PART I: MAKING PRIVILEGE AND OPPRESSION VISIBLE
WEEK 1:
-Monday 1/7 Introduction to the Course & Course Website
-Wednesday 1/9 Kimmel “Toward the Pedagogy of the Oppressor”[K&F]
Powerpoint #1
WEEK 2: CLASS PRIVILEGE
-Monday 1/14 Mantsios, “Class in America” [K&F]
-Wednesday 1/16 Mantsios, “Media Magic” [K&F]
Powerpoint #2
Online Article: “Class in America: Shadowy Lines that Still Divide”
Week 3: RACE PRIVILEGE
-Monday 1/21 NO CLASS—MLK Jr. Holiday----
-Wednesday 1/23 Dyer “The Matter of Whiteness” [K&F]
Powerpoint #3
VIDEO: Race:The Power of Illusion: The Difference Between Us
Week 4: RACE PRIVILEGE
-Monday 1/28 Jensen “White Privilege Shapes the U.S.”[K&F]
Levine, “White Like Me” [K&F]
Powerpoint #4
-Wednesday 1/30 Sacks, “How Jews Became White” [K&F]
VIDEO: Race: Power of Illusion: The House We Live In
Quiz#1
Week 5: GENDER PRIVILEGE
-Monday 2/4 Frye “Oppression” [K&F] & Foner, “Hiring Quotas: For White Males Only” [K&F]
Powerpoint #5
-Wednesday 2/6 Kimmel, “Masculinity as Homophobia” [K&F]
VIDEO: Tough Guise
Week 6: SEXUALITY PRIVILEGE
-Monday 2/11 Katz, “The Invention of Heterosexuality” [K&F]
Rochlin, “The Heterosexual Questionnaire” [K&F]
Powerpoint #6
-Wednesday 2/13 Messner, “Becoming 100 Percent Straight” [K&F]
VIDEO: Assault on Gay America
Week 7: INTERSECTION: RACE AND CLASS
-Monday 2/18 NO CLASS ---President’s Day----
-Wednesday 2/20 hooks, “Class and Race: the New Black Elite” [K&F] and Conley, “Universal Feckle, or How I Learned to be White” [K&F]
Powerpoint #7
Quiz#2
Week 8: INTERSECTION: RACE AND GENDER
-Monday 2/25 McIntosh, “White Privilege and Male Privilege” [K&F]
Schacht, “Teaching about Being an Oppressor” [K&F]
Powerpoint #8
Video: Hammering it Out!
-Wednesday 2/27 INTERSECTION: RACE AND SEXUALITY
Bérubé, “How Gays Stays White and What Kind of White it
Stays” [K&F]
Week 9: INTERSECTIONS: CLASS, RACE, GENDER & SEXUALITY
-Monday 3/3 Marks, “Teasing Out the Lessons of the 1960s” [K&F]
Dunbar-Ortiz, “On Being Okie” [K&F]
-Wednesday 3/5 MIDTERM EXAM
Week 10: SPRING BREAK (3/10-3/14)
PART II: RACE AND ETHNICITY IN AMERICA
Week 11:
-Monday 3/17 Berkin, “Ethnicity in 17th Century English America, 1701-1788” and Casey, “The Limits of Equality: Racial and Ethnic Tensions in the New Republic, 1789-1836” [BAYOR]
Powerpoint #9
PRIVILEGE PAPER DUE
-Wednesday 3/19 Topp “Racial and Ethnic Identity in the United States, 1837-1877” [BAYOR]
Powerpoint #10
VIDEO: Race:Power of Illusion: The Story We Tell
Week 12:
-Monday 3/24 Ngai, “Race, Nation, and Citizenship in Late 19th Century America, 1878-1900” [BAYOR]
-Wednesday 3/26 Heinze, “The Critical Period: Ethnic Emergence and Reaction, 1901-1929” [BAYOR]
Powerpoint #11
Quiz#3
Week 13:
-Monday 3/31 Guglielmo and Lewis, “Changing Racial Meanings: Race and Ethnicity in the Unites States, 1930-1964” [BAYOR]
VIDEO: Los Mineros
-Wednesday 4/2 Meagher, “Racial and Ethnic Relations in America,
1965-2000” [BAYOR]
Powerpoint #12
PART III: MAKING CONNECTIONS, MAKING CHANGE
Week 14:
-Monday 4/7 Messner, “Men as Superordinates” [K&F]
-Wednesday 4/9 Gallagher, “White Reconstruction in the University” Ferber, “Defending the Culture of Privilege” [K&F]
Class Canceled
Week 15:
-Monday 4/14 Hill Collins, “Toward a New Vision: Race, Class and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection” [K&F]
Powerpoint #13
Quiz#4
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Wednesday 4/16 Thompson, “Subverting Racism From Within: Linking White Identity to Activism” [K&F] and Kivel “Being a Strong White Ally” [K&F]
Powerpoint #14
How Muslims are treated in the U.S.A.(youtube video)
Week 16:
-Monday 4/21 Crowfoot and Chesler, “White Men’s roles in Multicultural Coalitions” [K&F]
Quiz#5
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Wednesday 4/23 Class Review and Course Evaluations
FINAL EXAM
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
TODD 404
3:10-5:10pm