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Tuesday, October 17, 2017

• Movie viewing: I Learn America (2013)

  Oct. 17, 2017 at 9:30 a.m. until 11 a.m.
  John C. Hitt Library

  In I Learn America, five resilient immigrant teenagers come together at the International High School at Lafayette and struggle to learn their new land. The International High School is a New York City public school dedicated to serving newly arrived immigrant teenagers, with more than 300 students speaking two-dozen languages from 50 countries. Over a school year, amidst the complexity …

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• Movie Viewing: Straightlaced: How Gender's Got Us All Tied Up (2009)

  Oct. 17, 2017 at 12 p.m. until 1:15 p.m.
  John C. Hitt Library

  With a fearless look at a highly charged subject, Straightlaced unearths how pressures around gender and sexuality are confining American teens. These stories reflect a diversity of experiences, demonstrating how gender role expectations and homophobia are interwoven, and illustrating the different ways these expectations connect with culture, race and class. From girls confronting media messages about body image to boys …

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• Movie Viewing: Hooligan Sparrow (2016)

  Oct. 17, 2017 at 3 p.m. until 4:30 p.m.
  John C. Hitt Library

  The danger is palpable as maverick activist Ye Haiyan (a.k.a Hooligan Sparrow) and her band of colleagues travel to Hainan Province in southern China to protest the case of six elementary school girls who were sexually abused by their principal. Marked as enemies of the state, the activists are under constant government surveillance and face interrogation, harassment, and imprisonment. Sparrow, …

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