As a public-private partnership between Milwaukee Public Schools and The Council for the Spanish Speaking., Loyola Academy is an alternative high school that provides approximately 100 "at risk" youths an opportunity to obtain their high school diploma and prepare for their college education. The student population at Loyola is predominantly Latino, including many English Language Learners, but Loyola also serves students of diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds, and instruction in the classroom is conducted in English.
This semester, you and Loyola Academy students will conduct research and collect visual materials (original and found) to create an online media archive that documents your mutual interactions, the history of Loyola Academy and the south side Milwaukee community in which it is located. You will attend classes with Loyola students and conduct learning activities based on our class discussions on the representations of racial and ethnic identities in U.S. media.
