Month(s) of Understanding 2021: Week 1, January 4th to 8th

Articles & links recommended by API students!

• Affirmative Action Has Helped White Women More Than Anyone
• Regents of the University of California v. Bakke
• Gratz v. Bollinger
• Fisher v. University of Texas   
• Students for Fair Admissions 
• Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard
• Model Minority Myth + Affirmative Action
• North Thurston School District
• Prop 16
• Model Minority Myth + Prop 16

Other articles and links:

• About Affirmative Action, Diversity and Inclusion 
• AAAED History of Affirmative Action 
• Prop 16's Defeat and the Future of Affirmative Action 
• Affirmative Action In Higher Education: Relevance for Today's Racial Justice Battlegrounds 
• Why California Rejected Affirmative Action, Again
• When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America ​​​​
• Anti-Racism Daily: Support affirmative action in schools​​​​​​​

El Canto del Colibri 
Watch it on Kanopy for free!

El Canto del Colibri is a documentary exploring the relationships between Latino immigrant fathers and their LGBTQ family members. Screened at numerous festivals worldwide, El Canto del Colibri will be screened on Friday, January 8, with a discussion afterwards with filmmaker Marco Castro-Bojorquez. Look out for a vimeo link and password for urban community members to watch the entire film!

"I want to dismantle the racist premise that Latinx men are homophobic, transphobic, or machista by nature and show that unconditional love changed hearts and minds in our families and communities." - Marco Castro-Bojorquez

Marco Castro-Bojorquez recommended the following books and authors during the Q&A following the film screening:

• Poet Octavio Paz
• The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
• The Little Prince, a novella by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• Los niños tontos, short stories by Ana María Matute
• One Hundred Years of Solitude, or anything by Gabriel García Márquez