GENDER, RACE, CLASS, SEXUALITY

TENTATIVE SCHEDULE: WINTER 2005


Notes:
- All Discussion Board postings are due by Friday each week.
- Please watch the films in the Media Library on your own time by the date due for discussion. Video Information Link

Date
What we're doing
Readings & Things Due
January 4th - Tuesday

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

 

Meet ONLINE @ 7 p.m.

Introductions
Email

Online Responses to Introductions and Email links above – Due by January 4, 2005



Discussion Boards - Please post by Friday, January 7th

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


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


Questions & Current Events Link




January 11th - 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

 

Meet ONLINE @ 7 p.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]

Questions & Current Events Link


Discussion Boards - Please post by Friday, January 14th.

INTERSECTIONS OF CLASS & POWER

Video at Library: Dam/Age

This video will be reserved under this number: 86365

DUE: Autoethnography Paper #1 – On RACE


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 on Class above


Questions & Current Events Link

January 16th - Sunday


QUEERING THE SPECTRUM


DUE: You can send me your links to your Group Projects in ADVANCE today ... if you need any help on them.
NOTE: They are only officially due on the 24th.


Meet ONLINE @ 7 p.m.
- Please note that this is a Sunday evening meeting.

S
ing, 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


Discussion Boards - Please post by Friday, January 21

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 Friday: 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 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.


Online Discussion Board for readings above

Questions & Current Events Link

 

 

Please take this exam by Sunday, January 23

ONLINE EXAM to be accessed through the WebCT site.
WebCT login

Your Online Exam will be available from 5-9 p.m. on Sunday, January 23rd.

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 14 Multiple Choice questions and 3 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.

January 24 - Monday (midnight)


DUE: Group projects & Individual Papers DUE

Links to your Group projects should be posted through the forum on the right. (Please also email a copy of them to me directly).

Please post your group presentation links by midnight on Monday, January 24th here:
Group Presentations


Please email your individual papers to me: sheena.malhotra@csun.edu

January 25 - Tuesday Please visit all the group project links online before we meet.

Group Presentations

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


Meet ONLINE @ 7 p.m.

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]


Questions & Current Events Link