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1.00 Credits
This course is an unabashed and hopeful "history of the present." By situating a history of "America" within the larger world, we will collectively explore a global vision for the future. Throughout modern history, arguments for global advance have been premised on the proliferation, and equal distribution, of freedoms. In this class, through a series of pairings and conversations that cut across the world, we will rethink the very notion of global freedom. Here, property and piracy, free labor and freedom from labor, nation states and colonies, prosperity and underdevelopment, the political and the personal all coexist as the collective building blocks for competing, yet connected visions of global social relations. From Democratic Nationalism to Soviet Internationalism to Bandung Humanism, globalization has expressed itself in various guises. Let's look at them all. This class is an invitation to come and explore something more, to reclaim the possibilities for competing visions of worldwide freedom in the present 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
This course will analyze and examine the intersection of sex and work in the United States. We will explore sexual labors-prostitution, sexual acting and performance, forced and voluntary sexual labor-in the contexts of U.S. history, culture, economy, politics, and society. We will examine efforts to criminalize and decriminalize sex work, subcultures of sex workers, and dynamics of power in sex work through the lenses of socioeconomic class, gender, and sexuality. To do so, we will trace historical and current constructions of sex (as) work through a blend of sources-diaries and letters, film, music, popular literature, and secondary analysis 1.00 units, Seminar
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3.00 Credits
George Orwell called political language "the defense of the indefensible," and yet democracies need a lively public culture of argument and debate in order to come to terms with complex issues, define values, make decisions, and solve problems. This course will explore the contemporary state of our political rhetoric in the United States, with a focus on the dynamic interactions of television, radio, print, and cyberspace. Students will participate in electronic discussions with peers across the country as they debate current issues generated by national election campaigns. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
A detailed study of the development of the modern American theater through an examination of the most famous works of prominent playwrights, directors, designers, and companies, including playwrights Belasco, O'Neill, Glaspell, Rice, Odets, Hart and Kaufman, Williams, Miller, Inge, Albee, Shepard, Norman, and Gray; director/designer teams Hopkins and Jones and Kazan and Mielziner; and companies such as the Provincetown Players, the Theatre Guild, the Group Theater, the Performance Group and the Wooster Group. 1.00 units, Lecture
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0.00 Credits
An investigation of the changing conception of childhood in America as reflected in a variety of textual and graphic materials for and about children. Prerequisite: For English majors, English 260. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing cultural context or a course emphasizing literature after 1800. This course fulfills major requirements for English and American Studies majors; if there is room, others will be admitted. Prerequisite: For English majors, English 260 with a grade of C- or higher. 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
Through readings in fiction, autobiography, essays and some poetry, this course will investigate the conditions and experiences shaping Black female identity in the United States. Although the focus will be on 20th century African American women writers, some selections by earlier writers, and writers from outside the United States, may be included as a way of exploring similarities (and differences) that exist between Black women's writings, experiences, and ways of knowing trans-historically and across the diaspora.Among the recurring issues/themes we will investigate are the impact of race, class, gender, and sexuality on Black women's experiences and artistic vision, the quest for self-determination and self-actualization, the significance of spirituality, and the politics of Black women's roles within the community, family and nation. Writers studied will vary from semester to semester, but may include: Toni Morrison, Audre Lorde, Gayl Jones, Harriet Jacobs, Jamaica Kincaid, Sapphire, Mariama B,, Maya Angelou, Gloria Wade Gayles, June Jordan, Alice Walker, Harriet Wilson, Ann Petry, and bell hooks. Prerequisite: English 213, 217, or other courses in African-American literature. Permission of the instructor is required 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
No Course Description Available. 1.00 units, Lecture
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3.00 Credits
The course examines racial inequality in the post-civil rights era as it is manifested in American culture, society, and policy and analyzes the politics surrounding the major public debates that affect black Americans and the nation today. Topics include: the origins of the urban crisis; welfare reform and the black family; drug legislation, crime, incarceration, and capital punishment; immigration; education; affirmative action; class stratification; and rap and censorship. Divisions within the black community as well as between black and white Americans will be addressed. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
This course offers a survey of American intellectual and cultural history in the 19th century, from the decades following the Revolutionary War to the early years of the 20th century. Among the various "isms" we will unpack are republicanism, evangelicalism, transcendentalism, individualism, populism, pragmatism, and progressivism. Readings will include works by Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Herman Melville, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, William James, Ida Wells, Jane Addams, Jack London, and others. 1.00 units, Lecture
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1.00 Credits
An exploration of the causes of the American Civil War, including a detailed study of slavery, abolitionism, the development of Southern sectional consciousness, conflict over the Western territories, the disintegration of the national party system and the rise of the Republicans, Lincoln's election, and the secession crisis of 1860-61. The political and military history of the wartime period will also be examined, as will the post-war struggle to reconstruct the Union and define the status of four million newly freed black Americans. 1.00 units, Lecture
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