SBS 301 Cultural Diversity/Koptiuch
Fall 2002 ASU West
SYLLABUS
BB = Electronic Reserves onBlackboard Conference
WK 1 8/27 INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE: Who is the "We"
in "We the People"?
VIDEO: The
Color of Fear (Lee Mun Wah, 1994) (first 40 min)
WK 2 9/3 CONCEPTS OF CULTURE //CONSTRUCTION OF OTHERNESS
Why culture now? Why
"race"? Diversity or Difference? Anti-racism/Multiculturalism?
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Williams- "The Emperor's New Clothes" (xerox)
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Donald & Rattansi--"Introduction" to Race,
Culture and Difference (xerox)
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Rattansi- "Changing the subject? Racism, culture
and education"(xerox)
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Sassen--"Why Migration?" (BB)
VIDEOS: Michael
Jackson: "Black or White" (I'm Dangerous); Public Enemy: "By the time
I get to Arizona"; In Living Color: "Am I Black or White? (I'm Not Dangerous)";
Race,
The Floating Signifier? (Stuart Hall,1996)-intro only?
DUE: PERSONAL
MEMORY ETHNOGRAPHY #1
WK 3 9/10 LOCATING SELVES, SITUATING KNOWLEDGE IN
A TRANSNATIONAL ERA
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Hooks--Black Looks
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"Eating the Other" (chapter 2)
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"Revolutionary Black Women" (chapter 3)
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Alcoff-"The Problem of Speaking for Others"
(xerox)
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Spivak--"Questions of Multi-culturalism" (BB)
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Schiller et al-"Transnationalism: A New Analytic
Framework for Understanding Migration" (xerox)
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Jordan-"Report from the Bahamas" (xerox)
VIDEO: Bell
Hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation (1997)-clip on why"white
supremacist capitalist patriarchy"
DUE: CRITICAL
ESSAY #1 on at least two articles (Required of
everyone)
WK 4 9/17 BORDERLANDS OF DIFFERENCE
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Anzaldua--Borderlands/La Frontera (chapters
1-7)
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Hooks--Black Looks--"Revolutionary Renegades"
(chapter 12)
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Fusco--"The Border Art Workshop/Taller de Arte
Fronterizo" (xerox)
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Hall--"Minimal Selves" (BB)
VIDEO: The
Couple in the Cage (Gomez Peña & Coco Fusco 1993,
clip); Border
Brujo (Guillermo Gomez Peña 1995, clip)
RECOMMENDED:Lone
Star (John Sayles 1996)
MUSIC: El Vez--"Nunca fui a Espana"
from Fun in Espanol; Kool Keith--"Black Elvis: Lost in Space"
WEB: check
out dr. k's Multicultural
Elvis web page!
DUE: CRITICAL
ESSAY #2 on Anzaldua
WK 5 9/24 (EN)COUNTERING WHITE MYTHOLOGIES: Critical
studies of whiteness
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Rothenberg (ed.)--White Privilege, Parts
I and II (thru p. 85)
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Dyer-"White" (BB?)
VIDEO: Night
of the Living Dead (fast forward)
MUSIC: White Zombie--selections
Explore
fascinating sites on the CRITICAL
STUDY OF WHITENESS!
DUE: PERSONAL MEMORY
ETHNOGRAPHY #2 (handout)
WK 6 10/1 (UN)LEARNING WHITENESS
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Rothenberg (ed.)--White Privilege, Parts
III and IV
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Lopez--"White by Law" (xerox)
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Newitz & Wray--"Introduction" to White
Trash: Race & Class in America
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Thandeka--SELECTIONS ON THE "RACE GAME" FROM
Learning
to Be White (BB)
PLAY THE "RACE GAME" ALL WEEK and REPORT BACK!
RECOMMENDED: video festival on
whiteness (practice your critical analysis!): The Trigger Effect, Falling
Down, As Good As It Gets, White Man's Burden, [Pi], Ice Storm,
The Ghost and the Darkness, Fight Club, Signs
DUE: CRITICAL
ESSAY #3 on at least two articles
on whiteness
WK 7 10/8 LOOKING BACK: GAZING AGAINST THE GRAIN
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Kaplan--"Is the Gaze Male?" (xerox-clip)
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Diawara--"Black Spectatorship: Problems of Identification
and Resistance" (xerox)
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Hooks--Black Looks
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"The Oppositional Gaze" (chapter 7)
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"Loving Blackness as Political Resistance" (chapter
1)
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"Black Masculinity" (chapter 6)
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Lugones--"Hablando cara a cara...exploration
of ethnocentric racism" (xerox)
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Fuss--"The Homospectatorial Look" (xerox-clip)
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Bonacich--"The Class Question in Global Capitalism:
the Case of the Los Angeles Garment Industry" (xerox)
MUSIC: Sly & the Family Stone--"Don't
Call Me Nigger, Whitey"; Ice-T- "Straight Up Nigga" ; Public Enemy--"Fear
of a Black Planet"
VIDEOS: Birth
of a Nation (D.W. Griffith, 1915--the "Gus chase" sequence), Black
Is...Black Ain't (Marlon Riggs, 1995) clip on gendered blackness, with
bell hooks, Cornel West, Barbara Smith, Michelle Wallace, Essex Hemphill)
(11 min)
DUE: PERSONAL MEMORY
ETHNOGRAPHY #3 & #4
WK 8 10/15 REMEMORIES
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Toni Morrison--Beloved [Thick
book--Start reading early! Awesome! Don't watch the Opra movie!!!]
