Notes:
- Everything is DUE ON THE DAY against which it is listed
- on the days we meet online -- assignments are due by 12 p.m.
- on the days we do NOT meet online - assignments are due by midnight

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

- Access the online chats through Elluminate
- Notes on how the Forums/Question Links work: Forums
- Notes on how to turn in papers to Turnitin.com

INTRODUCTION to the class - to key concepts - and to each other

Meet ONLINE @ 12 p.m.
Access online chats here through Elluminate

Introductions - link in Moodle
Instructions on how to access link: Forums


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.

Online Responses to Introductions link in Moodle – Due by August 30th @ Midnight.

September 1st - Tuesday

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

Video: A Place of Rage

This video is optional at this time... because the library's copy is damaged. IF you can access the video elsewhere, please watch it.

Meet ONLINE @ 12 p.m.
Access online chats here through Elluminate

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 noon. - Questions Link #1 - link in Moodle

REDEFINING DIFFERENCE: WHITE PRIVILEGE

Video at Library: Color of Fear.

This video will be reserved under this number: 84657

Online Links:
Peggy McIntosh Article

Meet ONLINE @ 12 p.m.
Access online chats here through Elluminate

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)

Online:
· Obama's Race Speech

No Questions Link due today.

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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?

SHIFTING THE CENTER - THEORY IN THE FLESH

DUE: Autoethnography Paper #1 – On RACE.
Paper due at midnight on Tuesday

Please turn in your papers through www.turnitin.com

Turnitin instructions

Forums.
NO synchronous chat today.
Please post your Forums 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
· Sec IV - Sheri Scott, Stolen Memory (546-555)

Reader:
· Jo Carrillo – And When You Leave, Take Your Pictures With You [poem]

DUE: Forum #1 on readings above - link in Moodle

September 22nd - Tuesday

QUEERING THE SPECTRUM

Video: Watch For The Bible Tells Me So (available at the CSUN Media Library, Netflix and other video stores)

Meet ONLINE @ 12 p.m.
Access online chats here through Elluminate

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

Online

• Prop 8: Formal arguments & rebuttals

• LA Times article on hearings
• No on Prop 8 site

DUE by noon. - Questions Link #2 - link in Moodle

Read description of Prop 8 Forum due in next week, and begin posting to it after today's class.

NO synchronous chat today. Participate in the Prop 8 Forum online.

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 a different kind of Forum due today. I have created a Prop 8 Forum ... where you can write through some of your analysis ... utilizing the readings from this week and from September 22nd to support your point and where you can post links to outside resources on the subject, etc.

In order to get credit for this DB... you must do an "original" size (2-3 paragraphs) at least once... and then respond to at least two more of your classmates posts. However, I encourage you to use this DB to really dialogue with each other - always with respect - and to bring together good resources for people on Prop 8. In order to do this well, you should be starting to post to this board from September 22nd onwards... and return to it a couple of times over the week.

Remember, these readings are definitely on the first test, so please read them and use your time to review our chats, and previous readings in preparation for the test.

October 6th - 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

Meet ONLINE @ 12 p.m.
Access online chats here through Elluminate

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


Available Online
Link to Roy article: Instant Mix Imperial Democracy

DUE by noon - Questions Link #3 - link in Moodle

Extra Credit Opportunity: Watch Farenheit 9/11 and write a one page reaction to it -- DUE by October 20th. Please turn in your paper through www.turnitin.com

October 13th - Tuesday

ONLINE TEST 1 to be accessed through the Moodle site. Moodle login

Your Online Test 1 will be available from 12-2 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 Moodle 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 (and including) September 29th. 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 be timed. Please budget your time according to exam length.

October 20th - Tuesday

THE RACIAL AND GENDERED ASPECTS OF WAR – SPECIAL FOCUS

Forums.
NO synchronous chat today.
Please post your Forums 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
· Sec III – Joanna Kadi – “Letter to Hassan” – p. 291-292
Available Online

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


DUE: Forum #2 on readings above - link in Moodle
DUE: Extra Credit paper on Farenheit 9/11... on www.turnitin.com

October 27th - Tuesday

INTERSECTIONS OF CLASS & POWER

Video at Library: Dam/Age

This video will be reserved under this number: 86365

Also available online:
Dam/age

Meet ONLINE @ 12 p.m..
Access online chats here through Elluminate

Reader:
· Arundathi Roy - The reincarnation of Rumpelstillskin
· Patricia J. Williams – Of race and risk
· Donna Langston – Tired of Playing Monopoly?
· Suniti Namjoshi – Magpie

Before logging in today... please find at least 3 statistics ONLINE about issues of class. Remind me to ask for those stats during the class discussion. Also -- make a note of the sites (please use credible sites) where you find the information.

NO Questions Link today.

Forums.
NO synchronous chat today.
Please post your Forums by midnight tonight.

Reader:
· Gar Alperovitz – Tax the Plutocrats
· Barbara Ehrenreich – The Silenced Majority

DUE: Forum #3 on readings above - link in Moodle

Group Work - on Final Project

DUE by TODAY: Response Paper # 2 – On WAR. Due by midnight TONIGHT.

Please turn in your papers through www.turnitin.com

Turnitin instructions

NO official class meeting today.

However, you can use Moodle to meet online, and discuss your final projects. Or you may chose to meet off line - in person, and work as a group. Either way -- this is the one class period you can use to finish up your group project - which is due in 2 weeks.

Note: I am away at a national conference this week, so my email replies will be a bit delayed.

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

Forums.
NO synchronous chat today.
Please post your Forums [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 Moodle.

DUE: Forum #4 on readings above - link in Moodle

November 24th - Tuesday

Meet ONLINE @ 12 p.m..
Access online chats here through Elluminate

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 12 p.m. - Questions Link #4 - link in Moodle

December 1st - Tuesday

Your Online Test 2 will be available from 2-4 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 Moodle 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 in 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.

December 8th - Tuesday

Individual Papers DUE

Please turn in your papers through
www.turnitin.com

Turnitin instructions

Meet ONLINE @ 12 p.m.
Access online chats here through Elluminate

Please visit the group projects (when linked below)...

Overview and wrap up discussion for the class.