Building Community and Belonging for Hispanic Students through the Humanities

FAIN: AC-289976-23

Research Foundation for the State University of New York (Albany, NY 12207-2826)
Aviva Taubenfeld (Project Director: May 2022 to present)

The creation of an advanced course, a community-wide speaker series, and digital humanities resources for the study and teaching of Spanish language and culture for heritage speakers.  

“Building Community and Belonging for Hispanic Students through the Humanities” (BCBHS) is a 2.5-year language, literature, oral and urban history, and community engagement initiative. We propose to create an advanced Spanish language literacy program for heritage speakers that combines oral history, urban history, literature, and digital humanities. The program will use a multiliteracies approach that seeks to adapt the teaching of linguistic and cultural literacy to the current trends in the digital globalized world that students navigate in their everyday lives. BCBHS will incorporate advanced literature and history into the multimodal format and the production of an open-source Spanish language and literature textbook created, in-part, through collaboration with students. The BCBHS program will also create a space and medium for community members to engage in listening to and learning from each other.