Results for CSRE

The history of competing tribal and Western economic models, and the legal, political, social, and cultural implications for tribal economic development. Case studies include mineral resource extraction, gaming, and cultural tourism. 21st-century strategies for sustainable economic development and protection of political and cultural sovereignty.

Focus is on issues of language, identity, and globalization, with a focus on Hip Hop cultures and the verbal virtuosity within the Hip Hop nation. Beginning with the U.S., a broad, comparative perspective in exploring youth identities and the politics of language in what is now a global Hip Hop movement. Readings draw from the interdisciplinary literature on Hip Hop cultures with a focus on sociolinguistics and youth culture.

The western myth of the lone white cowboy gives little insight into women and people of color. Race and gender are crucial to the U.S. West's history, creating complex identities and social structures. Course examines lives of women of diverse races, along with mythology surrounding such figures as Sacagawea. Using novels, memoir, artwork, and film, students analyze intersecting race and gender identities, and the relation between history and myth.

Race, ethnicity, gender, and religion using the tools, analytical skills and concepts developed by anthropologists.

Race, ethnicity, gender, and religion using the tools, analytical skills and concepts developed by anthropologists.

Mid 20th-century to the present. How historical, economic, and political conditions in Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica, Antigua, and Guadeloupe affected women. How Francophone, Anglophone, and Hispanophone women novelists, poets, and short story writers respond to similar issues and pose related questions. Caribbean literary identity within a multicultural and diasporic context; the place of the oral in the written feminine text; family and sexuality; translation of European master texts; history, memory, and myth; and responses to slave history, colonialism, neocolonialism, and globalization.

Methods and principles for academic research in community settings for students preparing to enter summer experiences with community organizations. Case studies and tools to help students conceptualize a research strateg. Students develop a memorandum of understanding in collaboration with the community agency to define the work, relationship, and mutual benefit of the research partnership.

An examination of the history of Asians in America via one case history: the International Hotel in San Francisco. Background history of Asians in America, and the specifics of the I Hotel case as involving the convergence of global and local economies, urban redevelopment, and housing issues for minorities. Focus on the convergence of community and cultural production. Service learning component involving community work at the Manilatown Heritage Foundation in San Francisco.

Preference to freshmen. Docudrama as a form of dramatic writing which provides a social critique of current or historical events through creative documentation and dramatization. Sources include Chicana/o and Latina/o texts, Brecht, Teatro Campesino, and Culture Clash. Students produce a short docudrama.

Ethnography, biomedical research, historical writing, and film to focus on the health and well being of newly arrived Asian and Pacific Islander immigrants to the U.S. Historical study of Asian immigrants as feared sources of disease and contagion, immigration status, language, health beliefs, gender, age, and definitions of community, disease prevention, and health programs and practices, and public policy. Topics include: refugeeism, cosmetic surgery, genetic screening, and health disparities.

Lived experience of people who dwell in the border world of race and nation where they negotiate transcultural and multiethnic identities and politics. Comparative, historical, and global contexts such as family and class. Controversies, such as representations of mixed race people in media and multicultural communities. What the lives of people like Tiger Woods and Barack Obama reveal about how the marginal is becoming mainstream.

The elements of playwriting and creative experimentation for the stage. Topics include: character development, conflict and plot construction, staging and setting, and play structure. Script analysis of works by contemporary playwrights may include: Marsha Norman, Shanley, August Wilson, Paula Vogel, and Octavio Solis. Table readings of one-act length work.

Historical and contemporary experiences that have defined the status of Mexican-origin people living in the U.S. Topics include the U.S./Mexico border and the borderlands; immigration and anti-immigration sentiment; literary and cultural traditions; music; labor; historical perspectives on Mexicans in the U.S. and the Chicano movement; urban realities; gender relations; political and economic changes; and inter- and intra-group interactions. Sources include social science and humanities scholarship.

How novelists, filmmakers, and poets perceive racial, ethnic, gender, sexual preference, and class borders in the context of a national discussion about the place of Americans in the world. How Anna Deavere Smith, Sherman Alexie, or Michael Moore consider redrawing such lines so that center and margin, or self and other, do not remain fixed and divided. How linguistic borderlines within multilingual literature by Caribbean, Arab, and Asian Americans function. Can Anzaldúa's conception of borderlands be constructed through the matrix of language, dreams, music, and cultural memories in these American narratives? Course includes examining one's own identity.

Language as it is implicated in migration and globalization. The effects of globalization processes on languages, the complexity of language use in migrant and indigenous minority contexts, the connectedness of today's societies brought about by the development of communication technologies. Individual and societal multilingualism; preservation and revival of endangered languages.

How different disciplines approach topics and issues central to the study of ethnic and race relations in the U.S. and elsewhere. Lectures by senior faculty affiliated with CSRE. Discussions led by CSRE teaching fellows.

Indigenous technologies, philosophies, and aesthetics as expressed through performance, visual art, and the ceremonial practices of Chicana, indigenous, and African women artists and spirit practitioners in America.

Restricted to CSRE comparative studies majors with a concentration in public service. Students consult with the CSRE undergraduate program director and CSRE affiliated faculty to develop an internship. Group meetings. May be repeated for credit. Service Learning Course (certified by Haas Center).

For students interested in writing a senior honors thesis. Conceptualizing and defining a manageable honors project, conducting interdisciplinary research, the parameters of a literature review essay, and how to identify a faculty adviser.

Required for CSRE-related students, including those who opt to write honors theses in other departments and programs. Research and the writing of the senior honors thesis or senior paper under the supervision of a faculty project adviser. The process of research including conceptualization, development of prospectus, development of theses, research, analysis, and writing.

(Thompson, Snipp)

How creative projects build and strengthen communities of common concern. Projects focus on cultural reclamation, multiculturalism, cultural equity and contemporary cultural wars, media literacy, independent film, and community-based art. Guest artists and organizers, films, and case studies.

For students with leadership potential who have studied these topics in lecture format. Race discrimination strategies, their relation to education reform initiatives, and the role of media in shaping racial attitudes in the U.S.

Examination of films from Spain, Mexico, and Latina/o USA that expand, trouble, contest, parody, or otherwise interrogate notions of national identity. Filmmakers may include Lourdes Portillo, Alejandro González Iñárritu, John Sayles, Maria Novaro, Pedro Almodóvar, and Gregory Nava.

Hollywood and the film industry have had a major influence on American society for nearly a century. Initially designed to provide entertainment, the cinema broadened its impact by creating images perceived as real and essentialist. Hollywood's Indians have been the main source of information about who American Indians are and Hollywood has helped shape inaccurate and stereotypical perceptions that continue to exist today. This course looks chronologically at cinematic interpretations and critically examines accurate portrayals of American Indians and of American history.

Representations of youth and schools in the media, focusing on independent, documentary, and mainstream films. Sociohistorical survey and thematic analysis of schooling in urban contexts. The multiple, often competing, discourses about young people, their schools, and their experiences in and outside of them. Interdisciplinary perspectives and readings from education, ethnic studies, media studies, and related fields.

Representations of interracial encounters in American novels, films, and plays. How these works reflect, question, and reimagine relationships not only amongst minorities, but also between race and nation, individual and community, and art and politics. Topics: cultural appropriations; alternative histories of contact; cross-racial performances and social conflicts. Texts by Sherman Alexie, Luis Valdez, Anna Deveare Smith and Karen Tei Yamashita, and the films Do the Right Thing and Crash.

Race, ethnicity, gender, and religion using the tools, analytical skills and concepts developed by anthropologists.