FALL 2001
This information effective for Fall 2001.
Check with instructor the first day of class for any changes.
Fall 2001
MWF 9:30-10:40, Merrill 102
Instructor: David Brundage, brundage@cats.ucsc.edu
Office: College Eight 312; 459-4645
Office hours: TBA
The course will introduce students to the history of the civil rights movement, perhaps the most significant grassroots social movement in American history. Built around lectures and readings in primary and secondary works, and featuring a number of segments of the public television series, "Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years," the course will devote particular attention to the role of rank-and-file activists in shaping the movement. We will also attempt to assess the ways in which the movement changed--and did not change--American society as a whole.
Students will be evaluated on the basis of: (1) attendance at lectures and participation in required weekly discussion sections; (2) three short essay assignments (4 pages each) over the course of the quarter, addressing key historical questions; and (3) an in-class final examination.
These are available at Baytree Bookstore and are also on two-hour reserve at McHenry Library.
Reading:Weisbrot, Freedom Bound, Preface and pp. 1-18
Moody, Coming of Age, pp. 11-138
Reading:Eyes on Prize Reader, pp. 1-106
Moody, Coming of Age, pp. 139-214Film: "Eyes on the Prize," series 1, part 1 ("Awakenings")
Reading:Weisbrot, Freedom Bound, pp. 19-44
Eyes on Prize Reader, pp. 107-132
Carson, In Struggle, Introduction, chs. 1-2
Moody, Coming of Age, pp. 217-58Film: "Eyes," series 1, part 3 ("Ain't Scared of Your Jails")
Reading:Weisbrot, Freedom Bound, pp. 45-85
Eyes on the Prize Reader, pp. 133-65
Carson, In Struggle, chs. 3-7Film: Eyes, series 1, part 4 ("No Easy Walk")
First assignment due Oct. 8
Reading:Weisbrot, Freedom Bound, pp. 86-126
Eyes on the Prize Reader, pp. 166-203
Carson, In Struggle, chs. 8-9
Moody, Coming of Age, pp. 261-384Film: Eyes, series 1, part 5 ("Mississippi: Is This America?")
Reading:Weisbrot, Freedom Bound, pp. 127-53
Eyes on the Prize Reader, pp. 204-27
Carson, In Struggle, chs. 10-11Film: Eyes, series 1, part 6 ("Bridge to Freedom")
Reading:Weisbrot, Freedom Bound, pp. 154-85
Eyes on the Prize Reader, pp. 228-87
Carson, In Struggle, chs. 12-13Film: Eyes, series 2, part 1 ("The Time Has Come")
Second assignment due Oct. 29
Reading:Weisbrot, Freedom Bound, pp. 186-221
Eyes on the Prize Reader, pp. 288-332
Carson, In Struggle, chs. 14-15Film: Eyes, series 2, part 2 ("Two Societies")
Reading:Weisbrot, Freedom Bound, pp. 222-61
Eyes on the Prize Reader, pp. 333-499Film: Eyes, series 2, part 3 ("Power")
Reading:Weisbrot, Freedom Bound, pp. 262-87
Eyes on the Prize Reader, pp. 500-90
Carson, In Struggle, chs. 16-18Film: Eyes, series 2, part 6 ("A Nation of Law?")
Third assignment due Nov. 19
Reading:Weisbrot, Freedom Bound, pp. 288-317
Eyes on the Prize Reader, pp. 591-722
Carson, In Struggle, EpilogueFilm: Eyes, series 2, part 7 ("The Keys to the Kingdom")
Spring 2001
Instructor: Deborah Woo
This course is designed to introduce students to a sociological and critical approach towards health issues and Asian Pacific Americans. What we know about the aggregate APA population suggests they are a largely "healthy minority." The course, however, invites a look into the broader experience and context of health and illness. Because the APA population is extremely diverse, the group research assignment will allow for more in-depth exploration of specific subgroups.
The perspective we will take is both sociological and critical. The sociological perspective focuses on social patterns in the interpretation of individual experience. How, for example, do social class, ethnicity, or race produce disparities in health? How do certain kinds of "culture-bound" (or "societally induced") forms of illnesses broaden our understanding of illness phenomena?
