Solidarity Forever: An Introduction to American Studies
AMST 170
Fall 2023
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This course is an introduction to the interdisciplinary field of American Studies. We will explore how American Studies scholarship engages "solidarity" as a subject of study and as a practice. We will consider how conversations in the field relate to resistance and activist movements across time and space, from the US/Indian Country to the transnational and the global. By covering vast topics and themes such as settler colonialism, carceral politics, labor organizing, the war on terror, and more, we will examine the questions, methods, and frameworks that animate and shape American Studies. We will reflect on the role of knowledge production in movements and struggles for justice. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS AMST |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Student Option |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (HRAD-MN) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 75% - 89% |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Sample texts may include:
Philip Deloria, Indians in Unexpected Places
Dean Spade, Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law
Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California
Laleh Khalili, Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies
Mireya Loza, Defiant Braceros: How Migrant Workers Fought for Racial, Sexual, and Political Freedom
Edward Said, The Question of Palestine
Dean Saranillio, Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawai'ian Statehood
Robin Kelley, Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
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Examinations and Assignments:
Class participation; key terms definitions; two short conversation papers; final paper |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
This course will be taught by Antonina Griecci Woodsum |
| Instructor(s): Woodsum,Antonina Griecci Times: ..T.R.. 01:20PM-02:40PM; Location: FISK413; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 25 | | SR major: 3 | JR major: 3 | | |
| Seats Available: 2 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 2 | JR non-major: 2 | SO: 8 | FR: 7 |
| Drop/Add Enrollment Requests | | | | | |
| Total Submitted Requests: 13 | 1st Ranked: 0 | 2nd Ranked: 1 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 12 |
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