
F. Use 12 pt. font, double spaced, regular margins, no fillers or nonsense.
This week we are already 2/3 of the way done with our course! It is time to start making some important connections. Let’s go!
1. Draw a neat and careful map that identifies the following:
North and South Vietnam, the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), Saigon, Hanoi, Cambodia, Laos, the border between China and North Vietnam.
As you draw the map, reflect on your Zinn reading and how each of these places is an important part of the American War (if you’re Vietnamese) also known as the Vietnam War in the U.S.
Please use critical thinking skills to really get deep into these answers. Don’t write what you think I want to read. Deconstruct, deconstruct, deconstruct ~ and get to a place of being able to look at hard things with no judgement. Search for understanding. Why do humans do what they do?
2. The LGBTQ2 Experience and Movement.
This is a Human Rights Movement.
a. What are people struggling for?
b. How are stories like those told in the Stonewall film and the Stonewall reading counter-narrative?
c. How has there been change over time in the LGBTQ2 Movement?
d. Why are this topic, the experiences of the LGBTQ2 Community, and this movement historically significant?
3. The American Indian Experience and Movement
This is a Human Rights Movement.
a. Describe the ways in which Indigenous Peoples have been treated as you have learned from your reading and the films you have watched. Include facts from ,”All the Real Indians…”, Indigenous Boarding School Materials, Assimilation and Removal Materials, WWII Materials, and on through the American Indian Movement materials. Make connections. Follow change through time. Notice consistencies in racism, land theft, erasure, etc. as well as survival, perseverance, and flourishing. Bless this subject with non-stereotypical answers made rich with what you have learned this summer.
b. What is the American Indian Movement and why is it historically significant?
c. Why is the AIM left out of the Master Narrative and how can it be introduced in to the Master Narrative?
4. The Civil Rights Movement and Experiences of African Americans
This is a Human Rights Movement.
a. What are people struggling for? (Consider what you have learned from Reconstruction Materials, the Ida B. Wells film, The Great Migration materials, the Jazz Era materials, Mighty Times, The Children’s March and Hidden Figures. Make connections. Follow change (or not) through time. Notice consistencies in racism, the need for power over, violence, erasure, as well as survival, perseverance, and flourishing. Again, Bless this subject with non-stereotypical answers made rich with what you have learned this summer.
b. What connections can you make between what you have learned and written about above and what you are seeing and experiencing in your lifetime with regard to African American Human Rights and Human Rights Activism?
c. Why is the “Civil Rights Movement” taught the way it is in the master narrative to school children? (Why is it included, why is the mini-portion of the story that IS told, ALL that is told?)
5. The Chicano Movement
This is a Human Rights Movement.
a. Why is the Chicano Movement left out of the master narrative? How is what you have learned about the Chicano Movement counter-narrative?
b. What were people struggling for during the Chicano Movement of the 60s and 70s in Northern and Southern California, Texas, Colorado, and New Mexico? (Be very specific).
c. How can learning about the Chicano Movement bring pride to the ChicanX community today? Why should stories like those of these five geographic locations be considered historically significant enough to NOT erase ~ and to celebrate deeply?
6. The Women’s Movement
This is a Human Rights Movement.
a. Why should the Women’s Movement be a part of the master narrative? Why is it historically significant?
b. What were feminists struggling for during the 1950s-1970s?
c. Discuss consciousness raising, social action, and theory making. How did each of these practices improve women’s lives in the United States?
d. Consider change over time and discuss what you have learned about women gaining human rights in the U.S. over time including suffrage materials, Labor and Labor Movement materials, WWII, and the Second Wave.
e. Why is the Women’s Rights Movement so frequently “boiled down” to be either about concern over “man-bashing” OR about women’s reproductive freedom? Be frank. Dig deep!
Extra Credit Question ~ 5 points for a well written answer!
Take a few paragraphs to discuss what is known as the “Double Bind of Oppression” ~ that is being a womyn and being of color. How has this Double Bind shown up in what you have learned so far this semester? Why is the Double Bind of Oppression historically significant?

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