A critical approach implies moving beyond medical assumptions regarding biochemical or physiological processes and focusing instead on issues of power and how this affects access to quality care, exposure to illness-producing conditions, the framing of what we mean by health, illness, or health care, and individual, family, or community responses to disease. Why did nineteenth century San Franciscans respond the way they did to news regarding bubonic plague among the Chinese? Why is medical noncompliance among the Hmong so common? What are the barriers to battered women seeking help? These kinds of questions would be answered very differently from a critical perspective than they would from a medical perspective.
By the completion of this course, students should be able to:
All required and recommended books are available at the Literary Guillotine, 204 Locust St., SC (831-457-1195). The course reader can be purchased at SlugBooks, 224 Cardiff Place, SC (831-469-SLUG).
Narrative evaluations will be based upon two exams and a short paper (3 pps, not including bibliographic sources). The midterm (40%) and post-midterm quiz (30%) will cover assigned readings, lecture, or video materials. The paper is based on a group research assignment.
For the research assignment, each person in a group will be required to compile a bibliography of 5-6 items, one of which (ideally the best) will be circulated among the group. The topic can be a particular Asian subgroup or else a topic already listed in the syllabus (e.g., substance abuse). The group should try to analyze these materials in terms of key concepts from the class text. (These are noted in boldface in Rose Weitz's book). Students will be asked to share their findings with the rest of the class. Individual write-ups (30%) are due the last day of class.
Required Video Viewings (on reserve at McHenry Media Center):
Week 1: Introduction and Overview
Weitz, "Introduction" and "The Social Sources of Illness," pp. 1-49Kernicki, "A Multicultural Perspective of Cardiovascular Disease," 10 pp. (CR)
Weitz, "The Social Distribution of Illness in the United States," pp. 51-83"Briefs: Study Shows High Tobacco Use Among Some APA Groups," 1 p. (CR)
Lavilla, "Tobacco Use Rises: U.S. Study Looks at Trends for Minorities." 2 pp. (CR)
Lavilla, "Cancer Rates: Bad News for Asian Americans; S.F. Conference Wants Better Data Collection and Outreach," 3 pp. (CR)
Ma, "National Anti-Cancer Effort for APIs: Biggest killer of API women," 2 pp. (CR)
Lavilla, "Filipino Immigrants' Diet Linked to Poor Health, AsianWeek, 3 pp. (CR)
Lavilla, "S.F.'s Toxic Time Bomb: Immigrants are Newest Victims of Bayview-Area Hazards," 3 pp. (CR)
Nishioka, "Lead Poisoning a Problem in Chinatown," 2 pp. (CR)
Video assignment: "A Family Gathering" and "Meeting at Tule Lake"
Blaisdell, "Historical and Cultural Aspects of Native Hawaiian Health," 20 pp. (CR)Trauner, "The Chinese as Medical Scapegoats in San Francisco, 1879-1905," 17 pp. (CR)
Nagata, "Intergenerational Effects of the Japanese American Internment," 14 pp. (CR)
Nagata, & Takeshita, "Coping and Resilience across Generations: Japanese Americans and the World War II Internment," 26 pp. (CR)
Becker et al., "Health, Welfare Reform, and Narratives of Uncertainty Among Cambodian Refugees," 24 pp. (CR)
Fadiman, pp. 119-139, 154-170, 181-209, 225-249
In-class video viewing: "Children of the Camps"
Weitz, "The Experience of Chronic Illness and Disability," pp. 149-181Galanti, "Filipino Attitudes Toward Pain Medication," 1 p. (CR)
Fadiman, pp. 1-118
Henderson, "Study Finds Asian-Americans at Higher Risk for Hepatitis C Virus," 3 pp. (CR)
Blair, "Hmong Cultural Values, Biomedicine, and Chronic Liver Disease," 28 pp. (CR)
Weitz, "The Social Meanings of Illness," pp. 117-147Fadiman, pp. 141-153, 171-180, 210-224, 250-288
Adler, "Refugee Stress and Folk Belief: Hmong Sudden Death," 6 pp. (CR)
Video Assignment: "Becoming Americans"
