REQUIRED BOOKS:
● Howard Winant, A World is a Ghetto: Race and Democracy Since World War II (Basic Books, 2002)
● Wanni W. Anderson and Robert G. Lee eds. Displacements and Diasporas: Asians in the Americas (Rutgers University Press, 2005)
● Dana Frank, Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America (South End Press, 2005)
● Andrea Smith, Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide (South End Press, 2005)
READING SCHEDULE:
WEEK 1: Introduction
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
Introduction, Discussion of Online Course Syllabus and Selection of Discussants
Thursday, January 12, 2006: Global Approaches to Ethnic Studies
READ: Manning Marable “Globalization and Racialization” http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=30&ItemID=6034 (Online Essay)
DISCUSS: Why does Marable claim that the problem of the 21st century is the problem of “global apartheid”?
READ: E. San Juan Jr., “The Ordeal of Ethnic Studies in the Age of Globalization” in Displacements and Diasporas
DISCUSS: What needs to be done to prevent the field of Ethnic Studies from becoming a futile academic exercise?
DUE: JOURNAL #1 (10pts.)
PART ONE: NEW WORLD RACIAL SYSTEM
Week 2: Global Racial Formation and Modern World History
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
DISCUSS: Global racial formation approach to the rise of modernity (empire and nation; capital and labor; culture and identity).
READ:Introduction and Chapter 2: “The Historical Sociology of Race” in Howard Winant’s The World is a Ghetto
Thursday, January 19, 2006
DISCUSS: Explain the elemental orgins of modernity in relationship to conquest and slavery from late 1500s to early 19th centuries.
READ: Chapter 3, "Learning to Catch Hell” in Howard Winant’s The World is a Ghetto
DUE: JOURNAL #2 (20pts.)
Week 3:
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
DISCUSS: Explain the various forms of resistance to racial rule among African slaves and Native peoples.
READ: Chapter 4: “The Empire Strikes Back” Howard Winant’s The World is a Ghetto
Thursday, January 26, 2006
DISCUSS: Explain the new rationalizations of racial rule in post-slavery periods of the 19th and 20th Centuries.
READ: Chapter 5: “19th Century Nightmares, 20th Century Dreams,” in Howard Winant’s The World is a Ghetto
DUE: JOURNAL #3 (20pts.)
Week 4: Post World War II Global Racial Formation
Tuesday, January 31, 2006: United States
READ: Chapter 6 “Notes on the Postwar Break” and Chapter 7 “United States: The End of the Innocence,” in
Howard Winant’s The World is a Ghetto
DISCUSS: The main factors that led to a worldwide crisis in racial formation in the Post-World War II era (Post-Break). Which of these factors aplied to the United States?
Thursday, February 2, 2006: South Africa
READ: Chapter 8: “South Africa: When the System Has Fallen,” in Howard Winant’s The World is a Ghetto
DUE: JOURNAL #4 (20pts.)
DISCUSS: The rise and fall of racial apartheid in South Africa.
Week 5
Tuesday, February 7, 2006: Brazil
READ: Chapter 9: “Brazil: Back to the Future” in Howard Winant’s The World is a Ghetto
DUE: FINAL PAPER TOPIC
DISCUSS: In what ways is Brazil the polar opposite of South Africa in terms of racial dynamics?
Thursday, February 9, 2006: Europe
READ: Chapter 10: “Europe: The Phantom Menace” in Howard Winant’s The World is a Ghetto
DUE: JOURNAL #5 (20pts.)
DISCUSS: The rise of a "new racism" and "anti-racism" in Western Europe.
Week 6
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
READ: Conclusion "Millennium Arrives?" in Howard Winant’s The World is a Ghetto
JOURNAL: What did you learn from the global racial formation framework? Identify and explain one common thread that links the United States, Brazil, South Africa and Europe?
DUE: FINAL PAPER PROPOSAL
PART TWO: NEW RACISM IN EUROPE
Thursday, February 16, 2006
READ: Neil MacMaster, "Torture: From Algiers to Abu Ghraib"
FILM: Battle of Algiers(1966)
DUE: JOURNAL #6 (20pts.)
