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SPIA ELECTIVE?COURSECROSS-LISTED DEPT.DISTRIBUTIONCLASS NAMEPROFESSOR NAMEOFFERED WHEN?COURSE DESCRIPTION
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This a working list of lecture classes we believe should be included as options for the proposed WWS core requirement in "Power and Identity." Please submit your suggestions using this link!
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AAS 380AMS 382CD or HALaw and Public Policy in African American HistoryKeeanga-Yamahtta TaylorF20, F19, F18, F17, S17, F15, F14This course explores how ideas and discourses about race shape how public policy is debated, adopted, and implemented. Black social movements and geopolitical considerations prompted multiple public policy responses to racial discrimination throughout the twentieth century. Despite these policy responses, discrimination persists, raising theoretical concerns about the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion, political representation, the role of the state (meaning government or law) in promoting social justice, and the role of social movements and civil society in democratizing policymaking and addressing group oppression.
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HIS 393AAS393 / WWS389HARace, Drugs, and Drug Policy in AmericaSarah Copenhaver Matherly, Keith Andrew WailooS20, S18, S17, S15From "Chinese opium" to Oxycontin, and from cocaine and "crack" to BiDil, drug controversies reflect enduring debates about the role of medicine, the law, the policing of ethnic identity, and racial difference. This course explores the history of controversial substances (prescription medicines, over-the-counter products, black market substances, psychoactive drugs), and how, from cigarettes to alcohol and opium, they become vehicles for heated debates over immigration, identity, cultural and biological difference, criminal character, the line between legality and illegality, and the boundaries of the normal and the pathological.
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AAS 362WWS 497, POL 338SARace and the American Legal Process: Emancipation to the Voting Rights ActImani PerryF18, F16This course examines the dynamic and often conflicted relationships between African American struggles for inclusion, and the legislative, administrative, and judicial decision-making responding to or rejecting those struggles, from Reconstruction to the passage of the Voting Rights Act. In tracing these relationships we will cover issues such as property, criminal law, suffrage, education, and immigration, with a focus on the following theoretical frameworks: equal protection, due process, civic participation and engagement, and political recognition.
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AAS 367HIS 387CD or HAAfrican American History Since EmancipationJoshua B. GuildF20, F19, F18, F17, F16, F15, F14
This lecture offers an introduction to the major themes, critical questions, and pivotal moments in post-emancipation African American history. It traces the social, political, cultural, intellectual, and legal contours of the black experience in the United States from Reconstruction to the rise of Jim Crow, through the World Wars, Depression, and the Great Migrations, to the long civil rights era and the contemporary period of racial politics. Using a wide variety of texts, images, and creative works, this course situates African American history within broader national and international contexts. [This course fulfills the core survey requirement for concentrators and certificate students.]
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AAS 201CD or ECAfrican American Studies and the Philosophy of RaceEddie Steven Glaude Jr., Imani PerryF20, F19, F18, S17, F15, F14This course introduces students to the field of African American Studies through an examination of the complex experiences, both past and present, of Americans of African descent. Through a multidisciplinary perspective, it reveals the complicated ways we come to know and live race in the United States. Students engage classic texts in the field, all of which are framed by a concern with epistemologies of resistance and of ignorance that offer insight into African American thought and practice.
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HIS306LAO306 / LAS326HABecoming Latino in the U.S.Rosina LozanoS20, S19, S17, S15History 306 studies all Latinos in the US, from those who have (im)migrated from across Latin America to those who lived in what became US lands. The course covers the historical origins of debates over land ownership, the border, assimilation expectations, discrimination, immigration regulation, intergroup differences, civil rights activism, and labor disputes. History 306 looks transnationally at Latin America's history by exploring shifts in US public opinion and domestic policies. By the end of the course, students will have a greater understanding and appreciation of how Latinos became an identifiable group in the US.
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AAS321REL321HABlack Rage and Black PowerEddie Glaude Jr. S20This course examines the various pieties of the Black Power Era. We chart the explicit and implicit utopian visions of the politics of the period that, at once, criticized established Black religious institutions and articulated alternative ways of imagining salvation. We also explore the attempt by Black theologians to translate the prophetic Black church tradition into the idiom of Black power. We aim to keep in view the significance of the Black Power era for understanding the changing role and place of Black religion in Black public life.
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POL342GSS414SASexuality, Gender, and Gender Identity in American Law and PoliticsJoanna WuestS20This course explores questions of sexuality, gender, and gender identity in U.S. politics and the law from the late-nineteenth to the twenty-first century. Some of the topics that we will cover include: anti-discrimination policies, same-sex marriage, free speech and religious rights, sex/gender ID markers, sex offender registries, the administrative regulation of sex, and the relationships among race, gender, and sexuality. In examining how sexuality and gender are categorized and contested in the law, we will pay close attention to the changing political historical context in which these developments occur.
