Date |
What
we're doing |
Readings
& Things Due |
| August 26th - Tuesday |
INTRODUCTION to the
class – to key concepts – and to each other
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Meet
ONLINE @6 p.m.
Access online chats here through WebCT
Introductions - link in WebCT
Instructions on how to access link: Discussion Boards
Online Responses to Introductions link in WebCT – Due by August 29th @ Midnight.
I will be emailing the class from time to time. I will use your CSUN emails to do so. Please make sure that you check your CSUN emails daily -- or go to the ITR website to arrange for mail forwarding to an email account that you DO check.
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September 2nd -
Tuesday
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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
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Meet
ONLINE @6 p.m.
Access online chats here through WebCT
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
DUE by 6 p.m. - Questions Link #1 - link in WebCT
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September 9th - Tuesday
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SHIFTING THE CENTER
- THEORY IN THE FLESH: WOMEN OF COLOR EXPERIENCE & IDENTITIES |
Discussion Boards.
NO synchronous chat today.
Please post your Discussion Boards [DB's] by midnight tonight.
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
Reader:
· Jo Carrillo – And When You Leave, Take Your Pictures With You [poem]
DUE: Discussion Boards #1 on readings above - link in WebCT
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| September 16th - Tuesday |
REDEFINING DIFFERENCE:
WHITE PRIVILEGE
Video at Library: Color of Fear.
This video will be reserved under this number: 84657
Online Links:
Peggy McIntosh
Article
Obama's Race Speech
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Meet
ONLINE @6 p.m.
Access online chats here through WebCT
Reader:
· Peggy McIntosh – White Privilege and Male Privilege (also available online)
Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray… Text
· Sec III - Mab Segrest, On Being White and Other Lies (243-286)
· Sec IV - June Rostan, Inside-Out and Upside-Down:(505-510)
· Sec IV - Sheri Scott, Stolen Memory (546-555)
Online:
· Obama's Race Speech
DUE by 6 p.m. - Questions Link #2 - link in WebCT
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Please think about the following questions when doing the readings and watching the film. Reflect on them BEFORE class today.
1. How has your awareness of white privilege changed or been affected by these readings and this video?
2. What are some aspects of white privilege as presented by McIntosh that you could relate to most, or have seen operating before?
3. Who did you identify with most in the video and why?
4. Who made you most uncomfortable in the video and why?
5. What are some ways in which we can disrupt white privilege?
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September 23rd - Tuesday
|
QUEERING THE SPECTRUM
Video: WatchTransAmerica (available at Blockbuster or other video stores)
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Meet
ONLINE @6 p.m.
Access online chats here through WebCT
Reader:
· Spargo: Foucault and Queer Theory. (Pp. 3-33).
· Judith Butler: Imitation and gender insubordination
· Amanda Udis-Kessler: Biphobia as a Crisis of Meaning
DUE by 6 p.m. - Questions Link #3 - link in WebCT
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September 30th - Tuesday
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QUEERING THE SPECTRUM |
NO synchronous chat today.
Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray… Text
· Sec III – Grace Poore - Three movements in a minor – p. 372-377
· Sec III – Multiplicity – p. 340-341 [poem]
Reader
· Hooks – Homophobia in Black communities
There is NO Discussion Board due for today. However, these readings are definitely on next week's test, so please read them and use your time to review our chats, and previous readings in preparation for the test.
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October 7th - Tuesday
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ONLINE TEST 1 to be accessed through the WebCT site. WebCT login
DUE: Autoethnography Paper #1 – On RACE
Please turn in your papers through www.turnitin.com
Turnitin instructions
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Your Online Test 1 will be available from 6-8 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 TEST 1 " 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 the readings, class discussions and videos upto September 30th. 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 be timed. Please budget your time according to exam length.
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October 14th - Tuesday |
INTERSECTIONS OF CLASS & POWER
Video at Library: Dam/Age
This video will be reserved under this number: 86365
May be available online (unreliable link):
Dam/age
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Discussion Boards.
NO synchronous chat today.
Please post your Discussion Boards [DB's] by midnight tonight.
Reader:
· Arundathi Roy - The reincarnation of Rumpelstillskin
· Patricia J. Williams – Of race and risk
· Donna Langston – Tired of Playing Monopoly?
DUE: Discussion Boards #2 on readings above - link in WebCT.
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| October 21st - Tuesday |
INTERSECTIONS OF CLASS & POWER
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Meet
ONLINE @ 6 p.m.
Access online chats here through WebCT
Reader:
· Gar Alperovitz – Tax the Plutocrats
· Suniti Namjoshi – Magpie
· Barbara Ehrenreich – The Silenced Majority
No Question Link is due for today. But please make sure you have read the readings and are ready to discuss them in our online chat
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October 28th - Tuesday |
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
Also available online:
Hidden Wars
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Meet
ONLINE @ 6 p.m.
Access online chats here through WebCT
Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray… Text
· Sec I: Suheir Hammad – First writing since - p.3
· Sec I: Lisa Albrecht – From the First Intifada to the Second Intifada – p. 103
· Sec I: Anonymous – Lurching through these frightening days – p. 116
· Sec III – Joanna Kadi – “Letter to Hassan” – p. 291-292
Available Online
Link to Roy article: Instant Mix Imperial Democracy
DUE by 6 p.m. - Questions Link #4 - link in WebCT
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| Nov 4th - Tuesday |
THE RACIAL AND GENDERED ASPECTS OF WAR – SPECIAL FOCUS
DUE by TODAY: Response Paper # 2 – On WAR.
Please turn in your papers through www.turnitin.com
Turnitin instructions |
Discussion Boards.
NO synchronous chat today.
Please post your Discussion Boards [DB's] by midnight tonight.
Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray… Text
· Sec I: Barbara Lee – I’ve seen this war before – p. 13
· Sec I: Rosalind Pechesky – Phantom Towers… - p. 15
Available Online
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 -- DUE by Nov 10th. Please turn in your paper through www.turnitin.com
DUE: Discussion Boards #3 on readings above - link in WebCT
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| Nov 11th - Tuesday |
Veteran's Day |
No Class Meeting today |
Nov 18th - Tuesday
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THEORY IN THE FLESH: Nation, Immigration and Resistance along the Intersections.
DUE: Group projects.
Please email your group presentation links to me by midnight TODAY.
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Meet
ONLINE @ 6 p.m.
Access online chats here through WebCT
Reader:
· 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]
DUE by 6 p.m. - Questions Link #5 - link in WebCT
|
Nov 25th - Tuesday
[Sheena @ NCA] |
THEORY IN THE FLESH: Nation, Immigration and Resistance along the Intersections. |
Discussion Boards.
NO synchronous chat today.
Please post your Discussion Boards [DB's] by midnight tonight.
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]
Online
· Aimee Carrillo Rowe – My Spine - Power Lines -- PLEASE access through link in WebCT.
DUE: Discussion Boards #4 on readings above - link in WebCT
|
Dec 2nd - Tuesday
|
ONLINE TEST 2 to be accessed through the WebCT site.WebCT login |
Your Online Test 2 will be available from 6-8 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 TEST 2 " 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 the readings, class discussions and videos not covered on the last test. 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 be timed. Please budget your time according to exam length.
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December 9th - Tuesday
|
Individual Papers DUE
Please turn in your papers through
www.turnitin.com
Turnitin instructions
|
Meet
ONLINE @6 p.m.
Access online chats here through WebCT
Please visit the group projects:
[Links will be posted here]
Overview and wrap up discussion for the class. |
