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

Introductions (link disabled)
Email (link disabled)
Online Discussion Responses – Due by Friday, February 6th

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

In-class video: A Place of Rage

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]

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

REDEFINING DIFFERENCE: WHITE PRIVILEGE

Video: Color of Fear. You can view the video for today in-class @ 10 a.m. or on your own at the Media Library.

Online Links:
Peggy McIntosh Article

No compulsory in-class meeting.
You may use the class time to meet in groups for your final presentation if you wish.

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)

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

Log on and do the discussions for these readings online by midnight Sunday

INTERSECTIONS OF CLASS & POWER

DUE: Response Paper #1 – On RACE

Reader
· 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

February 25th - Wednesday

QUEERING THE SPECTRUM

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

THE RACIAL AND GENDERED ASPECTS OF WAR – SPECIAL FOCUS

Video – Hidden Wars of Dessert Storm
Visit 2 websites that are anti-war and two websites that support the war before coming to class.

Print out one page from each site. You will use these in the paper due next meeting 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 Imperialial Democracy

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

US IMPERIALISM – SPECIAL FOCUS – ONLINE

DUE: Response Paper # 2– On WAR. Submit online by midnight.

Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray… Text

· Sec II - El Comité de Mujeres Puertorriqueñas, In the Belly of the Beast - pp. 125-136
· Sec II - Haunani-Kay Trask - Hawai’i …pp. 137-150
· Sec II - Winona Laduke - Akwesasne - pp. 158-171
· Sec II - Judith McDaniel – Traveling through Big Mountain – pp. 173-180
· Sec II - Janice Gould - History Lesson – pp.234-237

Online Discussion (link disabled). Responses to these readings DUE by March 5th.

Questions Link (link disabled).

ONLINE EXAM
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The exam will consist of multiple choice, short answer and essay questions that will draw on the readings, class discussions and exercises. 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.
This will be an online exam.

THEORY IN THE FLESH: Women of Color Experience & Identities - NATION AND IMMIGRATION

In-class Video – Dam/Age

DUE – Autoethnography Paper

Reader
· Arundathi Roy - The reincarnation of Rumpelstillskin
· Chandra Talpade Mohanty – Defining genealogies: Feminist reflections on being South Asian in North America
· Margaret Atwood – A woman’s issue [poem]
· Audre Lorde – To the poet who happens to be black and the black poet who happens to be a woman [poem]

Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray… Text
· Sec IV - Becky Thompson, Multiracial Feminism (397-424);
· Sec IV – Nellie Wong, Imagine [poem] (502-504)
· Sec IV - Audre Lorde, Oberlin College Commencement Address (530-536)

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]

Online
· Arundathi Roy – The New American Century

March 20th – Saturday

Wrap-up day and Final presentations?
Potluck?