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
 
09/07/2021 - 12/15/2021
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

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=4101&term=1219
To see a URL-only list for use in the Faculty Center URL fields, use:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?subject=AMST&catalog_nbr=4101&term=1219&url=1
To see this page output as XML, use:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?subject=AMST&catalog_nbr=4101&term=1219&xml=1
To see this page output as JSON, use:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?subject=AMST&catalog_nbr=4101&term=1219&json=1
To see this page output as CSV, use:
http://classinfo.umn.edu/?subject=AMST&catalog_nbr=4101&term=1219&csv=1
Schedule Viewer
8 am
9 am
10 am
11 am
12 pm
1 pm
2 pm
3 pm
4 pm
5 pm
6 pm
7 pm
8 pm
9 pm
10 pm
s
m
t
w
t
f
s
?
Class Title

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.