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Academic Year 2002/2003
Introduction to Ethnic Studies
AMST 217 SP
This introduction to ethnic studies will survey selected historical moments, geographical and institutional sites, cases and periods to explore complexities of life in the United States. Turning to the entangled
histories
of colonialism, slavery, imperialism, racism, disenfranchisement, and labor, we will examine how different peoples become "American." We will focus on the racialization of American Indians, African Americans, Pacific
Islanders,
Chicanos and Latinos, and Asian Americans with regard to contested, and often contradictory, notions of identity and citizenship across multiple categories of difference including gender, class, ethnicity, and sexuality.
With special attention to U.S. congressional plenary power, the U.S. Supreme Court, and questions of agency and resistance, we will come to better understand how differently situated people(s) negotiate state-structured
systems of exclusion and assimilation in relation to formations and practices of culture, community, sovereignty, democracy, equality, and self-determination.
MAJOR READINGS
THE HOUSE THAT RACE BUILT, Ed. Wahneema Lubiano
RACE, RIGHTS AND THE ASIAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, Angelo Ancheta
RACIAL FORMATION IN THE UNITED STATES, Howard Winant and Michael Omi
A DIFFERENT MIRROR: A HISTORY
OF MULTICULTURAL AMERICA, Ronald
Takaki
AMERICAN INDIAN SOVEREIGNTY AND THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT: THE MASKING OF JUSTICE, David E. Wilkins
LATINO CULTURAL CITIZENSHIP: CLAIMING IDENTITY, SPACE, AND RIGHTS, Eds. William V. Flores and Rina
Benmayer
THIS BRIDGE CALLED MY BAC
K, WRITINGS BY RADICAL WOMEN OF COLOR, Eds. Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua
Films and Videos:
BLACK IS, BLACK AIN'T
SIEMPRE, PALANTE, SIEMPRE
SAVAGE ACTS
ACT OF WAR: THE OVERTHROW OF THE HAWAIIAN
NATION
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Students are required to complete all course books and articles, in-class and homework assignments, and response papers that address the weekly readings. There will be an in-class mid-term exam and a take home final
exam. Besides the occasional in-class
assignments, students are required to submit two reading response papers (5-7 pages each). Class evaluation will be based on class attendance, assignments and participation (50%), a mid-term exam (20%), and the final
exam (30%).
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:
Lecture/Discussion
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS AMST
Grading Mode:
Graded
Prerequisites:
NONE
SECTION 01
- Instructor(s): Kauanui,J. Kehaulani
- Times: ..T.R.. 01:10PM-02:30PM; Location: FISK210
- Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 40)
- SR. major: 8 Jr. major: 12
- SR. non-major: 2 Jr. non-major: 2 SO: 8 FR: 8
Special Attributes:
- Curricular Renewal: Writing
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Last Updated on MAR-18-2003
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