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American Studies 100: Race, Class, And Sexuality in u. s. Feminisms
4.00 Credits
Macalester College
This course is an interdisciplinary introduction to a variety of feminist analyses of United States history and contemporary sociopolitical life, figured around the relationship of gender to race, class, sexuality, ability, colonialism, and nationalism. Through analytical reading, writing, and discussion, the course aims to develop an understanding of gender as a tool to organize society on the basis of difference and power and as a performative practice, which is also a mode of agency and activism for positive social change. Materials from history, literature, sociology, anthropology, and film are included. Spring semester. (4 credits)
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American Studies 101: Explorations of Race And Racism
3.00 Credits
Macalester College
The main objectives of this introductory course are: to explore the historical construction of racial categories in the United States; to understand the systemic impact of racism on contemporary social processes; to consider popular views about race in the light of emerging scholarship in the field; and to develop an ability to connect personal experiences to larger, collective realities. We will engage several questions as a group: What are the historical and sociological foundations of racial categories When does focusing on race make someone racist What is white privilege, and why does it matter All students will be asked to think and write about their own racial identity. This course, or its equivalent, is required for majors and minors. No prerequisites. Spring semester. (4 credits)
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American Studies 103: The Problem of Race in u. s. Social Thought And Policy
4.00 Credits
Macalester College
This course has been developed as an entry-level exploration of the impact of race on contemporary U.S. public discourse. The course has two principle objectives: to create a forum that encourages individuals to articulate well-informed opinions and attitudes about race; and to locate those ideas in an analytic framework that promotes a shared understanding of race and racial inequality in the contemporary context. Offered Fall 2008 as a First Year Course only. (4 credits)
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American Studies 110: Introduction to African American Studies
4.00 Credits
Macalester College
This class will explore what it has meant to be African-American in the United States, and how this identity shaped Black community, thought, and life. This course, using a variety of disciplinary approaches, exposes students to issues and problems in the development of African-American identity, and provides students with theoretical tools and contextual sensibilities necessary for advanced courses and independent projects in African American Studies. Spring semester. (4 credits)
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American Studies 110 - Introduction to African American Studies
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American Studies 112: Sexuality, Race, And Nation: Introduction to Lesbian/ Gay/ Bisexual/ Transgender And Queer Studies
4.00 Credits
Macalester College
This course examines how sexuality, race, and nation relate in the lives of people in the United States, which we read in relation to histories of colonialism and globalization. Course material foreground scholarship, testimony, cultural work, and social movements by LGBT, two-spirit, same gender loving, and queer people of color, and by white LGBT and queer anti-racist allies. Their stories offer a template through which all students may examine how everyday life is shaped by sexuality, race, and nation-both as power relations, and as spaces for creating new identity and action. Every year. (4 credits)
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American Studies 112 - Sexuality, Race, And Nation: Introduction to Lesbian/ Gay/ Bisexual/ Transgender And Queer Studies
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American Studies 128: African American Religions
4.00 Credits
Macalester College
Understanding religion as the quest for ultimate orientation, this course will examine several expressions of African American religiosity. Students will explore the origin, development, belief structure, and practice of traditions such as Black Christianity, the Nation of Islam, Vodun (Voodoo), Santeria, Spiritual Churches, and Black Humanism. The goal of this course is to acquaint students with the complex nature of African American religious expression. Offered alternate years; not offered 2008-2009. (4 credits)
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American Studies 140: Black Public Intellectuals
4.00 Credits
Macalester College
This course will address the tradition of public intellectuals in numerous Black communities. We will expand the definition of "politics" to include theater, literature, and film. We will interrogate the concept of who choosesthe scholarly leaders for Black communities. We will examine numerous topics such as Communism, The American Dream, Incarceration, Feminism, and Ebony Voices in the Ivory Tower. Spring semester. (4 credits)
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American Studies 200: Critical Methods For American Studies Research
3.00 Credits
Macalester College
This course will introduce students to interdisciplinary research approaches to the study of race, ethnicity, and other categories of difference. Students will learn to conceptualize and design research projects, and will obtain hands-on experience in executing different methods. The course will also consider the critiques of systems of knowledge production and research approaches that have been informed by scholars from fields such as African American history, gender studies, and critical race studies, as well as from the disciplines. The goal is to develop an understanding of the assumptions embedded in many fields of inquiry, and to learn to apply critical approaches to important research questions. Prerequisite: American Studies 101, 103, or 110. Fall semester. (4 credits)
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American Studies 203: Race, Ethnicity, And Politics
4.00 Credits
Macalester College
This intermediate course offers an analysis of racial and ethnic factors and their implications for political processes and public policy. We begin by exploring the political history of whiteness. Our point of departure will be David R. Roediger's text (2005), "Working Toward Whiteness, How America's Immigrants Became White: ThStrange Journey from Ellis Island to the Suburbs." We will examine how "race" has been at the core of civiassimilation. This course will focus on post-1960 American and the Black, Brown, Red, and Yellow Power Movements. We will end with an analysis of conservative people of color and their counterparts in the dominant culture, and their movement to resist identity politics in the 1990s and the turn of the 21st Century. Alternate years. (4 credits)
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American Studies 210: Blacks in Paris
4.00 Credits
Macalester College
This course will look at the relationship that African Americans have had to France in the Twentieth Century. We will explore the art, literature, music and political protest that were generated in the "City of Lights." Generallyoffered alternate spring semesters; not offered in 2008-2009. (4 credits)
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