GENDER, RACE, CLASS, SEXUALITY

CLASS SCHEDULE: WINTER 2006


Notes:

- All Discussion Board and Questions Links postings are due by class time (7 p.m.) on days that the class meets online for chats (mostly Mondays & Wednesdays). On days that we do not meet for a chat (mostly Fridays), they are due by MIDNIGHT on Friday.

- Please watch the films in the Media Library on your own time by the date due for discussion. Video Information Link

- WebCT: Please login to WebCT at the times noted on the Class Schedule for our online chats: WebCT login.
- Once you're in this class website, click on the "Chatroom" icon or link .
- From there you will enter the "Click here to enter weekly online chat" link to participate in the online class chat sessions.

Date
What we're doing
Readings & Things Due
January 4th - Wednesday

Introduction to the class – to key concepts – and to each other

 

Meet ONLINE @ 7 p.m.

Please login to WebCT for our online chats: WebCT login.
Go to the "
Class Chatroom
" link or icon... and then click on the "Class Chatroom - Enter here for online chats!" link. That will bring you into the online chatroom for the class.

Online Responses to Introductions link in WebCT
- Due by Jan 6th @ midnight.

Instructions on how to access link: Discussion Boards


Discussion Boards - Please post by Friday, January 6th

SHIFTING THE CENTER - THEORY IN THE FLESH: WOMEN OF COLOR EXPERIENCE & IDENTITIES

Video at Library: A Place of Rage

This video will be reserved under this number: 83400


Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray… Text

· Sec II – Merle Woo – Josephine and me – p.221-230
· Sec III – Susan Shown Harjo, “What do you want to be called?” – p.288-290
· Sec III – Joanna Kadi – “Letter to Hassan” – p. 291-292
· Sec III – Multiplicity – p. 340-341 [poem]
· Sec III - Mab Segrest, On Being White and Other Lies (243-286)

Discussion Board on readings above - link is available in WebCT

Questions & Current Events Link - link is available in WebCT

Instructions on how to access link: Discussion Boards

     



January 9th - Monday

 

 

REDEFINING DIFFERENCE: WHITE PRIVILEGE & RACE

Video at Library: Color of Fear.

This video will be reserved under this number: 84657

Online Links:
Peggy McIntosh Article


Meet ONLINE @ 7 p.m.

Reader:

· Donna Kate Rushin – The Bridge Poem [poem]
· Cherrie Moraga – La Guera
· Nellie Wong – When I was Growing Up [poem]
· Audre Lorde – Age, race, class and sex: Women redefining difference

· Peggy McIntosh – White Privilege and Male Privilege (also available online)
· Jo Carrillo – And When You Leave, Take Your Pictures With You [poem]

Online

· Aimee Carrillo Rowe – My Spine - Power Lines


Discussion Board on readings above - link is available in WebCT

Questions & Current Events Link - link is available in WebCT

Instructions on how to access link: Discussion Boards


January 11th - Wednesday

 


QUEERING THE SPECTRUM


DUE: Autoethnography Paper #1 – On RACE

Please turn in your papers through
www.turnitin.com

Turnitin instructions


Meet ONLINE @ 7 p.m.


S
ing, Whisper, Shout, Pray… Text

· Sec III – Grace Poore - Three movements in a minor – p. 372-377

Reader
· Spargo: Foucault and Queer Theory. (Pp. 3-33).
· Judith Butler: Imitation and gender insubordination
· Amanda Udis-Kessler: Biphobia as a Crisis of Meaning
· Hooks – Homophobia in Black communities

Questions & Current Events Link - link is available in WebCT

Instructions on how to access link: Discussion Boards

January 13th - Friday

Discussion Boards - Please post by Friday Midnight

INTERSECTIONS OF CLASS & POWER

Video at Library: Dam/Age

This video will be reserved under this number: 86365


Reader

· Arundathi Roy - The reincarnation of Rumpelstillskin
· Patricia J. Williams – Of race and risk
· Donna Langston – Tired of Playing Monopoly?
· Barbara Ehrenreich – The Silenced Majority
· Gar Alperovitz – Tax the Plutocrats
· Suniti Namjoshi – Magpie


Discussion Board on readings above - link is available in WebCT

Questions & Current Events Link - link is available in WebCT

Instructions on how to access link: Discussion Boards

 

 


January 16th - Monday

THE RACIAL AND GENDERED ASPECTS OF WAR – SPECIAL FOCUS

Video at Library – Hidden Wars of Dessert Storm

This video will be reserved under this number: 10338

Visit 2 websites that are anti-war and two websites that support the war before logging on to do the discussion boards.

DUE by Friday: Response Paper # 2– On WAR.

Please turn in your papers through
www.turnitin.com

Turnitin instructions


Meet ONLINE @ 7 p.m.


Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray… Text

· Sec I: Suheir Hammad – First writing since - p.3
· Sec I: Barbara Lee – I’ve seen this war before – p. 13
· Sec I: Rosalind Pechesky – Phantom Towers… - p. 15
· Sec I: Lisa Albrecht – From the First Intifada to the Second Intifada – p. 103
· Sec I: Anonymous – Lurching through these frightening days – p. 116


Online

Link to Roy article: Instant Mix Imperial Democracy

Link to Walter Mosley article – An African American Appeal for Peace

Extra Credit Opportunity: Watch Farenheit 9/11 and write a one page reaction to it.


Questions & Current Events Link - link is available in WebCT

January 17th - Tuesday (midnight)


DUE: Webpage projects

Links to your Webpage projects should be posted through the forum on the right. (Please also email a copy of them to me directly).



Please post your Webpage presentation links by midnight on Tuesday, January 17th here:
Webpage Presentations

January 18th - Wednesday Please visit all the group project links online before we meet.

Webpage Presentations

THEORY IN THE FLESH: Nation, Immigration and Resistance along the Intersections.


Meet ONLINE @ 6 p.m.

Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray… Text
· Sec IV - Becky Thompson, Multiracial Feminism (397-424)

Reader

· Chandra Talpade Mohanty – Defining genealogies: Feminist reflections on being South Asian in North America
· Margaret Atwood – A woman’s issue [poem]
· Audre Lorde – The Erotic as Power
· Bell hooks – Love as the practice of freedom
· Audre Lorde – The Art of Response [poem]
· Marge Piercy – The Low Road [poem]


Discussion Board on readings above - link is available in WebCT

Questions & Current Events Link - link is available in WebCT

Instructions on how to access link: Discussion Boards

 


 

 

Please take this exam on January 18th -
Wednesday

 

 

ONLINE EXAM to be accessed through the WebCT site.
WebCT login

Your Online Exam will be available from 7:30-10:30 p.m. TODAY


Please make sure you are prepared (with books and notes, and a reliable internet connection) BEFORE logging in to the exam as you will be allowed ONLY ONE attempt at the exam.

You can access the exam by clicking on the "GRCS ONLINE EXAM" link once you log in to the WebCT class site (link on left).

The exam consists of Multiple Choice questions and Essay questions that will draw on ALL the readings, class discussions and videos. You will be expected to demonstrate through your answers that you have engaged with the materials in a meaningful way and made connections between different texts.

You will have 1.5 hours to complete it. Please budget your time accordingly.


January 20th -
Friday (by midnight)

DUE: FINAL Individual Papers

Please turn in your papers through
www.turnitin.com

Turnitin instructions