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AMST 4101 is also offered in Fall 2022
AMST 4101 is also offered in Spring 2022
AMST 4101 is also offered in Fall 2021
Fall 2021 | AMST 4101 Section 001: Gender, Sexuality, and Politics in America (21363)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Tue,
Thu 02:30PM - 03:45PM
UMTC, East Bank
Wulling Hall 240
- Enrollment Status:
Open (27 of 30 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Ways public and private life intersect through the issues of gender, sexuality, family, politics, and public life; ways in which racial, ethnic, and class divisions have been manifest in the political ideologies affecting private life.
- Class Description:
- Focus on Gender, Sexuality, and Politics in the ?American Tropics? (Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Kingdom/State/Nation of Hawaii, and the Republic of the Philippines) This course focuses on issues related to racialized genders and sexualities in the cultural and political contexts of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Kingdom/State/Nation of Hawaii, and the Republic of the Philippines ? what scholar Allan Punzalan Isaac calls ?American Tropics? (unincorporated sites (past and present) of the U.S. nation that obscure the contradictions of a democratic country possessing colonies). Key questions that we will explore include: Why did the U.S. choose these archipelagos in the Caribbean, Pacific Basin, and Southeast Asia as sites to build a U.S. empire at the end of the 19th Century? How did the transition from Spanish rule to U.S. rule affect gender, sexuality, and politics in Puerto Rico and the Philippines? How do issues of indigeneity affect gender, sexuality, and politics in Hawaii? How does U.S. colonialism occupy or haunt these sites (and their diasporas) in the 21st? How did or how does U.S. colonialism (and neo-colonialism) impact constructions of gender and sexuality in these island nations/locations? How do Puerto Ricans, Native Hawaiians, and Filipinos (of diverse genders and sexualities) survive, resist, and organize against colonial or neo-colonial power dynamics? The course draws on interdisciplinary scholarship and methodologies (including feminist/women of color/queer of color/postcolonial theories and writing) and uses a comparative approach to engage and understand the complex questions and issues raised above
- Grading:
- Other Grading Information: Will be determined by instructor
- Class Format:
- 35% Lecture
30% Film/Video
35% Discussion
- Workload:
- 100-125 Pages Reading Per Week
18-20 Pages Writing Per Term
1 Exam(s)
1 Paper(s)
Other Workload: 5 two-page reading/film response papers
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/21363/1219
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 22 April 2009
ClassInfo Links - Fall 2021 American Studies Classes