Results for CSRE

This course is a Freshman Introductory Seminar that has as its purpose introducing students to the sociolinguistic study of bilingualism by focusing on bilingual communities in this country and on bilingual individuals who use two languages in their everyday lives. Much attention is given to the history, significance, and consequences of language contact in the United States. The course focuses on the experiences of long-term US minority populations as well as that of recent immigrants.

This course consists of film screenings, dialogues, and performances that examine and engage Hip Hop Cultures and artists from around the world. We will explore diverse scenes and artists, from the formation of new musical genres such as hiplife in Ghana, to the impact of the first Hip Hop concert in Morocco, to comparative investigations of race and citizenship in Japan, Cuba, Palestine, France, and the United States (including Black, Mexican and Arab-Americans).

Theory and research on African Americans' roles in post-Civil Rights, US social movements. Topics include women¿s right, LGBT rights, environmental movement, and contemporary political conservativism.

This seminar examines how our cultural ideas and practices shape our conceptions,nnperceptions, experiences, and treatment of emotional wellness and distress. We will read and discuss empirical research and case studies from psychology, anthropology, sociology, and medicine. Course requirements include weekly reading and thought papers, weekly discussion, and a final research project and presentation.

Focus is on classrooms with students from diverse racial, ethnic and linguistic backgrounds. Studies, writing, and media representation of urban and diverse school settings; implications for transforming teaching and learning. Issues related to developing teachers with attitudes, dispositions, and skills necessary to teach diverse students.

During the twentieth century, peasants and menial laborers who comprised the majority of humanity launched liberation movements to secure citizenship rights. Mohandas K. Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nelson Mandela are among the leaders whose ideas continue to influence contemporary movements for global peace with social justice in a sustainable environment.

Explore problems of race and ethnicity as viable criteria in studying ancient societies and consider the question, What is the Mediterranean?, in relation to premodern evidence. Investigate the role of blackness as a marker of ethnicity; the demography of slavery and its roles in forming social identities; and environmental determinism as a factor in ethnic and racial thinking. Consider Greek and Roman perspectives and behavior, and their impact on later theories of race and ethnicity as well as the Mediterranean as a whole.

Cases, legislation, comparative justice models, and historical and cultural material. The interlocking relationships of tribal, federal, and state governments. Emphasis is on economic development, religious freedom, and environmental justice issues in Indian country.

Interrogate marginalized and dominant conceptions of land, nature, wilderness, and environment in U.S. American society, through the lens of race and ethnicity. Explore historical/current events and social policies shaping and revealing the way varied U.S. racial and ethnic groups conceive of the environment and their relationship to it. Understand how marginalizing some of these perspectives and peoples contributes to disparities in access to healthy environments and why this matters. Theorize about how best to achieve environmental justice and sustainability considering these diverse perspectives and experiences. Interdisciplinary. Weekly lecture series, with weekly discussion sections that incorporate experiential learning. Lecturers include experts in race and environmental studies from Stanford and across the country.nnnStudents can sign up for the weekly public lecture series (1 hr 15 min lectures, 1 unit, Credit/No Credit) or for the public lecture series and accompanying weekly seminar course (1 hr 30 min seminars in addition to the lectures, 3 units, Letter Grade).There will be no cap on enrollment in the public lecture series. Enrollment in the seminar course will be limited to 35 students, who will be divided into two sections of 17 or 18 students each. Priority will be given to juniors and seniors. All students interested in taking the seminar should enroll for 3 units and submit a one paragraph statement to Dr. Courtney Bonam (cbonam@stanford.edu) explaining why they would like to take this course. Statements are due by midnight on Friday January 7th, but students are encouraged to submit their statements as soon as possible. Students will be notified of their acceptance into the course the second week of classes. Please contact Dr. Bonam with questions.nnnPLEASE NOTE: Wed-Lecture is actually 12-1:15 p.m.

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.

Demographic, political, and economic history of California Indians, 1700s-1950s. Processes and events leading to the destruction of California tribes, and their effects on the groups who survived. Geographic and cultural diversity. Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo-American periods. The mission system.

The period of time-1880 to 1920-is a time when many important events in American Indian history occurred. Hoxie's historical work provides a framework for analyzing what effects these policies had on American Indian people. His work does not provide an American Indian perspective; he stated at the onset, that this was not an objective in this study. His main objective was to present a study that shows Indians' relations with whites as a "clash of two complex cultures" from a white point of view (Hoxie xxi). Three American Indians writing during this time period provide the needed Indian perspective lacking in Hoxie's work.

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.

