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

Meet ONLINE @ 6 p.m.
Access online chats here through WebCT

Introductions - link in WebCT

Online Responses to Introductions link in WebCT – Due by September 9th - Midnight.

Instructions on how to access link: Discussion Boards

I will be emailing the class from time to time. I will use your CSUN emails to do so. Please make sure that you check your CSUN emails daily -- or go to the ITR website to arrange for mail forwarding to an email account that you DO check.

Discussion Boards - Please post by September 12th - Tuesday midnight

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

Do Discussion Boards on these readings
NO Online chat today.

Reader:
· Donna Kate Rushin – The Bridge Poem [poem]
· Cherrie Moraga – La Guera
· Nellie Wong – When I was Growing Up [poem]

Discussion Board on readings above - link in WebCT

September 19th - Tuesday

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

Meet ONLINE @ 6 p.m.
Access online chats here through WebCT

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:
· Audre Lorde – Age, race, class and sex: Women redefining difference
· Jo Carrillo – And When You Leave, Take Your Pictures With You [poem]

Questions Link - link in WebCT

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 @ 6 p.m.

Reader:
· Peggy McIntosh – White Privilege and Male Privilege (also available online)

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)

Questions Link - 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?

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

October 3rd - Tuesday

ONLINE TEST 1 to be accessed through the WebCT site.
WebCT login

DUE: Autoethnography Paper #1 – On RACE

Please turn in your papers through
www.turnitin.com

Turnitin instructions

Your Online Test 1 will be available from 6-8 p.m. TODAY.

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 TEST 1 " 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 upto September 26th. 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 be timed. Please budget your time according to exam length.

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

October 10th - Tuesday

QUEERING THE SPECTRUM

Video: WatchTransAmerica (available at Blockbuster or other video stores)

Meet ONLINE @ 6 p.m.

Reader
· Spargo: Foucault and Queer Theory. (Pp. 3-33).
· Judith Butler: Imitation and gender insubordination
· Amanda Udis-Kessler: Biphobia as a Crisis of Meaning

Questions Link - link in WebCT

QUEERING THE SPECTRUM

Do Discussion Boards on these readings

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
· Hooks – Homophobia in Black communities

Discussion Board on readings above - link in WebCT

October 24th - Tuesday

No synchronous online chat today.
Do Discussion Boards on these readings

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 above - link in WebCT

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

November 7th - Tuesday

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.

Do Discussion Boards on these readings

Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray… Text
· Sec I: Suheir Hammad – First writing since - p.3
· 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

Discussion Board for Readings above - link in WebCT

THE RACIAL AND GENDERED ASPECTS OF WAR – SPECIAL FOCUS

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: Barbara Lee – I’ve seen this war before – p. 13
· Sec I: Rosalind Pechesky – Phantom Towers… - p. 15

Available Online

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 -- DUE by November 20th. Please turn in your paper through www.turnitin.com

Questions Link - link in WebCT

November 21st - Tuesday

Do Discussion Boards on these readings

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 -- PLEASE access through link in WebCT.

Discussion Board for Readings above - link in WebCT

Meet ONLINE @ 6 p.m.

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]

Questions Link - link in WebCT

Please post your group presentation links here by midnight TODAY: Group Presentations

December 5th - Tuesday

Your Online Test 2 will be available from 6-8 p.m. TODAY.

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 TEST 2 " 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 from October 10th onwards. 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 be timed. Please budget your time according to exam length.

December 12th - Tuesday

Please visit all the group project links online before we meet.

Individual Papers DUE

Please turn in your papers through
www.turnitin.com

Turnitin instructions

Meet ONLINE @ 6 p.m.

Overview and wrap up discussion for the class.