AP English-Black Voices Class Meets with Tina Calderon

On Monday, 10/17, the AP English-Black Voices class, in collaboration with the Community Engagement department (shout out to Renée Larios), met with Tina Calderon, a culture bearer for the Gabrielino-Tongva and Chumash peoples. Early in the semester, the class paired Gilio-Whitaker's As Long As Grass Grows, a survey of historical and contemporary successes and discontents within environmental justice movements from an Indigenous perspective, with Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower in an effort to trace Americans' relationship to the land. After exploring contemporary concerns for the environmental justice movement, the class began looking at American liberation movements as a means of grounding their knowledge in action. 

Watch the full talk here: