History of Consciousness - Winter 1998

This course examines the political and economic histories and cultures of indigenous women in the US and Canada in relationship to colonialism, gender and sexuality roles, and race relations within and between indigenous, US, and Canadian nations. Topics include epistemology (feminism, environmentalism), sovereignty struggles, questions of what counts as "tradition" and why that matters, social issues such as domestic violence, and grandmothers.

A wide variety of literature will be read, including Beth Brant's "Writing As Witness" (Mohawk lesbian), Elizabeth Cook-Lynn's "Why I Can't Read Wallace Stegner and Other Essays: A Tribal Voice" (Lakota intellectual), Janet Campbell Hale's "The Jailing of Cecilia Capture" (Coeur d'Alene novelist), K. Tsianina Lomawaima's "They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School" (Creek scholar), Janet Silman's "Enough is Enough: Aboriginal Women Speak Out" (addressing First Nation women's activism), and Luci Tapahonso's "Sáanii Dahataal: The Women Are Singing" (Navajo poet).

Course materials also include a compilation of Native women's music by Rayna Green (Cherokee activist and NMAI director) entitled "Heartbeats: First Nation Women's Music" (1996).

Films/videos to be screened in class include:

• Arlene Bowman's "Song Journey" (1996).
• Judi Jeffrey's "Honouring Our Voices" (1993).
• Christine Lesiak and Matthew Jones's "In The White Man's Image" (1991).
• Greg Sarris's "Grand Avenue" (1996).
• Susan Smith's "Sweating Indian Style" (1994).
• Saundra Sharp's "Picking Tribes" (1988).
• Malinda Maynor's "Real Indian" (1996).

For more information, contact the History of Consciousness Department at 459-2757.

NOTE: THIS IS A PRELIMINARY SYLLABUS ONLY!

The seminar discussions will treat the following themes and materials:

• week 1: Introduction: distinction between ethnic, religious, cultural, and national identities
• week 2: Background: history of Germans and Jews in central Europe
• week 3: Beginnings: Enlightenment Germany and Jewish participation. Case studies: Mendelssohn; Varnhagen
• week 4: Emancipation: Berlin and Prussia. Case study: Steinheim
• week 5: Academia: Jews and the German universities. Case studies: "Wissenschaft des Judentums"; Graetz; Rosenzweig and Buber
• week 6: Military service: Jews and the German army. Case studies: Franco-Prussian War (1870-71); World War I (1914-18)
• week 7: Politics: Jews in the government. Case study: Rathenau
• week 8: Economy: Jews, German banks, and reparations. Case study: the house of Warburg
• week 9: Anti-semitism: rejection of Jews as Germans. Case studies: Stoecker; Weimar theologians; Hitler's National Socialism
• week 10: German-Jewish response: abandon Germany or remain. Case studies: Herzl and Zionism; ben Chorin; Baeck; Schoeps

BENDIX, Reinhard: From Berlin to Berkeley (Brunswick: Transaction, 1986)

BOLKOSKY, Sidney: The Distorted Image: German Jewish Perception of Germans and Germany, 1918-1935 (New York: Elsevier, 1975)

BRENNER, Michael: The Renaissance of Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany (New Haven: Yale University, 1996)

BRONSEN, David, ed.: Jews and Germans from 1860 to 1933: the problematic Symbiosis (Heidelberg: Winter, 1979)

CHERNOW, Ron: The Warburgs (New York: Random, 1993)

DICKINSON, John: German and Jew: the Life of Sigmund Stein (Chicago: Quadrangle, 1967)

DIPPEL, John: Bound upon a Wheel of Fire: why so many German Jews made the tragic Decision to remain in Nazi Germany (New York: Basic Books, 1996)

FEUCHTWANGER, Lion: Power (or: Jud suess) (New York: Modern Library, 1932) (1925)

FISCHER, Erica: Aimee & Jaguar: eine Liebesgeschichte Berlin 1943 (Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1994)

GAY, Peter: Freud, Jews and other Germans: Masters and Victims in Modernist Culture (New York: Oxford, 1978)

GAY, Ruth: The Jews of Germany: A Historical Portrait (New Haven: Yale University, 1992)

"Danke Schoen, Herr Doktor: German Jews in Palestine," in: American Scholar, Autumn 1989, 567-577

GILBERT, Felix: A European Past: memories, 1905-1945 (New York: Norton, 1988)

GILMAN, Sander: Yale Companion to Jewish Writing and Jack ZIPES and Thought in German Culture, 1096-1996 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997)

KATZ, Jacob: Out of the Ghetto: the social Background of Jewish Emancipation, 1770-1870 (Cambridge: Harvard, 1973)

KESSLER, Harry Count: Walther Rathenau: his life and work (New York: AMS, 1975)

LAQUEUR, Walter: A History of Zionism (New York: Schocken, 1989)

LEASE, Gary: "Steinheim and Schoeps: a case Study in the Abuse of Influence," in: "Odd Fellows" in the Politics of Religion (Berlin/New York: 1995), 191-210

"Who was the Christian, who the Jew?," in: ibid., 211-220

"Prussian, Conservative, Jew but not German," ibid., 221-231

LOW, Alfred: Jews in the Eyes of the Germans: from the Enlightenment to Imperial Germany (Philadelphia: Institute for Study of Human Issues, 1979)

LOEWITH, Karl: My Life in Germany before and after 1933 (Urbana: Illinois, 1994)

LOWENTHAL, Marvin: The Jews of Germany: a Story of 16 Centuries (New York: Russell & Russell, 1970) (1936)

MEYER, Michael: The German Jews: some Perspectives on their History (Syracuse: Syracuse University, 1991)

The Origins of the Modern Jew: Jewish Identity and European Culture in Germany, 1749-1924 (Detroit: Wayne State, 1979) (1967)

and Michael Brenner: German-Jewish History in Modern Times (New York: Columbia, 1996- )

MOSSE, George: German Jews beyond Judaism (Bloomington: Indiana, 1985)

Germans and Jews: the Right, the Left and the Search for a "Third Force" in pre-Nazi Germany (New York: Fertig, 1970)

NIEWYK, Donald: The Jews in Weimar Germany (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State, 1980)

REINHARZ, Jehuda: Fatherland or Promised Land: the Dilemma of the German Jew, 1893-1914 (Ann Arbor: Michigan, 1975)

and Walter Schatzberg: The Jewish Response to German Culture: from the Enlightenment to the 2nd World War (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1985)

TAL, Uriel: Christians and Jews in Germany: Religion, Politics and Ideology in the 2nd Reich, 1870-1914 (Ithaca: Cornell, 1975)

WYDEN, Peter: Stella (New York: Simon/Schuster, 1992)

ZWEIG, Stefan: The World of Yesterday (Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 1971) (1943)

JUD SUESS (1940) written and directed by Veit Harlan (from the 1925 novel by Lion Feuchtwangler) (85 minutes = 1 hour 25 minutes)

Students will be evaluated on the strength and extent of their contribution to seminar discussion, and on a written research paper to be submitted at the conclusion of the seminar.

History of Consciousness 217B for winter quarter 1998 will be a writing-intensive workshop following from the fall 1997 reading-intensive seminar devoted to the work of the British social anthropologist, Marilyn Strathern. Enrollment is limited to students who took HISC 217A in Fall 1997 or consent of instructor.

Revised 7/12/04.