ClassInfo - Spring 2020 American Studies Classes

Spring 2020 | AMST 8920 Section 001: Topics in American Studies -- Indigenous Urbanism (67388)

Instructor(s): Bianet Castellanos is an associate professor in American Studies. Trained as an anthropologist, she examines the social, economic, cultural, and legal barriers that define gender, race, and class in the Americas. She teaches courses on immigration, politics and popular culture, Indigenous urbanism, and Latinx studies. See https://cla.umn.edu/about/directory/profile/mbc" target="lookup">Bianet Castellanos
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 3 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:: 4 Credits
Grading Basis:: Student Option
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:: Topics Course
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020

Tue 03:35PM - 05:25PM

UMTC, East Bank

Civil Engineering Building 213
Enrollment Status:: Open (9 of 15 seats filled)
Also Offered:: (Tentative) Fall 2024
(Tentative) Spring 2024
(Tentative) Fall 2023
(Tentative) Spring 2023
(Tentative) Spring 2022
(Tentative) Fall 2021

Course Catalog Description:: Topics specified in Class Schedule.
Class Notes:: This course heeds historian Coll Thrush's call to reframe the city through Indigenous experience. The course begins with histories that center the metropole as an Indigenous space. We will follow decolonial guides to cityscapes that unearth the multi-layered cultural geographies created by sovereign and autonomous Indigenous people and their diasporas. We will examine Indigenous people's active engagement with urban life and how this engagement has led to a resurgence of Intertribal identities. We will look at policy and planning practices as exclusionary tactics that marginalized Indigenous people and explore Indigenous-led initiatives demanding urban land justice and rights to the city. The course relies on a variety of texts - histories, art, novels, films, poems, maps, ethnographies, and digital stories - and spans the Americas, Australia, and New Zealand. Through case studies, this course engages with decolonial narratives and praxis that acknowledge and reclaim Indigenous histories and rights to the city.
Class Description:: Student may contact the instructor or department for information.
Textbooks:: https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67388/1203

To link directly to this ClassInfo page from your website or to save it as a bookmark, use:: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?subject=AMST&catalog_nbr=8920&term=1203
To see a URL-only list for use in the Faculty Center URL fields, use:: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?subject=AMST&catalog_nbr=8920&term=1203&url=1
To see this page output as XML, use:: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?subject=AMST&catalog_nbr=8920&term=1203&xml=1
To see this page output as JSON, use:: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?subject=AMST&catalog_nbr=8920&term=1203&json=1
To see this page output as CSV, use:: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?subject=AMST&catalog_nbr=8920&term=1203&csv=1

ClassInfo created and maintained by the Humphrey School of Public Affairs.

If you have questions about specific courses, we strongly encourage you to contact the department where the course resides.