printer friendly pageCSRE 19: Music & Race in the United States
This course explores how the politics of race are made audible in twentieth and twenty-first century American popular music. By engaging with primary source materials and reflecting on weekly texts, films, and listening assignments, students will develop critical listening and thinking skills and use those skills to understand the contested nature of American musical identity through familiar and unfamiliar histories of musical belonging and cultural solidarity, alongside sounds and stories of racial intolerance, discrimination, and exoticism in the music industry. Upending simplistic narratives of racial essentialism that persist in discourses about music, the course will challenge students to reconsider their assumptions about how ideas of race and ethnicity are sounded and heard in the performance of American popular music.
Terms: Sum
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Gilbert, M. (PI)
CSRE 19N: The Immigrant Experience in Everyday Life (CHILATST 19N, SOC 19N)
The seminar introduces students to major themes connected to the immigrant experience, including identity, education, assimilation, transnationalism, political membership, and intergroup relations. There will also be some attention given to research methodology. The seminar addresses these themes through reading ethnographies that document the everyday experience of immigrants and immigrant communities, broadly defined, in the United States. The course readings primarily come from more contemporary ethnographic research, but it will also include a sampling of ethnographies that examine the experience of previous waves of immigrants. Student participation will include in-class discussions of readings, short written responses to readings, and a final paper in which students draw on original ethnographic research that they conduct during the quarter. By the end of the quarter, students will be able to identify the social, political, and economic forces that shape the immigrant experience. More importantly, students will understand HOW these forces enter the immigrant experience in everyday life.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Jimenez, T. (PI)
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