Date |
What
we're doing |
Readings
& Things Due |
| January 20th - Tuesday |
INTRODUCTION to the
class – to key concepts – and to each other
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Meet
ONLINE @ 2 p.m.
Access online chats here through Elluminate
Introductions - link in WebCT
Instructions on how to access link: Discussion Boards
Online Responses to Introductions link in WebCT – Due by January 25th @ 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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January 27th - Tuesday
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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.
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Meet
ONLINE @ 2 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 2 p.m. - Questions Link #1 - link in WebCT
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| February 3rd - 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
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Meet
ONLINE @ 2 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?
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February 10th - Tuesday
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QUEERING THE SPECTRUM
Video: Watch For The Bible Tells Me So (available at the CSUN Media Library, Netflix and other video stores) |
Meet
ONLINE @ 2 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
You can forget my taxes: Etheridge
DUE by 2 p.m. - Questions Link #2 - link in WebCT
Read description of Prop 8 DB due in two weeks, and begin posting to it after today's class.
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February 17th - Tuesday
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Back to SHIFTING THE CENTER
- THEORY IN THE FLESH
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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
· Sec IV - Sheri Scott, Stolen Memory (546-555)
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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| February 24th - Tuesday |
QUEERING THE SPECTRUM |
NO synchronous chat today. Participate in the Prop 8 Discussion Board 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 discussion board (DB) due today. I have created a Prop 8 DB ... where you can write through some of your thoughts ... utilizing the readings from this week and from Feb 10th 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 Feb 10th onwards... and return to it a couple of times over the 2 weeks.
Remember, 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. |
March 3rd - Tuesday |
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 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 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 February 25th. 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.
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March 10th - 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 @ 2 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 2 p.m. - Questions Link #3 - link in WebCT
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March 17th - Tuesday |
THE RACIAL AND GENDERED ASPECTS OF WAR – SPECIAL FOCUS
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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
· Sec III – Joanna Kadi – “Letter to Hassan” – p. 291-292
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 March 24th. Please turn in your paper through www.turnitin.com
DUE: Discussion Boards #2 on readings above - link in WebCT
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March 24th - Tuesday
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INTERSECTIONS OF CLASS & POWER
Video at Library: Dam/Age
This video will be reserved under this number: 86365
Also available online:
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?
· Suniti Namjoshi – Magpie
DUE: Discussion Boards #3 on readings above - link in WebCT
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| March 31st - Tuesday |
INTERSECTIONS OF CLASS & POWER |
Meet
ONLINE @ 2 p.m.
Access online chats here through Elluminate
Reader:
· Gar Alperovitz – Tax the Plutocrats
· Barbara Ehrenreich – The Silenced Majority
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.
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| April 7th - Tuesday |
SPRING BREAK |
NO CLASS |
| April 14th - Tuesday |
THEORY IN THE FLESH: Nation, Immigration and Resistance along the Intersections.
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 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
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April 21st - Tuesday |
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 @ 2 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 2 p.m. - Questions Link #4 - link in WebCT
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April 28th - Tuesday |
ONLINE TEST 2 to be accessed through the WebCT site.WebCT login |
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 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 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.
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May 5th - Tuesday
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Individual Papers DUE
Please turn in your papers through
www.turnitin.com
Turnitin instructions
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Meet
ONLINE @ 2 p.m.
Access online chats here through Elluminate
Please visit the group projects (when linked below)...
Overview and wrap up discussion for the class. |
