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A survey of the growth of the American economy from pre-Columbian times to the present. Special attention will be given to the issues of economic growth, industrial development, the economy of the antebellum South, transportation and commerce, the rise of cities, and the impact of major wars on the economy. Prerequisite: Economics 101. Prerequisite: C- or better in Economics 101. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
An examination of the varied experiences of poverty in American history and the intersection of poverty and democracy. The course considers both the limits on democracy faced by the poor and their efforts to challenges those limits. 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 Credits
This course provides an introduction to queer theory, a set of theoretical and critical practices that have recently transformed the study of gender and sexuality. Reading rebelliously within the canon, it stages an encounter between some of the most influential queer theorists (Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Eve Sedgwick, and Michael Warner) and a series of canonical texts drawn from nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature. The purpose of this encounter is to bring greater historicity to queer theory while deepening students' understanding of the place of sexuality in the American literary past. Novels include Billy Budd, The Awakening, The Ambassadors, The Professor's House, Passing, The Great Gatsby, The Sun Also Rises, and Nightwood. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
The course examines the notion of miscegenation (interracial relations), including how the term was coined and defined. Using an interdisciplinary approach, we will consider the different and conflicting ways that interracial relations have been represented, historically and contemporaneously, as well as the implications of those varied representations. Examining both primary and secondary texts, including fiction, film, legal cases, historical criticism, and drama, we will explore how instances of interracial contact both threaten and expand formulations of race and "Americanness" in the U.S. and beyond. How is miscegenation emblematic of other issues invoked, such as gender, nation, and sexuality How do enactments of interracial contact complicate the subjects that they "stage 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
A course in the dynamics of oppression and resistance, especially as they appear in language and narrative. We will be looking at various texts-novels, films, poetry, plays-to see both the ways dominant groups and discourses repress difference, and the ways repressed groups and coded or subterranean discourses keep themselves and their languages alive. Readings drawn largely from gay, black, and women's literature; films from Hollywood to Havana, with an early stop at the Trobriands, to meditate on the islanders' peculiar way of playing cricket. This course is also a part of the curriculum for the interdisciplinary minor in Progressive American Social Movements. 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the histories and cultures of working people-women and men of various racial and ethnic groups who perform paid and unpaid forms of labor in diverse economic regions. It begins with theoretical and historical analyses of seriocomic class and labor, both in the United States and in a global context. It traces the rise, peak, and decline of the modern U.S. labor movement in the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as shifts in labor activism into the 21st century. It pays particular attention to struggles for better wages, hours, working conditions, and benefits, as well as struggles to represent all workers equitably. It also examines work and workers in the public imagination and popular culture over time. In so doing, this course explores issues of class, race, gender, and sexuality as categories of analysis for understanding "work" in America. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
Whether figured as a search for identity, a search for freedom, or a search for work, the road novel has been among the most popular genres in American literature. Although the means of conveyance have changed from the schooner and the horse to cars, airplanes, and the Internet, movement in American literature has served as a metaphor for American freedom, and proof of its denial. Divided evenly between the 19th and the 20th centuries, this course will feature authors including Parkman, Douglass, Melville, and Twain to Steinbeck, Kerouac, Morrison, Cormac McCarthy, and Junot Diaz. 1.00 units, Seminar
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3.00 Credits
Focusing primarily on African American, Native American, Latin American, and Asian American women, this course will examine the cultural, economic, and political histories of women of color in the United States. Major themes will include immigration, labor, family, education, social movements, and civil rights. 1.00 units, Seminar
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1.00 Credits
No Course Description Available. 1.00 units, Independent Study
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3.00 Credits
The development of United States maritime and naval enterprise from the Colonial Era to the present. Emphasis on: patterns of commerce and trade; technological innovation afloat and on the waterfront; the transition from sail to steam power; changing conditions of life at sea and of seaport communities; the development of internal waterways; the relation of private enterprise to public policy and government involvement; naval strategy and the experience of American seapower in theory and practice. 1.00 units, Lecture
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