Community seminars & academic courses

Courses

Coming Soon in the Spring of 2018! Register today!

Race and Resistance: Immigration Politics in AZ

Arizona has become the epicenter for immigration politics and debate. This course examines the issues, reforms and responses by government officials, businesses and private residents. We analyze and discuss the resistance and resiliency of migrant communities living in the borderlands. We will also take a close look at the organizing tactics and discourse utilized in mobilizing for social change in Arizona and beyond.

Introduction to Border Crit Theory

This course will explore the foundations and central tenets of Border Crit Theory, a framework inspired by Critical Race Theory, Tribal Crit and Lat Crit. We will examine the origins of CRT and its intersections. By looking at its current applications, debates, and evolutions, we will explore the tension between understanding that race and borders are endemic to society and the commitment to social justice and praxis.

Research in the Borderlands

The Militarization of the Border

Policing and Criminalization

Community Organizing

Organizing Tactics & the Rhetoric of Resistance

Introduction to Social Transformation

Chicana Feminist Epistemologies

Critical Pedagogies in Education

Community Seminars

Coming in 2018! Community Seminars to inform, inspire, and create massive action to achieve your goals.

Small Business for DACAmented Entrepreneurs

No immigration status? No problem. Find out ways you can launch your own business to sustain your dreams independent of your legal status.

Avenues of Immigration Relief

Understanding the pathways and lack of pathways of legalization, and immigration relief.

Breaking Down Borders

What does it take to break down the physical and personal borders that limit you from achieving the life you want and loving the life you have?

Understanding White Privilege

Critical Self-Reflection for examining white privilege and dismantling institutions that protect White Supremacy.

Learning Happens In and Outside the Classroom

Born on the Border

$20.00

This book provides a first-hand chronicle of the immigration debate that engulfs our nation. Ray Ybarra Maldonado writes about the border from his personal experience as a child and from the perspective of a dedicated activist who has traveled into the interior of Mexico to find victims of vigilante abuse. While others are arguing over what comprehensive immigration reform looks like, the author’s personal conflict between doing what is morally right and breaking the law challenges readers to take a drastically different look at one of the most pressing issues facing nation-states in the 21st Century: immigration and the human right to cross borders.

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The Border Crit Institute

"To foreground the voices of people of color in the borderlands"