Date |
What
we're doing |
Readings & Things Due |
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January
2nd - Friday
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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 |
No synchronous online meeting today.
Begin by doing the readings below, watching The Color of Fear video (at CSUN) or online, and doing the introductory discussion boards by midnight on Sunday.
We will meet online on Monday, January 5th.
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 Responses to Introductions link in WebCT
- Due by Jan 4th @ midnight.
Instructions on how to access link: Discussion Boards
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| January
5th - Monday |
Introduction to the class – to key
concepts – and to each other
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Meet ONLINE @ 6:00-8:00
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.
We will also discuss the readings from Jan 2nd when we meet. So make sure you have read them.
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January 7th - Wednesday
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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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Do Discussion Boards - Due @ midnight today
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)
Online
· Aimee Carrillo Rowe – My Spine - Power Lines
Discussion Board 1 on readings above - available in WebCT
Instructions on how to access link: Discussion Boards
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Date |
What
we're doing |
Readings & Things Due |
January 9th -
Friday |
QUEERING THE SPECTRUM
DUE: Autoethnography Paper
#1 – On RACE
Please turn in your papers through
www.turnitin.com
Turnitin instructions
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Do Discussion Boards - Due @ midnight today
Sing, 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
Discussion Board 2 on readings above - available in WebCT
Instructions on how to access link: Discussion Boards
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January 12th - Monday
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INTERSECTIONS OF CLASS & POWER
Video at Library: Dam/Age
This video will be reserved under this number: 86365 |
Meet ONLINE @ 7:00 - 8:30
p.m. [Please note the later time]
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
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Date |
What
we're doing |
Readings & Things Due |
January 14th - Wednesday
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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
DUE: Webpage projects
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MEET online @ 7:00-8:30
p.m. [Please note the later time]
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.
Please email your Webpage/Blog presentation links to me by midnight tonight.
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| January
16th - Friday |
THEORY IN THE FLESH: Nation, Immigration and Resistance along the Intersections.
DUE: Response Paper
# 2 – On WAR.
Please turn in your papers through
www.turnitin.com
Turnitin instructions |
Do Discussion Boards - Due @ midnight today.
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 3 on readings above - available in WebCT
Instructions on how to access link: Discussion Boards
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January 17th
- Saturday
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ONLINE EXAM to be accessed through the WebCT site.
WebCT login
DUE: FINAL Individual Papers
Please turn in your papers through
www.turnitin.com
Turnitin instructions
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Your Online Exam will be available Saturday - until midnight. Please complete it.
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.
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