Notes:
- Everything is DUE ON THE DAY against which it is listed
- On the days we meet online -- assignments are due by 6 p.m.
- On the days we do NOT meet online - assignments are due by midnight

- This class is meant to be a Mon/Wed class. We will meet on Mondays... and then you will post things to the Discussion Boards on Wednesdays. However, to give you a bigger gap for the readings... I have made discussion boards due on Thursdays. You are of course, welcome to post by Wednesday or anytime before -- if you so wish.

- Please watch the films in the Media Library on your own time by the date due for discussion. Video Information Link
- Access the online chats through WebCT by clicking here: WebCT
- Notes on how the Discussion Boards/Question Links work: Discussion Boards

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 May 30th - 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.

June 2nd - Monday

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

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:
· 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

Questions Link 1 - link in WebCT - DUE before 6 p.m. today!

Please post to Discussion Boards by MIDNIGHT on

June 5th - Thursday

QUEERING THE SPECTRUM

Do Discussion Boards 1 on these readings [DUE by midnight].

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

Discussion Board 1 on readings above - link in WebCT

REDEFINING DIFFERENCE: WHITE PRIVILEGE & Discussion of readings on Queering the Spectrum.

Video at Library: Color of Fear.

This video will be reserved under this number: 84657

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

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)

Reader:
· Peggy McIntosh – White Privilege and Male Privilege (also available online below)
· Jo Carrillo – And When You Leave, Take Your Pictures With You [poem]

Online
· Obama's Race Speech
· Peggy McIntosh Article
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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?

Questions Link 2 - link in WebCT - DUE before 6 p.m. today!

Please post to Discussion Boards by MIDNIGHT on

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

DUE: Autoethnography Paper #1 – On RACE

Please turn in your papers through
www.turnitin.com

Turnitin instructions

Do Discussion Boards 2 on these readings [DUE by midnight]

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 Walter Mosley article – An African American Appeal for Peace

Discussion Board 2 for Readings above - link in WebCT

June 16th - Monday

THE RACIAL AND GENDERED ASPECTS OF WAR – SPECIAL FOCUS

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

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 Roy article: Instant Mix Imperial Democracy


Extra Credit Opportunity: Watch Farenheit 9/11 and write a one page reaction to it -- DUE by June 22nd. Please turn in your paper through www.turnitin.com

Questions Link 3 - link in WebCT - DUE before 6 p.m. today!

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

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

Please turn in your papers through
www.turnitin.com

Turnitin instructions

June 23rd - Monday

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

Reader:
· Arundathi Roy - The reincarnation of Rumpelstillskin
· Patricia J. Williams – Of race and risk
· Donna Langston – Tired of Playing Monopoly?

Questions Link 4 - link in WebCT - - DUE before 6 p.m. today!

INTERSECTIONS OF CLASS & POWER

Do Discussion Boards 4 on these readings [DUE by midnight]

Reader:

· Barbara Ehrenreich – The Silenced Majority
· Gar Alperovitz – Tax the Plutocrats
· Suniti Namjoshi – Magpie [poem]
· Audre Lorde – The Art of Response [poem]

Discussion Boards 4 - link in WebCT - DUE by midnight

THEORY IN THE FLESH: Resistance along the Intersections.

GROUP PROJECT DISCUSSIONS

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

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

Reader

· Audre Lorde – The Erotic as Power
· Bell hooks – Love as the practice of freedom
· Marge Piercy – The Low Road [poem]

Overview and wrap up discussion for the class.

1. magazines: http://themagazineanalysts.blogspot.com/

2. Dove: http://www.myspace.com/ws350dove

3. beer ads: http://lizzi350.livejournal.com/907.html

4. tsunami: http://tsunamidisasterunfoldinginsouthasia.blogspot.com

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

Based on a class vote... your Online Exam 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 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 be timed. Please budget your time according to exam length.

Individual Papers DUE

Please turn in your papers through
www.turnitin.com

Turnitin instructions

Individual Papers are DUE by midnight tonight.