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Academic Year 2001/2002
Junior Colloquium: Methodologies in Ethnic Studies
AMST 207 SP
This seminar is geared toward exploring a wide-variety of approaches to Ethnic Studies. We will examine methodologies within this field by attending to a selection of recuperated histories within a range of different
geographical sites and regions,
communities, and political terrains. We will focus on race, class, gender, and sexuality as interconnected categories of analysis in research methods by turning to particular studies of colonization and sovereignty,
citizenship, immigration, political
activism and resistance, enfranchisement and civil rights, religion, diaspora, cultural production, and self-determination. Readings will include historical, literary, sociological, and anthropological works, as well as
comparitive and interdisciplinary
scholarship.
MAJOR READINGS
THE NATIONS WITHIN: THE PAST AND FUTURE OF AMERICAN INDIAN SOVEREIGNTY, Vine Deloria
AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN AND THE VOTE, 1837-1965, Eds. Ann D. Gordan, et.al.
RACIAL FAULT LINES: THE HISTORICAL ORIGINS OF WHITE
SUPREMACY IN CALIFORNIA, Tomas
Almaguer
A NEW SIGNIFICANCE: RE-ENVISIONING THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN WEST, Ed. Clyde A. Milner II
THE DECOLONIAL IMAGINARY: WRITING CHICANAS INTO HISTORY, Emma Perez
MY MUSIC IS MY FLAG: PUERTO RICAN
MUSICIANS AND THEIR NEW YORK COMMUNITIES,
1917-1940, Ruth Glassner
IMMIGRANT ACTS: ON ASIAN AMERICAN CULTURAL POLITICS, Lisa Lowe
BAYNARD RUSTIN AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT, Daniel Levine
READING RODNEY KING/READING URBAN UPRISING, Ed. Robert
Gooding-Williams
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Students will be required to submit critical response papers based on course readings and discussion. An in-class presentation based on the reading material is also expected. The final project to be assigned is a
research proposal of 15-20 pages where
students outline a project and justify their own approach and methods, situated within a literature review.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
Students who wish to use this course to satisy research requirements of their major program face special deadlines and assignments.
Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed
Drop/Add form to the Registrar's
Office.
COURSE FORMAT:
Seminar
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS AMST
Grading Mode:
Graded
Prerequisites:
NONE
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Last Updated on MAR-19-2002
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