Spring 2017  |  HIST 3875W Section 001: Comparative Race and Ethnicity in US History (69692)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
A-F or Audit
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
Meets With:
AAS 3875W Section 001
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017
Tue, Thu 09:45AM - 11:00AM
UMTC, West Bank
Hubert H Humphrey Center 15
Course Catalog Description:
This writing-intensive course examines the racial history of modern America to learn from and engage with what historians enmeshed in ethnic studies do. These historians examine the systematic and coordinated exercises of power called race in the American past and make legible how racially aggrieved groups responded to this shaping power. Thus, throughout, we ask, "What did racial subjects do with what was done to them by the American system forged out of settler colonialism, slavery, racism, and other forms of injustice, exclusion, and violence?" This question issues an intellectual challenge to do all that needs to be done to capture community life, the politics of difference, and the dynamism of social identities in all their richness, fullness, and complexity. In other words, we study and write about the racial history of modern America, including its ugly past and arc of justice, to consider what it would take to transcend this racial past.
Class Description:
This writing-intensive course will examine the racial history of modern America. The following question will serve as a guide throughout the semester: ?How did American Indians, African Americans, and immigrants from Europe, Asia, and Latin America struggle over identity, place, and meanings of these categories in society where racial hierarchy not only determined every aspect of how they lived, but also functioned as a lever to reconstitute a new nation and empire in the aftermath of the Civil War?? We are interested in examining how these diverse groups experienced racialization not in the same way but unevenly especially in relation to each other. It is my hope that by the end of this semester, you will acquire a necessary race-conscious perspective to generate alternative historical interpretations, questions, and imaginations and find ways to reckon with America's racist past. Lastly, one of the central objectives of this course is to make an inroad into original historical research and writing. Specifically, we will collectively unearth the little known racial history of Minnesota in the 1940s and 1950s at the intersection of Japanese American history, African American history, and American immigration history. This local history has potential to bring together not only the Japanese American resettlement experience during the wartime period, but also the formation of civil rights politics that was acquiring critical purchase around Minneapolis Mayor Hubert Humphrey and his allies at the grassroots. One of the requirements of this course is that you will spend at least 20 hours at Minnesota Historical Society (MHS) in Saint Paul to carry out archival research.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/69692/1173
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
20 June 2013

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