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
|
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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.
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
|
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.
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| 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
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