Race and Citizenship: Introduction to American Studies
AMST 176
Spring 2015 not offered
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This course is intended as an introduction to interdisciplinary thought, to American studies as a field, and to the hemispheric and transnational intellectual direction of the American Studies Program at Wesleyan. Its goal is to answer the question, What IS American studies? The focus for this semester is race and citizenship. Turning to the entangled histories of settler colonialism, slavery, imperialism, immigration, racism, and disenfranchisement, the class will examine how different peoples become American and how differently situated people(s) negotiate state-structured systems of racial exclusion and assimilation in relation to democracy, equality, and self-determination. How have nationality and citizenship in the United States always been structured by race? What is the difference between race and ethnicity? What is color-blind ideology? What can we make of recent assertions that we are living in a "postracial" America? |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS AMST |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (AMST)(CSCT)(EDST) |
Major Readings:
Michael Omi and Howard Winant, RACIAL FORMATION IN THE UNITED STATES
Ronald Takaki, A DIFFERENT MIRROR: A HISTORY OF MULTICULTURAL AMERICA
Tomás Almaguer, RACIAL FAULT LINES: THE HISTORICAL ORIGINS OF WHITE SUPREMACY IN CALIFORNIA
Angelo Ancheta, RACE, RIGHTS, AND THE ASIAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
Laura Gomez, MANIFEST DESTINIES: THE MAKING OF THE MEXICAN AMERICAN RACE
Juan Gonzales, HARVEST OF EMPIRE: A HISTORY OF LATINOS IN AMERICA
Eds. Daniel Martinez HoSang, et al, RACIAL FORMATION IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Michelle Alexander, THE NEW JIM CROW: MASS INCARCERATION IN THE AGE OF COLORBLINDNESS
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Examinations and Assignments:
Three 3-5 pp papers, a mid-term exam, and final take-home assignment |
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