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

Meet ONLINE @ 6:00-8:00 p.m.

Please login to WebCT for our online chats: WebCT login.
Go to the "Class Chatroom" link or icon... and then click on the "Class Chatroom - Enter here for online chats!" link. That will bring you into the online chatroom for the class.

Online Responses to Introductions link in WebCT
- Due by Jan 4th @ midnight.

Instructions on how to access link: Discussion Boards

January 3rd - Thursday

REDEFINING DIFFERENCE: WHITE PRIVILEGE & RACE

Video at Library: Color of Fear.

This video will be reserved under this number: 84657

Online Links:
Peggy McIntosh Article

Meet ONLINE @ 8:00-9:30 p.m.

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

Questions Link 1 - link is available in WebCT

Instructions on how to access link: Discussion Boards

January 7th - 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

Do Discussion Boards - Due @ midnight 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
· Sec III – Joanna Kadi – “Letter to Hassan” – p. 291-292
· Sec III – Multiplicity – p. 340-341 [poem]
· Sec III - Mab Segrest, On Being White and Other Lies (243-286)

Online
· Aimee Carrillo Rowe – My Spine - Power Lines

Discussion Board 1 on readings above - available in WebCT

Instructions on how to access link: Discussion Boards

January 9th -

Wednesday

QUEERING THE SPECTRUM


DUE: Autoethnography Paper #1 – On RACE

Please turn in your papers through
www.turnitin.com

Turnitin instructions

Meet ONLINE from 8:00 - 9:30 p.m.

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 Link 2 - link is available in WebCT

Instructions on how to access link: Discussion Boards

January 10th - Thursday

Do Discussion Boards - Due @ midnight

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 2 on readings - link available in WebCT

Instructions on how to access link: Discussion Boards

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: Response Paper # 2 – On WAR.

Please turn in your papers through
www.turnitin.com

Turnitin instructions

DUE: Webpage projects

MEET online @ 8:00 - 9:30 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

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.


Please email your Webpage/Blog presentation links to me by midnight tonight.

Questions Link 3 - link is available in WebCT

Instructions on how to access link: Discussion Boards

Meet ONLINE @ 8:00 - 9:30 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 Link 4 - link is available in WebCT

Group Presentations

1. Cultural Study: http://jspinz.com/New%20Folder/rachelspage.html

2. Consumer Manipulation:
http://consumermanipulation.blogspot.com

3. Hollywood vs. Reality:
http://womenstudieswinter2008.blogspot.com/ 

4. Women in Music Videos:http://naila.browne.googlepages.com/ws350ol-musicsonggroup

5. Commercials:
http://ws350commercial.freewebpages.org/ws350commercial.html

January 17th
- Thursday

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

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 ALL 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 1.5 hours to complete it. Please budget your time accordingly.

January 18th - Friday (by midnight)

Please turn in your papers through
www.turnitin.com

Turnitin instructions