Discussion Questions

Here are the discussion questions for Friday based on "Powerful Spaces"

1. How was this experiment conducted?
2. What kind of researcher is Professor Moje and what does that mean?
3. What is a space?
4. What does Professor Moje mean by having people’s identities varying based on time and space?
5. How is this applied to Latinos and what we have talked about before, examples?
6. When the youth took a trip outside of their community, how did they classify the other neighborhoods?
7. What are people’s reactions when someone of the Latino community starts to spend time with people of a different space?
8. What are your feelings on that?
9. At the mall what were people’s reactions so see Moje with a large group of Latino youth?
10. How did the youth themselves comment and judge others?
11. What does it mean to be “other” and be “othered”?
12. What are the characteristics of Virnot Street and why is it important?
13. How is it related to Aztlan?
14. What are the advantages of a virtual (internet) space?