Final Project Handout à A Triangular Approach to Stereotypes: Analyzing, Debunking and Overcoming

Final Project Handout à A Triangular Approach to Stereotypes: Analyzing, Debunking and Overcoming

Overview:

- Introducing Jimmy Santiago Baca’s “Martin & Meditations on the South Valley,” as well my own experience in the South Valley

-There are stereotypes of the South Valley and the people who reside in there that should be discovered because media has portrayed South Valley as a violent, indolent part of Albuquerque.

-My aim in this paper is to debunk stereotypes of the South Valley while using Baca’s narrative poems and my personal experience to critic analyze and question the validity of these stereotypes

Breakdown of Paper

-Thesis

-Jimmy’s introduction

-Introduce the book by Fredrick B. Pike

-Introduce Modern Latin America : slavery stats

-compare and contrast the Pike and Baca

- summarize Baca and Pike by reviewing the evidence through my own experience

-come to a common conclusion about stereotypes

Sources Used:

Homeless Needs Assessment, Ethnicity breakdown

Jimmy Santiago Baca Biography

Read from Fredrick B. Pike Myths and stereotypes highlighted in chapter 2

Lastly here's a picture of mestizos coming together and creating a mural of their success