Homework AFTER week 1 class
Required Homework
Reflect on the narrative of race and history you’ve been taught. Take 10–15 minutes to write down your reflections. Bring these thoughts to the next session.
• Who have I been taught to value?
• Whose stories have been left out?
• How does this affect the way I see myself, others, and God?
Watch The “Casta System” (10 minutes)
Watch “The Glory and Honor of the Nations” (27 minutes)
CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE
Watch
- Pursuing Integral Mission” (C. Rene Padilla) (45 minutes)
- Understanding the Mexican Casta System: A Historical and Cultural Perspective
- Voices: American Historia: The Untold History of Latinos
- Encomiendo and Hacienda System (7 minutes)
- The Insane Story of How the United Fruit Company Took Over Central America (20 minutes)
- What fruits and vegetables did European explorers bring from the New World? (2 minutes)
Read
Listen
Listen to one of the following songs, which reflect the “mestizaje,” or mixture, of
indigenous, African, and Spanish cultural influences:
“You are in me and I am in you. I pray that they also can be one in us. THEN THE WORLD WILL BELIEVE THAT YOU SENT ME.”
John 17:21
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