Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 36) 12/14/2009 M 2.00 Areas Hu The history of women and gender roles from the English settlement of the North American coast to 1900. Emphasis on work and family roles, social and political movements, and regional, racial, and cultural variation.
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MW 10.30-11.20 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 33) 12/18/2009 F 9.00 Areas Hu An introduction to the history of East, South, and Southeast Asian migrations and settlement to the United States from the late eighteenth century to the present. Major themes include labor migration, community formation, U.S. imperialism, legal exclusion, racial segregation, gender and sexuality, cultural representations, and political resistance.
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M 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Examination of black women?s literary texts from the post-civil rights era. Exploration of the ways writers construct and contest the cultural, ideological, and political parameters of black womanhood. Topics include narrative strategy, modes of representation, and textual depictions of the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, color, ethnicity, nationality, class, and generation. Texts placed within the context of black women?s literary legacies.
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Th 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Introduction to captivity narratives from colonial and nineteenth-century America. Settler narratives placed in dialogue with slave narratives and Native American pictographic sketchbooks produced in military forts. Contemporary captivity narratives from the U.S. war in Iraq and other conflicts compared with narrative forms and themes from the colonial period.
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T 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required Identities, strategies, and modes of incorporation of contemporary immigrants in U.S. society and culture. Constructions and practices of ethnicity, race, gender, and national and transnational belonging. Focus on post-1965 immigration, with some attention to earlier twentieth-century immigrant groups.
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MW 1.00-2.15 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 36) 12/14/2009 M 2.00 Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Historical, political, and aesthetic roots of Chicano and Latino literature in short stories, novels, poetry, plays, essays, literary criticism, and the performance genres of spoken word, theater, and film.
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MW 9.25-10.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Pre-Industrial Course Survey of the history of federal Indian law and policy, highlighting the political achievements of American Indian communities over the past four decades.
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W 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Examination of mixed-race matters in both literary and critical writings, primarily within the black/white schema. Historical and current questions of black and interracial identity; the contemporary ?mixed race movement? and the emerging rubric of ?critical mixed race studies?; historical genealogy of interraciality and hybridity. Analysis of long-standing debates on race mixing in the realms of legal classification, transracial adoption, census taking, grassroots movements, the discursive, the ideological, and the popular.
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MW 1.00-2.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Skills WR Areas Hu A cross-cultural dialogue focusing on family, gender, and identity. An exploration of how specific Asian countries and people approach issues of religion, dress, education, and food as identity markers; U.S. perceptions and reactions to similar issues.
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T 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Approaches to theorizing performance, in particular dance performance of a black diaspora. Uncovering methodologies pertinent to the discovery and analysis of dance performance, intersections of black popular culture, and concepts of the corporeal.
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T 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required Exploration of the meanings and attachments that connect Muslims in the U.S. to homelands in the Muslim world. How to define and apply the concept of diaspora to an ever-broadening set of Muslim populations dispersed in space, including immigrants, expatriates, refugees, guest-workers, exiles, and religious seekers. Analysis of newspaper articles, political comics, memoirs, fiction, ethnographies, political essays, sociological surveys, and documentary films.
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T 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Skills WR Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Topics include the Living Theater, Happenings, Cunningham/Cage, Open Theater, Judson Dance Theater, Grand Union, Bread and Puppet Theater, Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Meredith Monk, Mabou Mines, Robert Wilson, and the Wooster Group.
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Th 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Depictions of American landscapes as a way to achieve resonance in poetry. Focus on domestic, public, urban, and rural landscapes in New England, Chicago and the Midwest, New York and New Jersey, and Los Angeles. Attention to poems from a national automotive landscape as well as narrative poems about cities.
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T 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu, So Permission of instructor required An interdisciplinary course in American history, literature, the arts, and society, organized around a common core of texts. Topic for fall 2009: contemporary American fiction and globalization. Topic for spring 2010: ethnography and ?poverty?s culture wars.?
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TTh 2.30-3.45 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Religious dimensions of consumer culture. Popular arts and media that portray religion and religious ideas and that serve the 'religious' purpose of conveying meaning in the values they represent. Intersections of faith and capital, image and representation. Meanings that can be ascribed to cartoon caricatures, religious accessory, or tabloid frenzy.
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W 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Skills WR Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Asian American women as key historical actors. Gender analysis is used to reexamine themes in Asian American history: immigration, labor, community, cultural representations, political organizing, sexuality, and marriage and family life.
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T 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Skills WR Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Conceptualizations of the Americas from the era of Monroe and BolÃvar to that of Bush and Chávez. Consideration of connections between international relations and culture through the study of diplomacy, ideology, geography, art, literature, and film.
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M 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Skills WR Areas Hu Permission of instructor required The complete works of Ralph Ellison and related works (in various art forms) of his contemporaries, including Wright, Baldwin, Bearden, and Louis Armstrong.
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T 2.30-4.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required An introduction to the use of goods and objects - from eighteenth-century tea sets to twentieth-century television sets - as primary sources in cultural history. Examination of the various ways material culture has been understood by historians, theorists, archaeologists, marketers, collectors, museums, and consumers.
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M 6.30-10.30p Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Meets during reading period Examination of documentary and related nonfiction forms in the last three decades. Issues include film truth, performance, ethics, race and gender, and the filmmaker as participant-observer. Filmmakers include Frederick Wiseman, William Greaves, Chris Choy, Errol Morris, Lourdes Portillo, Trin T. Minh-Ha, Sue Friedrich, and Marlon Riggs.
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TTh 1.00-2.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Introduction to the cultural study of vernacular musics in the era of sound recording. The rise of the music industry from sheet music to MP3s. Ethnographic field recording and twentieth-century revivals of folk musics; popular urban music cultures of ports and industrial cities; and global circulation of commercial vernacular musics from jazz, tango, and hula to salsa and hip-hop.
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M 9.25-11.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required An examination of contemporary literature written by Caribbean writers who have migrated to, or who journey between, different countries around the Atlantic rim. Focus on literature written in English in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, both fiction and nonfiction. Writers include Caryl Phillips, Nalo Hopkinson, and Jamaica Kincaid.
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Th 9.25-11.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Senior Seminar Permission of instructor required The experiences of Native Americans during centuries of relations with North America's first imperial power, Spain. The history and long-term legacies of Spanish colonialism from Florida to California.
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M 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required Meets during reading period The representation of Muslims in the United States and abroad throughout the twentieth century. The place of Islam in the American imagination; intersections between concerns of race and citizenship in the United States and foreign policies directed toward the Middle East.
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W 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required The African American practice of poetry between 1900 and 1960, especially of sonnets, ballads, sermonic, and blues poems. Poets studied include Paul Laurence Dunbar, Langston Hughes, Sterling Brown, Gwendolyn Brooks, Margaret Walker, and Robert Hayden. Includes sessions at the Beinecke Library for inspection and discussion of original editions, manuscripts, letters, and other archival material.
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