Yi, "Shin-Byung" (Divine Illness) in a Korean Woman," 15 pp. (CR)
Pang, "Hwabyung: The Construction of a Korean Popular Illness Among Korean Elderly Immigrant Women in the United States," 17 pp. (CR)
Weitz, "The Profession of Medicine," pp. 321-359In-class Video Viewing: "Between Two Worlds"
In-Class Midterm
Wolf, "Family Secrets: Transnational Struggles among Children of Filipino Immigrants," 22pp. (CR)
Woo, "Social Patterns in Intimacy and Support: European Americans and Chinese Americans," 25 pp. (CR)
Nishioka, "Korean American Families Need to Talk It Out, Experts Say," 2 pp. (CR)
Mokuau and Tauili'ili, "Families with Native Hawaiian and Pacific Island Roots," 17 pp. (CR)
Zane and Kim, "Substance Use and Abuse," 27 pp. (CR)Nishioka, "Half of APA Men Practice Safe Sex, Study Finds: But Most Don't Seek Reproductive Health Care," 2 pp. (CR)
Nishioka, "Young, Gay and APA," 6 pp.(CR)
Dang, "AIDS Swell Continues Among Gay Minorities: Incidence among APIs still Low, but may be Rising," 2 pp. (CR)
Stoller, "Becoming Visible: Asian Americans," 16 pp. (CR)
Laidler, "Going Home: The Double-Edged Sword, The Paradox of Family Among Women Drug Users in Hawai'i," 13 pp. (CR)
Park, "Starving in Silence: Eating and Body Image Disorders Plague Young Asian and Asian American Women," 4 pp. (CR)
Gray, "The Eating Disorders Inventory among Asian American College Women," 2 pp. (CR)
Lee, "Eating Disorders are Becoming More Common in the East too," 1 p. (CR)
Masaki and Wong, "Domestic Violence in the Asian Community," 12 pp. (CR)Bauer et al., "Barriers to Health Care for Abused Latina and Asian Immigrant Women," 11 pp. (CR)
Nishioka and Ma, "Deadly Despair: Latest Slayings Shock Hmongs - But Violence Transcends Ethnicity,"4 pp. (CR)
Lavilla, "Standing Up to Domestic Violence: Asian Americans Come Together to Fight a Family Threat," 4 pp. (CR)
Benerjee, "Fighting Back Against Domestic Violence: Asian American Women Organize to Break the Silence," 6 pp. (CR)
Weitz, "The Sociology of Mental Illness, pp. 183-219Akutsu, "Mental Health Care Delivery to Asian Americans: Review of the Literature," 12 pp. (CR)
Nishioka, "Fil-Ams Mourn Murder-Suicide Victims: Immigrant's Brother Blames Medication," 2 pp. (CR)
Woo, "The People vs. Fumiko Kimura: But Which People?" 25 pp. (CR)
Hsia-Rei Hicks and Sau-ling Lam, "Decision-Making Within the Social Course of Dementia: Accounts by Chinese-American Caregivers," 37 pp. (CR)
Gonzales, "How Culture-bound is Therapy? One Therapist Finds that We're Not all Just the Same," 4 pp. (CR)Kapulani Mossman Judd, "Laau Lapaau: Herbal Healing among Contemporary Hawai'ian Healers," 6 pp. (CR)
Mayberry et al., "Integrating Cultural Values, Beliefs, and Customs into Pregnancy and Postpartum Care: Lessons Learned from a Hawaiian Public Health Nursing Project," 4 pp. (CR)
Uba, Laura, "Supply of Health Care Professionals," 20 pp. (CR)
Hornberger et al., "Bridging Language and Cultural Barriers Between Physicians and Patients," 8 pp. (CR)Lavilla, "A Healthy Initiative for U.S.," 2 pp.(CR)
Banerjee, "Attacking Cancer in Viet-Am Women: UCSF Project Targets Group with Highest Cervical Cancer Rate Among All Ethnicities," 2 pp. (CR)
Nishioka, "Health Advocacy," 2 pp. (CR)
Bau, "Voices: We're Not All a Picture of Health," 3 pp. (CR)
Ma, "Health Care in Asian American Communities," 22 pp. (CR)
Due: Research Assignment
Instructor: Scott Morgensen
TTh 10 - 11:45 AM
e-mail: rscott@cats.ucsc.edu
mailbox: College Eight Faculty Services
This course examines how race, gender, and sexuality shape a variety of social practices named by the term "globalization." Students will critically understand, evaluate, and propose forms of social activism engaging sex, race, and globalization. Primary topics include: sexual/racial dynamics of "free trade" and labor fragmentation; transnational LGBTI/queer politics; global sex trades; politics of HIV/AIDS in the South and North.
