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Academic Year 2002/2003
The Trickster and the Stranger in the Making of American Culture
SOC 399 SP
The seminar invites research and analysis of the role of tricksters, outsiders, and strangers in the making of American Culture, with an emphasis on late 19th through 20th century. Among the subjects considered will be
Muhammad Ali, Rosa Parks, Crazy Horse, Gloria Anzaldua, South Asian and Chinese Americans. Students will read both fiction and non-fiction. The idea of an "America" will be taken as a topic for analysis of culture as a
cover for exclusion in the name of inclusion. Instances of disruption and transformation of the cultural norm will be considered.
MAJOR READINGS
Taylor Branch, PARTING THE WATERS Alexander Bloom and Wini Breines, TAKIN' IT TO THE STREETS John Patrick Diggins, THE PROUD DECADES And selected books and articles on the New Social Movements, including feminism
and queer politics.
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Short papers, group research and presentation, perfect attendance, a major research paper.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
Please do not register if you are unwilling to read all the assignments and attend every class. 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 SOC
Grading Mode:
Graded
Prerequisites:
SOC151
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Last Updated on MAR-18-2003
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