On January 19, 2009, over one million people gathered in the Washington Mall to watch the inauguration of President Barack Obaama. The press called it "this generation's Woodstock," but in fact, it was three times larger than the crowd at Woodstock: the largest crowd gathered on US soil since 1964's March on Washington. Using political movements  including marches around immigration, rallies for and against Obama, and others, this class will look at crowds in America and the mobilization of race as a political tactic in order to question why the centrality of race is so often absent in crowds.

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.

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

Focus is on theories of justice. How the core ideals of freedom, equality, and security animate theories which John Rawls considers the first virtue of social institutions. Topics include the U.S. Constitution as a legal framework for the operation of these ideals, civil rights legislation and litigation as the arena of tensions between those ideals, and how ideas of justice function both at home and abroad to impact civil liberties in today's war on terror.

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. Service Learning Course (certified by Haas Center).

How race informs the theories and research within political sociology. The state's role in creation and maintenance of racial categories, the ways in which racial identity motivates political actors, how race is used to legitimate policy decisions, comparisons across racial groups. Emphasis on understanding the ways race operates in the political arena.

Preference to freshmen. This course will introduce works by U.S. Latino and Latina performance artists producing from the margins of the mainstream Euro-American theater world. We will examine how performance art serves as a kind of dramatized political forum for Latino/a artists, producing some of the most transgressive explorations of queer and national/ethnic identities in the U.S. today. By the course¿s conclusion, each student will create and perform in a staged reading of an original performance piece.

The transformation from the New Woman of the 1890s to the New Woman of the 1990s; attention to immigrant, black, and white women, both historical analyses and personal accounts. Topics include: workforce participation; family and reproductive labor; educational and professional opportunities; the impact of wars, economic depression, and popular culture; and recurrent feminist movements.

The role of race and ethnicity in immigrant group integration in the U.S. Topics include: theories of integration; racial and ethnic identity formation; racial and ethnic change; immigration policy; intermarriage; hybrid racial and ethnic identities; comparisons between contemporary and historical waves of immigration.

This course surveys representations of Chicana/os and Latina/os, in independent and Hollywood film and video across a variety of genres. We will consider how film and video are social and artistic phenomenon where cultural and political debates about identity and community are narrated and imagined. Films will be historically situated in relation to the Chicano civil rights movement, the emergence of Chicano in film and television, international film movements, the struggle for access into the means for self-representation.

Focus is on the contributions of immigrants and communities of color to the meaning of citizenship in the U.S. Citizenship, more than only a legal status, is a dynamic cultural field in which people claim equal rights while demanding respect for differences. Academic studies of citizenship examined in dialogue with the theory and practice of activists and movements. Engagement with immigrant organizing and community-based research is a central emphasis.

This course will examine the transnational intersections of race and performance. It will consider the question of s race understood internationally and how do such definitions travel. We examine critical race theory and study constructions of race through the lens of performance. The course will interrogate the transnational meanings of such performances. Students in this course will read, study, analyze and potentially even stage theoretical and performance texts from both inside and outside of the United States. Course also satisfies Drama 302/303 requirement.

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.

Course introduces students to the basic 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, Patrick Shanley, August Wilson, Suzan-Lori Parks, Paula Vogel, Octavio Solis and others. Table readings of one-act length work required by quarter¿s end.

Focus is on documentary cinema as a technology for understanding Asian Americans in the U.S. The social and historical context of the formation of the Asian American filmmaker, an authorial position that emerges in the 60s and 70s as part of the civil rights movement. Works include films by Loni Ding, Bob Nakamura and Curtis Choy; readings about the establishment of Asian American media industries and Asian American film criticism as a multi-genre. Social issue documentaries that represent new ethnographies of social experience including transnational adoption (Daughter From Danang), refugee experience (AKA Don Bonus), and sex tourism (The Women Outside). Readings include analyses of the implications of these works for cinema studies, ethnic studies, and the politics of film in everyday life. Experimental documentaries and their interrogation of the limits of the documentary form in representing identities and social problems. How does representation matter within and for Asian America in framing the complexities of race and racial identity? Screenings include works by Marlon Fuentes, Rea Tajiri and Trinh T. Minh-ha.

This course emphasizes the study and practice of personal memoir writing and literary journalism. The class will explore those writings that contain a public and private story, navigating an intimate and institutional world. Student writers will serve as public chroniclers whose subjective point of view and experience attempt to provide a truth greater than what ¿the facts¿ can offer.

This "gateway" core course to the IDA emphasis in CSRE offers a 21st century examination of people of color aesthetics and related politics, drawing from contemporary works (literature, music, visual and performing arts) in conversation with their native (especially American Indigenous and African) origins. Issues of gender and sexuality in relation to cultural identity are also integral to this study. Students will be required to produce a final work, integrating critical writing with a creative project.

