Critical Response Paper
You will write four, 2-3 page, 1.5-spaced, critical response papers throughout the quarter.
Papers should respond to the themes, concepts and questions illuminated through the weeks lectures and readings. Responses must incorporate at least 1 secondary source and 1 primary source from the weeks assigned readings. Papers may include connections to other readings, draw on personal experiences, critiques of the authors approach and post future questions and research possibilities
Response papers will help deepen your engagement with the readings, hone your analytic skills and push you to make meaningful connections between primary and secondary sources–this is the work of the historian!
Quote and cite your evidence in your analysis* Use all sources (minimum 5 quotes to be used in the paper)
Primary Source –
1. Hilary Goodfriend. A Demand for Sanctuary. Jacobin Magazine (February 2017)
Primary Source –
2. Ariel Goldberg and Laurie Melrood. Sanctuary Protocols 2019
Secondary Source –
Norma Stoltz Chinchilla, Hamilton and Loucky. The Sanctuary Movement and Central American Activism in Los Angeles. Latin American Perspectives (November 2009)
Main point (s) to focus and answer:
How institutionalized religion + spirituality has been used as a weapon of colonization and white supremacy AND a tool for social justice within Jewish American and Chicanx/Latinx activist spaces in the US (respectively and in coalition)
-Religion and spirituality between Latin America And the US (history of acting as a colonizing presence to uphold white supremacy)
-Soviet Jewry Movement (mid 1960s-80s)
-Liberation Theology in Latin America
-US Intervention in Central America
– Sanctuary Movement (1980s)/ New Sanctuary Movement (NSM)
-NSM and Interfaith Coalitions
