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

Introductions (link disabled)
Email (link disabled)

Online Responses to Introductions and Email links above – Due by Wednesday, June 30th.

Discussion Boards - Please post by Friday, July 2nd.

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

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]

Discussion Board FOR SWSP Readings Above (link disabled)

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

Discussion Board for readings from Reader (link disabled)

Questions & Current Events Link (link disabled)

July 6th - 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

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]


Questions & Current Events Link (link disabled)

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

Discussion Board for Readings on Class above


Questions & Current Events Link

July 13th - Tuesday

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

Questions & Current Events Link (link disabled)

US IMPERIALISM – SPECIAL FOCUS

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 Board for readings above (link disabled)

Questions & Current Events Link (link disabled)

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

Visit 2 websites that are anti-war and two websites that support the war before logging on for the chat.

DUE by Friday, July 23rd: Response Paper # 2– On WAR.

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

Extra Credit Opportunity: Watch Farenheit 9/11 and write a one page reaction to it.


Questions & Current Events 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

Video at Library: Dam/Age

This video will be reserved under this number: 86365

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]

Online
· Arundathi Roy – The New American Century

Questions & Current Events Link (link disabled)

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 Discussion Boards for Readings Above (link disabled)

Questions & Current Events Link (link disabled)

Wrap-up chat and Final projects DUE