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Pajaczkowska & Young-"Racism, representation,
psychoanalysis" (xerox)
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Milun-"(En)countering Imperialist Nostalgia:
the Indian Reburial Issue"(BB)
MUSIC: Billie Holiday--"Strange Fruit"
(1939)
VIDEOS: Toni
Morrison (30 min), Unearthing
the Slave Trade (1993)
DUE: CRITICAL
ESSAY #4 on Morrison
WK 9 10/22 ASIAN DIASPORAS AND UNEVEN DEVELOPMENTS
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Peter Kwong--Forbidden Workers: Illegal Chinese
Immigrants and American Labor
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Court cases--US v Wong Kim Ark (1889); Korematsu
v US (1944) (BB)
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Morley & Robins-"Techno-Orientalism: Futures,
Foreigners & Phobias" (xerox)
VIDEOS: All
Orientals Look the Same (Valerie Soe 1986, 1:30 min!!); Family
Gathering (Lisa Yasui 1988, 30 min)
DUE: PERSONAL MEMORY
ETHNOGRAPHY #5 (final version--graded only after you make corrections &
submit revisions electronically for web site)
WK 10 10/29 IMMIGRATION, ACCULTURATION, ALIEN NATION?
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Leo R. Chavez--Shadowed Lives: Undocumented
Immigrants in American Society
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Cooper- "The Heartland's Raw Deal" (BB)
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Rodriguez- "The Real 'New World Order'" (BB)
VIDEO: Uneasy
Neighbors (Espinosa 1989) (35 min)
ALIEN CLIPS: compare/contrast on
Alien
Others: Men in Black/The Arrival vs X-Men/Mission
to Mars
RECOMMENDED: Displaced
in the New South (Zerger & Mofford, 1995); also see Water World,
Contact,
etc
DUE: CRITICAL
ESSAY #5 on Chavez
WK 11 11/5 HOT CULTURAL POLITICS OF REPRESENTING "DIFFERENCE"
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Gilman--"Black Bodies, White Bodies..." (xerox)
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Hooks--Black Looks
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"A Feminist Challenge" (chapter 5)
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"Is Paris Burning?" (chapter 9)
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"Madonna" (chapter 10)
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"Selling Hot Pussy" (chapter 4)
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C. Smith--"What is This Thing Called Queer?"
(xerox)
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Warner--"Fear of a Queer Planet" (xerox)
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B. Smith--"Whereâs the Revolution?" (BB)
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Alison- "A Question of Class" (xerox)
MUSIC: Madonna (of course!)
VIDEO: Paris
is Burning (Jennie Livingston 1992, clips), Black
Is...Black Ain't (Marlon Riggs, 1995) clip on sexualized blackness;
Bell
Hooks: Cultural Criticism & Transformation (1997) -clip on Madonna
(5 min)
DUE: CRITICAL
ESSAY #6 on at least two of these articles
Exam questions to be handed out today in class
WK 12 11/12 IN-CLASS
PARTICIPATORY EXAM---Don't Miss It!!!!
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Study questions, prepare your answers to all questions
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Take notes of two or three points you would make
on each question
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We will discuss your answers in class (by groups
and together)!
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MUST BE PRESENT TO RECEIVE CREDIT (10%)
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Or must submit written exam if absence is unavoidable
(5 pp. typed, double spaced)
WK 13 11/19 EXPLAIN CULTURAL
DIVERSITY CASE STUDY FIELD PROJECTS
WK 14 11/26 DUE: MEDIA
MAPPING--"Who Do We Think We Are?"
CULTURAL DIVERSITY MEDIA
MAPPING EXHIBITION
Everyone will give a brief presentation
of their maps!
Guest performance by Leopard
Lady?
WK 15 12/3 NO CLASS--WORK ON CASE STUDY FIELD
PROJECTS!
WK 16 12/10 DUE: BRIEF PRESENTATIONS
AND FINAL PAPERS ON YOUR
CULTURAL
DIVERSITY CASE STUDY FIELD PROJECTS
Presentation required as 10%
of your paper grade! (only 3-4 minutes)
ALL ASSIGNMENTS MUST BE IN TODAY!!
(Check with Dr. K. to see if you owe any assignments!)
NO EXCEPTIONS!!
: NO INCOMPLETES ! !
Withdrawal deadlines: unrestricted-September
20, restricted-November 1, 2002.
Graduation application filing period
9/3-11/15/02
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