The course is grounded in three linked perspectives on globalization. The course arises centrally from the political stakes, movement histories, and social theories of Third World feminisms. The course builds from scholarship on the sexual/racial legacies of colonialism that shape today's political economies. The course finally rests in feminist anthropological study of how local dynamics produce global situations. These three perspectives show us how popular globalization theories and anti-globalization activisms miss their mark when they fail to analyze sex and race. In turn, these perspectives teach us how to engage effective grass-roots, transnational activism.
Students' core work will be to develop a proposal for research on sexual/racial effects of globalization, and forms of activism engaging them. Students will examine their own positionalities in relation to course material, to activism, and to possible research. Community Studies majors will gain experience proposing field study, and other students will benefit from examining the relation between theory and social action.
Important note on enrollment:
The course is designed for juniors and seniors ready for intensive upper-division study, writing, and research. There are no prerequisites, but the course will be most accessible to students who have done work in one of these fields: Third World feminism; theory of race and racism; globalization studies; histories of colonialism; multi-racial LGBTI/queer studies. Fall quarter sophomores with experience should write to the instructor before enrolling; or, consider one of the following as prep for taking CMMU 151 another year:
WMST 1B
Third World Feminism
WMST 145
Women of Color in the US
SOCY 163
Global Corporations and Nation States
LALS 160
North American Integration: Post NAFTA
CMMU 143
Global Political Economy
ANTH 127
Ethnographies of Capitalism
AMST 101
Race and Ethnicity
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Percent of final eval |
Requirement |
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20% |
Attendance and participation in lectures and discussion sections |
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45% |
Three Essays (3 - 5 pages each) examining course readings |
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35% |
Research Proposal (7 - 10 pp.) for ethnographic field study in community-based social action on questions related to the course. Note: If you do not pass the Research Proposal, you cannot pass the class. |
There will be no final exam.
Introduce the course and each other. Define scope of study and major terms (including "globalization"), in context of critical anthropological readings of the social construction of political and economic theory, and clarifying perspectives of Third World feminist theories/practices/social movements.
Overview of globalization in relation to colonial legacies, Third World nationalisms, and contemporary political economy, using feminist analyses of sexuality, gender, and race. Consider degrees to which globalization sustains past social formations or produces ones heretofore unknown.First Paper Due
First case study: Shifting gender roles, race relations, and negotiation of sexuality in industrial labor of "free trade" zones. Focus on maquiladoras along US/Mexico border; sweatshop labor in Southeast Asia, the South Pacific, and US; and prison labor in the US.Second Paper Due
Second case study: Emergent transnational LGBTI/queer politics, highlighting shaping roles of global information technologies, labor migration, and tourisms. Focus on contests over: marginal sexualities/genders in Third World contexts; diasporic communities of lgbti/q people; queer tourisms; mobilization of international human rights discourses in relation to marginal sexualities and genders.
Third case study: Interplays of constraint and agency among workers in international sex trades. Focus on political economies of migration for sex work, sexual enslavement, client cultures, and sex worker organizing - unions and transnational advocacy networks. Emphasis on Third World women, men, and transgender sex workers.Research Proposal Due
Fourth case study: AIDS and social transformations in Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Focus on comparative politics of HIV/AIDS prevention in the Philippines, Southern Africa, Brazil, and the US. Special critical analysis of historical and current representations of "African AIDS" in relation to struggle against AIDS in African American communities and work within/across multiple US communities of color.Final Paper Due
Students present proposed research projects. Course wrap-up and evaluations.