This seminar creates a network of support and leadership development to prepare incoming BIPOC students to thrive at CCA and in the Bay Area. Through support and collaboration with the greater CCA community, students will have a curated experience in wellness, campus culture, academic support, community development, BIPOC Bay Area history and culture, effective, active listening, goal-setting and leadership. Students will have the opportunity to meet with a range of CCA and community leaders to gain a deep understanding of the college’s culture and to share their perspective over this year-long engagement.
- Instructor: Shylah Hamilton
- Instructor: Rickey Vincent
- Instructor: Maxwell Leung
This course explores the evolution and organization of “gangs” from around the world from critical gang studies perspectives rooted in the instability, inequity, and liquidity of the post-industrial era. We will look at the formation of gangs as a complex phenomenon that reflects, responds to, and creates a certain structured environment in spaces that are always in flux. We will draw on a range of culturally specific traditions to look beyond the pathological, ahistorical, and non-transformative. Instead, we look to understand how colonization and its agents: racism, segregation, capitalism, displacement, etc. contribute to the appreciation of the “gang” as socio-cultural formations.
- Instructor: Shylah Hamilton
- Instructor: Rickey Vincent
- Instructor: Erin Algeo
- Instructor: Melissa Leventon