| Date | Topic | Readings | Assignments |
| Week 1
Jan. 21 |
Introduction: What is "Justice"? | ||
| Week 2
Jan. 25 |
"Just Us"? | Daniel Wideman, "Free Papers" | Short Writing Assignment #1 handed out (for WWW publishing) |
| Jan. 28 | Section I: Multiple Positionalities
Identities, Family, Memory |
Richard Rodriguez, "On Becoming a Chicano
Richard Rodriguez, from Hunger of Memory Cherrie Moraga, "La Guera" |
Writing Assignment #1 due
Web publishing in class |
| Week 3
Feb. 1 |
Campus Guest Speaker: Dr. Dwight Hopkins, University of Chicago: "1619 1620: Two Arrivals & Two Americas" | Dwight Hopkins, reading TBA | |
| Feb. 4 | What is "Race"? | Ian Haney Lopez, "The Social Construction of Race"
Ian Haney Lopez, "White by Law" David Theo Goldberg, "Taking Stock: Counting by Race" |
WWW Writing Assignment #2 handed out |
| Week 4
Feb. 8 |
Race, Gender, Sexualities | Rhonda Williams, "Living at the Crossroads: Explorations in Race, Nationality, Sexuality and Gender" Kendall Thomas, "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing: Black Masculinity, Gay Sexuality, and the Jargon of Authenticity" | |
| Feb. 11 | Beyond Binary Thinking: Self/Other, Subject/Object, Public/Private | Patricia Williams, "Teleology on the Rocks" | WWW Writing Assignment #2 due
WWW Writing Assignment #3 handed out |
| Week 5
Feb. 15 |
President's Day Holiday
No Class |
Begin reading Keller's Comfort Woman | |
| Feb. 18 | Work in class on Writing Assignment #3 | ||
| Week 6
Feb. 22 |
Individual Conferences, Weller 4a | ||
| Feb. 25 | Section II Racial Constructions and National Legitimation:
Whose Stories?
"Suspect Classification" and Nation-Formation |
Korematsu v. United States
Angelo Ancheta, "Looking Like the Enemy" |
Full Website from Section I due by the beginning of class. |
| Week 7
Mar. 1 |
Gender, Nation, Dislocation | Nora Okja Keller, Comfort Woman | Paper topic #1 handed out |
| Mar. 4 | Nora Okja Keller, Comfort Woman | ||
| Week 8
Mar. 8, 11 |
Spring Break
No classes |
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| Week 9
Mar. 15 |
Writing Workshop | Drafts due at the beginning of class. | |
| Mar. 18 | WWW searches: Finding Hidden Stories | WWW search assignment handed out.
Paper #1 due at the beginning of class. |
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| Week 10
Mar. 22 |
"Asian/Pacific Islander": Complexities of Racial Formations and Resistances | Chris Iijima, "The Era of We-Construction: Reclaming the
Politics of Asian Pacific American Identity and Reflections on the Critique
of the Black/White Paradigm" (pp. 1-18 required, pp. 18-34 optional)
Yen Le Espiritu and Paul Ong, "Class Constraints on Racial Solidarity among Asian Americans" (optional) |
Web search assignments due at the beginning of class. |
| Mar. 25 | Section III Race, Criminalization and Confinement
The Prison Industrial Complex |
Angela Davis, "Race and Criminalization: Black Americans and the Punishment Industry" | |
| Week 11
Mar. 29 |
"Danger" and Racialization | Randall Kennedy, "Race, Law, and Suspicion: Using Color as a Proxy for Dangerousness" | Paper topic #2 handed out. |
| Apr. 1 | Writing and Resistance | Mumia Abu-Jamal, Selections from Live from Death Row ("Introduction," by John Edgar Wideman; "Teetering on the Brink of Life and Death," by Mumia Abu-Jamal; "The Trial of Mumia Abu-Jamal," by Leonard Weinglass) | |
| Week 12
Apr. 5 |
Rights and Race | Patricia Williams, "Fire and Ice"
Patricia Williams, "The Death of the Profane" |
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| Apr. 8 | Writing Workshop | Paper drafts due at the beginning of class. | |
| Week 13
Apr. 12 |
Section IV Borderland Transformations
Cultural Transformations |
Sandra Cisneros, "Woman Hollering Creek" | |
| Apr. 15 | Mestizaje | Gloria Anzaldua, Selections from Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza ("How to Tame a Wild Tongue," "La conciencia de la mestiza/Towards a New Consciousness") | Paper #2 due at the beginning of class.
Paper topic #3 handed out |
| Week 14
Apr. 19 |
"Nation," Citizenship, Culture and Difference | Renato Rosaldo, "Cultural Citizenship, Inequality, and Multiculturalism"
Blanca Silvestrini, "'The World We Enter When Claiming Rights: Latinos and Their Quest for Culture" |
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| Apr. 22 | Writing Workshop | Paper drafts due at the beginning of class. | |
| Week 15
Apr. 26 |
Section V Reconstructing "We, the People"
Who are "We"? |
William Flores, "Citizens vs. Citizenry: Undocumented Immigrants
and Latino Cultural Citizenship"
Genevieve Chato and Christine Conte, "The Legal Rights of American Indian Women" (optional) |
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| Apr. 29 | Positionalities and the Question of "Justice" (revisited) | Patricia Williams, "The Pain of Word Bondage" | |
| Finals Week | Paper #3 due Monday, May 3, 5 p.m.
Paper #4 (re-write of one of your previously graded papers) due Friday, May 7, 5 p.m. |