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CS92PROD
Junior Colloquium: Race and American Culture
AMST 196
Fall 2009
Section: 01  

This junior colloquium will introduce students to several texts that offer key interventions within the study of race in American literature and culture. Among the topics we will examine are the ways in which race as a lense of analysis has produced critiques of industrial modernity, nationalism, citizenship, and identity, and how racializing discourses and antiracist critiques intersect with feminist, Marxist, psychoanalytic, poststructuralist, and postmodern discourses. While most texts will focus on the U.S. context, we will consider some works of postcolonial theory that have provided influential and productive models for theorizing the cultural politics of race. We will also consider a number of recent critiques of the institutional role of ethnic studies and identity politics.

Essential Capabilities: Interpretation, Writing
This seminar will require students to closely analyze a range of theoretical texts, evaluating their approaches in several response papers, and then developing their own interpretation of a cultural text in a 12-15 page final research paper.
Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS AMST
Course Format: SeminarGrading Mode: Graded
Level: UGRD Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a Major Requirement for: (AMST)
Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available

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