DUE: Submit proposals before Friday February 17, 2006 to CESconferenceWSU@hotmail.com
Week 7
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
READ: Letitia Creamean, "Membership of Foreigners: Algerians in France"
FILM: “Battle of Algiers” (1966)
CES FILM SERIES: “Living in Paradise” (1998) Tuesday, Feb. 21st at 6:00pm at CUE 316
Thursday, February 23, 2006
READ: Michele Lamont et al.,"Particular Universalisms: North African Immigrants Respond to French Racism" and Brahmani Houston, "What;s In a Name--Is France Ready for Affirmative Action?"
DUE: JOURNAL #7 (20pts.)
Week 8
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
READ:Liz Fekete, "Anti-Muslim Racism and the European Security State" (Required) and Paul Silverstein “Immigrant Racialization and the New Savage Slot: Race, Migration, and Immigration in the New Europe” (Recommended)
PART THREE: DISPLACEMENTS AND DIASPORAS
Thursday, March 2, 2006
READ: Wanni W. Anderson and Robert G. Lee, “Asian American Displacements” and
Evelyn Hu-Dehart “On Coolies and Shopkeepers” in Displacements and Diasporas
DUE: JOURNAL #8 (20pts.)
Week 9
Tuesday, March 7, 2006
READ: Jeffrey Lesser, “From Japanese to Nikkei and Back” in Displacements and Diasporas
Thursday, March 9 2006
READ: Bernard Scott Lucious, “In the Black Pacific” in Displacements and Diasporas
DUE: JOURNAL #9 (20pts.)
SPRING VACATION [March 13-17, 2006]
Week 10
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
READ: Louis-Jacques Dorais, “From Refugees to Transmigrants: The Vietnamese in Canada” in Displacements and Diasporas
DUE: ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Thursday, March 23, 2006
READ: Sunaina Maira, “Mixed Desires: Second-Generation Indian Americans and the Politics of Youth Culture in Displacements and Diasporas
DUE: JOURNAL #10 (20pts.)
PART FOUR: SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND NATIVE SOVEREIGNTY
Week 11
Tuesday, March28, 2006
READ: Chapter 1: “Sexual Violence as a Tool of Genocide” in Andrea Smith’s Conquest
Thursday, March 30th, 2006
READ: Chapter 2: “Boarding School Abuses and the Case for Reparations” and Chapter 3: “Rape of the Land” in Andrea Smith’s Conquest
DUE: JOURNAL #11 (20pts.)
Week 12
Tuesday, April 4, 2006
READ: Chapter 4 “’Better Dead than Pregnant” and Chapter 5 “’Natural Laboratories” in Andrea Smith’s Conquest
in Andrea Smith’s Conquest
Thursday, April 6th, 2006
READ” Chapter 7 “Anticolonial Responses to Gender Violence” and Chapter 8 “U.S. Empire and the War Against Native Sovereignty” in Andrea Smith’s Conquest
DUE: JOURNAL #12(20pts.)
PART FIVE: WOMEN’S RESISTANCE IN LATIN AMERICA
Week 13
Tuesday, April 11, 2006
READ: Introduction, Chapter 1: “The Work Enslaves Us” and Chapter 2: “Women’s Power Is Union Power” in
Dana Frank’s Bananeras
DUE: FINAL PAPER DRAFT
Thursday, April, 13th 2006
READ: Chapter 3:“Honduras: A Free Space” and Chapter 4: “Latin America: The Big Challenge” in Dana Frank’s Bananeras
DUE: JOURNAL #13 (20pts.)
Week 14
Tuesday, April 18, 2006
READ: Chapter 5: “The War at Home,” Chapter 6: “Global Allies” and Conclusion in Dana Frank’s Bananeras
DUE: JOURNAL #14 (10pts.)
Thursday, April, 20, 2006
FILM: "The Take" (2004)
Week 15
Tuesday, April 25, 2006
Final Paper Presentations
Thursday, April, 27, 2006
Final Paper Presentations