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.

Recent historical interpretations of sexual violence, with particular attention to the intersections of gender and race in the construction of rape, from early settlement through the twentieth century. Topics include the legal prosecution of rape in Early America; the racialization of rape in the U.S.; lynching and anti-lynching in the U.S.; and feminist responses to sexual violence.

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.

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.

Critical theory and cultural representations in a variety of media that address issues surrounding the representation of race, gender, sexuality and politics. How is desire racialized? How is racial difference produced through sex as a material practice and what is the function of sex in racial (self)formation? How do we reconcile questions of pleasure and desire and the structures of power? How do these texts reinforce or contest stereotypes and the "ideal" bodies of national identity? Is it desirable to envision a bridging of queer communities of color, or a transnational, transfronterizo or global network?

Examination of a diverse set of literary texts by Latinas/os, bringing history, politics, and cultural theory to bear in order to apprehend the significant intracultural differences amongst Latinas/os (most notably concerning im/migration). Gender and sexuality as critical lenses that reflect and refract themes such as identity, language politics, transnationalism, political turmoil, socioeconomic status, and the notion of home/land and its loss, reinvention, and/or reclamation

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.

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.

Interrogation of the critical discourses that have configured and reconfigured the canon of Chicana/o literature over the last thirty years. Close textual readings of primary texts, mainly narrative, within the development of Chicana/o literary and cultural criticism. Construction of narrative genealogies and foundational texts. Impact of the publication of late-nineteenth or pre-movement novels and Chicana feminist/lesbian/queer critiques. Consideration of alternative paradigms such as positioning Chicana/o literature within a U.S. Latina/o literary imaginary, and the shift of critical discourse in the field of visual art from a paradigm of resistance and affirmation to one of "post" Chicano.

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.

Seminar. The relationship among race, power, inequality, and education from the 1880s to the 1990s. How schools have constructed race, the politics of school desegregation, and ties between education and the late 20th-century urban crisis.

Topics include the historical conceptualization of race; whether and how racial animus reveals itself and the forms it might take; its role in the creation and maintenance of economic stratification; its effect on contemporary U.S. partisan and electoral politics; and policy making consequences.

In an era of globalization characterized by widespread migration and cultural contacts, professionals face a unique challenge: How does one practice successfully when working with clients/students from so many different backgrounds? This course focuses upon the need to examine, conceptualize, and work with individuals according to the multiple ways in which they identify themselves. It will systematically examine multicultural counseling concepts, issues, and research. Literature on counselor and client characteristics such as social status or race/ethnicity and their effects on the counseling process and outcome will be reviewed. Issues in consultation with culturally and linguistically diverse parents and students and work with migrant children and their families are but a few of the topics covered in this course.

African American, Native American, Mexican American, and Asian American racial and ethnic identity development; the influence of social, political and psychological forces in shaping the experience of people of color in the U.S. The importance of race in relationship to social identity variables including gender, class, and occupational, generational, and regional identifications. Bi- and multiracial identity status, and types of white racial consciousness.

This course emphasizes the study and practice of personal memoir writing and literary journalism. The class will explore those writings that contain a public and private story, navigating an intimate and institutional world. Student writers will serve as public chroniclers whose subjective point of view and experience attempt to provide a truth greater than what ¿the facts¿ can offer.

This "gateway" core course to the IDA emphasis in CSRE offers a 21st century examination of people of color aesthetics and related politics, drawing from contemporary works (literature, music, visual and performing arts) in conversation with their native (especially American Indigenous and African) origins. Issues of gender and sexuality in relation to cultural identity are also integral to this study. Students will be required to produce a final work, integrating critical writing with a creative project.

This course will survey current American popular culture, e.g. movies, television shows, commercials, and music, in order to highlight representations that create and maintain our notions of race and gender. The course will be taught from the point of view of social psychology and will focus on empirical research but material from other fields including sociology, anthropology, drama/performance and communications will also be included.

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.

The class addresses the modes of visual expression used among the Bakongo people in Central Africa and their descendents in Cuba, Haiti, and Brazil and argues that together these constitute identifiable graphic writing systems. After providing a brief overview of the forms of graphic expression in use within Kongo and Kongo Atlantic cultures, the class focuses on the most central of the traditional cosmograms, Dikenga. By mapping the meanings and forms of Dikenga, the essay attempts to demonstrate its continuity throughout the Kongo diaspora. Finally, the class highlights the rich cosmology, cosmogony, and moral philosophy that have consistently informed the use and meaning of Dikenga in its central role in religious narratives, moral philosophy and religious education among the Bakongo in Atlantic world.

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.