ES 191 - Research in Ethnic Studies

Session #1 - in class


Please note: All students enrolled in Ethnic Studies 191 must attend the weekly class meetings on Mondays at 9:00-11:55 AM (SSB 103).

 

Read the following selections from book introductions included in the course reader:

Stuart Hall, Chas Critcher, et. al., Policing the Crisis, Mugging, the State, and Law and Order. New York, Macmillan, 1978, vii-x.

Cornell, Stephen. The Return of the Native. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988, Preface, v-viii; Chapter I, 3-7.

Gutiérrez, Ramón. When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991, Introduction, xvii-xxxi.

These are the questions we will address:

1) What research project does the author describe in the introduction?

2) How does the author situate the project in relation to other work done on the topic?

3) How does the author situate his or her own position as an academic researcher in relation to the subject(s) studied?

We will discuss the following in class when and if time permits:

Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment, Perspectives on Gender, Volume 2, New York: Routledge, 1990, Preface, xi-xv; Chapter 1, 3-18.
 
Lipsitz, George. Time Passages: Collective Memory and American Popular Culture. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1990, Preface, vii-xvii.


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