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

Meet ONLINE @ 6 p.m.

Try and post your introductions on the links below BEFORE logging in to the online classroom chat.

Introductions - link in WebCT

EMAIL: I will be emailing students in this class on their CSUN account. You are responsible to check that account regularly. If you do not use that account often, please go to the ITR website or call the CSUN Helpdesk [x1400] and learn how to forward mail from your CSUN account so that you get the class communications regularly.

Online Responses to Introductions link in WebCT –
Due by September 2nd, 2005 - Midnight.
Instructions on how to access link: Discussion Boards

Please post to Discussion Boards & Questions link by MIDNIGHT on:

September 7th - Wednesday

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

NO synchronous online chat 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

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 on readings above - link in WebCT

Questions & Current Events Link - link in WebCT

Instructions on how to access link: Discussion Boards

September 10th - Saturday

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 @ 9 a.m.

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]

Discussion Board for Readings above - link in WebCT

Questions & Current Events - link in WebCT

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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?

QUEERING THE SPECTRUM

DUE: Autoethnography Paper #1 – On RACE

Please turn in your papers through
www.turnitin.com

Turnitin instructions

Meet ONLINE @ 6 p.m.

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
· 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 in WebCT

September 21st - Wednesday

INTERSECTIONS OF CLASS & POWER

Video at Library: Dam/Age

This video will be reserved under this number: 86365

Meet ONLINE @ 6 p.m.

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


Discussion Board for Readings above - link in WebCT

Questions & Current Events Link - link in WebCT

Your Online Exam #1 will be available from 9-11 a.m. today, Saturday, September 24th, 2005.

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 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.

Please post to Discussion Boards & Questions link by MIDNIGHT on:

September 28th - Wednesday

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

NO synchronous online chat 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]

Online
· Aimee Carrillo Rowe – My Spine - Power Lines

Discussion Board for Readings above - link in WebCT

Questions & Current Events Link - link in WebCT

Note: You can send me your links to your Group Projects in ADVANCE today ... if you need any help on them.

However, they are only officially due on the 12th.

MEET ONLINE @ 9:00 a.m. -- work in groups

Group meeting time - work on projects

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 to do the discussion boards.

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

Please turn in your papers through
www.turnitin.com

Turnitin instructions

Meet ONLINE @ 6 p.m.

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
· Sec III – Joanna Kadi – “Letter to Hassan” – p. 291-292

Available 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.


Questions & Current Events - link in WebCT

Please turn in your papers through
www.turnitin.com

Turnitin instructions

October 12th - Wednesday

NO synchronous online chat TODAY

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]

Discussion Board - link in WebCT
Questions & Current Events - link in WebCT

Please post your group presentation links by midnight on Monday, October 12th here:

Group Presentations

Please turn in your papers through
www.turnitin.com

Turnitin instructions

Your Online Exam #2 will be available from 9-11 a.m. today October 15th.

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 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 hour to complete it. Please budget your time accordingly.

Please turn in your papers through
www.turnitin.com

Turnitin instructions

Meet ONLINE @ 6 p.m.

Wrap up discussion for the class.