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HIS 380HAU.S. Foreign RelationsJoseph FronczakF19, F17, F16, S16This course covers the history of US foreign relations from the American revolution to the present day. Lectures take up questions of diplomacy, foreign policy, ideology and culture, empire and anti-imperialism, and revolution and counterrevolution. Precepts emphasize primary sources, from the writings of Tom Paine, George Washington, William Jennings Bryan, Ho Chi Minh, Phyllis Schlafly, Elaine Scarry, and more.
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HIS 350HAHistory of International OrderNatasha WheatleyS18This course charts the history of international order from the 1815 Congress of Vienna to today's world system. It is a saga of grand schemes for world parliaments and universal peace, as well as imperial domination and dismal violence. Can the globe be governed? Can great power politics be squared with global ethics? And how do the rights of states relate to the rights of individuals? We will investigate shifting answers to these questions in conversation with figures like Kant, Marx, Wilson, Ho Chi Minh, Arendt. As we track the struggle between power and morality from Metternich to the IMF, we uncover the origins of the world we know today.
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AAS303 HUM306 / GSS406HATopics in Global Race and Ethnicity: Scientific Racism: Then and NowDannelle Gutarra CorderoF20, S20, F19, S19This course explores the intellectual history of scientific racism, paying close attention to how its theories influence power and institutions today. Reading primary sources from the history of science, each class will trace the reverberations of scientific racism in media, education, politics, law, and global health. Our conversations will consistently analyze the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and age in the legacies of scientific racism. We will also examine the impact of scientific racism in public discourse about the Black Lives Matter Movement and collectively brainstorm for activism towards restorative justice.
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GHP 350WWS380 / ANT380SACritical Perspectives in Global HealthJoão Biehl, Arbel Griner, Heidi Anna Morefield, Sebastian Ramirez HernandezF20, F19, F18, F17, F16, F15, F14Global health brings together a vast array of actors addressing urgent health issues and inequality worldwide with unprecedented financial and technological resources. The course is a critical analysis of the social, political, and economic processes underlying this expanding medical and humanitarian field. As we scrutinize the design, evidence-making practices and values informing global health, we will place interventions in historical perspective, gauge their impact, and explore new paradigms and frontiers of action. Students are encouraged to find new and collaborative ways to understand and act in and through the field of global health.
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HIS303LAS305HAColonial Latin America to 1810Vera CandianiF20, F19, F18, F17, F16, F15, F14What is colonization? How does it work? What kind of societies does it create? Come find out through the lens of the Latin America. First we study how the Aztec and Inca empires subdued other peoples, and how Muslim Iberia fell to the Christians. Then, we learn about Spanish and Portuguese conquests and how indigenous resistance, adaptation, and racial mixing shaped the continent. You will see gods clash and meld, cities rise and decline, and insurrections fail or win. Silver mines will boom and bust, slaves will toil and rebel; peasants will fight capitalist encroachments. This is a comprehensive view of how Latin America became what it is.
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HIS317SAS317HAThe Making of Modern India and PakistanGyan PrakashS20, S16An exploration of three major themes in the history of India's and Pakistan's emergence as nation-states: colonial socio-economic and cultural transformations, the growth of modern collective identities and conflicts, and nationalism. Topics covered include: trade, empire, and capitalism; class, gender and religion; Gandhi, national independence, and partition; and post-colonial state and society.
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HIS267NES267HAThe Modern Middle EastMax WeissF19, S18, S17, S15An introduction to the history of the Middle East from the late eighteenth century through the turn of the twenty-first, with an emphasis on the Arab East, Iran, Israel, and Turkey.
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AAS313HIS213 / LAS377HAModern Caribbean HistoryReena GoldthreeS19, S18This course will explore the major issues that have shaped the Caribbean since 1791, including: colonialism and revolution, slavery and abolition, migration and diaspora, economic inequality, and racial hierarchy. We will examine the Caribbean through a comparative approach--thinking across national and linguistic boundaries--with a focus on Cuba, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic. While our readings and discussions will foreground the islands of the Greater Antilles, we will also consider relevant examples from the circum-Caribbean and the Caribbean diaspora as points of comparison.
