Race, Violence, and Memory Cultures
CHUM 336
Fall 2011
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01
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| Crosslisting:
SOC 296 |
How do memory cultures take shape around the experience, recollection, and representation of collective trauma? How do these styles of remembrance shape public debate over the nature and legacies of histories of violence? From the United States to South Africa, this course will trace the way official and unofficial efforts to represent collective trauma provoke debates about group identity and boundaries, as well as the nature of memory itself. From popular films and public art to memorial sites and museum exhibitions, we will study the politics and aesthetics of recalling traumatic pasts as a form of history-making in postconflict settings. Combining sociological approaches to racialized conflict and collective memory with insights from history, anthropology, and cultural geography, we will investigate how memory cultures take shape as communities grapple with the physical and emotional legacies of violent pasts. |
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Essential Capabilities:
Intercultural Literacy |
| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS CHUM |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (SOC) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
1.THE COLLECTIVE MEMORY READER (ISBN-10: 0195337425)
2.SLAVERY AND PUBLIC HISTORY: THE TOUGH STUFF OF AMERICAN MEMORY(ISBN-10: 0807859168)
3.THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN AMERICAN MEMORY (ISBN-10: 0820328146)
4.WHO OWNS NATIVE CULTURE? (ISBN-10: 0674016335)
5.HISTORY AFTER APARTHEID: VISUAL CULTURE AND PUBLIC MEMORY IN A DEMOCRATIC SOUTH AFRICA (ISBN-10: 0822330725)
6.THE TEXTURE OF MEMORY: HOLOCAUST MEMORIALS AND MEANING (ISBN-10: 0300059914)
7.UNSETTLING ACCOUNTS: NEITHER TRUTH NOR RECONCILIATION IN CONFESSIONS OF STATE VIOLENCE (ISBN-10: 0822340828)
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Examinations and Assignments:
Weekly reading responses, formal presentation, group activities, final research paper |
| Instructor(s): Autry,Robyn Kimberley Times: .M.W... 11:00AM-12:20PM; Location: CFH106; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 16 | | SR major: 2 | JR major: 2 | | |
| Seats Available: 0 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 5 | JR non-major: 5 | SO: 2 | FR: 0 |
| Drop/Add Enrollment Requests | | | | | |
| Total Submitted Requests: 2 | 1st Ranked: 1 | 2nd Ranked: 0 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 1 |
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