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HIS270AMS370 / ASA370HAAsian American HistoryBeth Lew-WilliamsF19, F17, F16, S15This course introduces students to the multiple and varied experiences of people of Asian heritage in the United States from the 19th century to the present day. It focuses on three major questions: (1) What brought Asians to the United States? (2) How did Asian Americans come to be viewed as a race? (3) How does Asian American experience transform our understanding of U.S. history? Using newspapers, novels, government reports, and films, this course will cover major topics in Asian American history, including Chinese Exclusion, Japanese internment, transnational adoption, and the model minority stereotype.
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HIS342EAS342 / NES343HASoutheast Asia's Global HistoryMichael LaffanS20, S17, S16, S15This course aims to provide an introduction to Southeast Asia and its prominent place in global history through a series of encounters in time; from Marco Polo in Sumatra to the latest events in such buzzing cities as Bangkok, Jakarta and Hanoi. For the early modern period we will read various primary sources, before turning to consider a series of diverse colonial impacts across the region (European, American and Asian), and then the mechanisms underpinning the formation of some of the most vibrant, and sometimes turbulent, countries on the world stage.
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HIS324EAS354HAEarly Modern ChinaHe BianF19, F16, F15This course surveys the history of China between 1400 and 1800, tracing the foundation and decline of the Ming dynasty, the consolidation of Manchu rule till the end of the High Qing era. The main aims are 1) to understand the tremendous changes in Chinese society during this period 2) to see the continued relevance of China's recent imperial past in its contemporary existence. Topics discussed include governance, morality, family life, religion, and ethnicity.
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HIS315AFS316HAColonial and Postcolonial AfricaJacob DlaminiS20, S19, S17, S16This course is an examination of the major political and economic trends in twentieth-century African history. It offers an interpretation of modern African history and the sources of its present predicament. In particular, we study the foundations of the colonial state, the legacy of the late colonial state (the period before independence), the rise and problems of resistance and nationalism, the immediate challenges of the independent states (such as bureaucracy and democracy), the more recent crises (such as debt and civil wars) on the continent, and the latest attempts to address these challenges from within the continent.
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HIS208EAS208HAEast Asia since 1800He Bian, Zheng Guan, Federico MarconS20, S19, S18, S16, S15This course is an introduction to the history of modern East Asia. We will examine the inter-related histories of China, Japan, and Korea since 1800 and their relationships with the wider world. Major topics include: trade and cultural exchanges, reform and revolutions, war, colonialism, imperialism, and Cold War geopolitics.
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AFS310SADevelopment Aid in Sub-Saharan Africa: Rogues, Benefactors and RecipientsChristiana AgawuS20, S19, S18Sub-Saharan Africa's record on the use of development aid has been at best mixed. It has received about $1 trillion in foreign assistance since 1960. In the early 1980s, three world regions, Sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia and Pacific, and South Asia had over 50% of their populations living in extreme poverty. Thirty odd years later, Sub-Saharan Africa's figures have barely shifted; they went down from 53% to only 47% in 2011. East Asia and Pacific, and South Asia regions also received substantial assistance and have significantly reduced extreme poverty among their populations. Critics of foreign assistance decry such assistance.
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LAS318POL373HAFrom Zapata to the Cold War: Latin America's 20th Century RevolutionsBridgette WernerS20In this lecture course we will analyze key 20th century Latin American revolutions within their regional and global context, focusing on the ideologies that motivated insurgents and the legacies left in the wake of national transformation. We will read broadly across the literature on Latin American revolutions, analyzing historical arguments, comparing and contrasting existing narratives, and building our own arguments about revolutionary processes. Crucially, we will consider how revolutionary dreams met with violent counterrevolution in the crucible of cold war.
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HIS 322EAS 324HA20th-Century JapanSheldon M. GaronF20, F19, F18, F16, F15, F14The course provides a general introduction to Japanese history from 1890 to the present, with emphasis on Japan's rise as the modern world's first non-Western power, imperialism, industrialization, social change, gender relations, democracy, World War II, the U. S. Occupation, state management of society, the postwar "economic miracle" and recent stagnation, and the preoccupation with national identity in a Western-dominated world. In the final weeks, we will think about post-1945 developments in terms of continuities with (and divergences from) the prewar and wartime history of Japan.
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HIS 325EAS 355HAChina, 1850 to the PresentJanet Y. ChenF20, F18, S17, F14This course is an introduction to the history of modern China, from imperial dynasty to Republic, from the Red Guards to red capitalists. Through primary sources in translation, we will explore political and social revolutions, transformations in intellectual life and culture, as well as competing explanations for events such as the rise of the Communist Party and the Cultural Revolution. Major themes include: the impact of imperialism and war, tensions between governance and dissent, the emergence of nationalism, and the significance of China's history for its present and future.
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