Undergraduate courses in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity

(Same as AFRICAAM 12.) From the 2008 nomination process to the election between Senators John McCain and Barack Obama.The complexities of identity and its role in uniting and dividing the electorate. Panels covering the media, political participation, and group affiliation.

1-3 units, Aut (Elam, M; Snipp, C)

CSRE 109A. Federal Indian Law

(Same as NATIVEAM 109A.) Cases, legislation, comparative justice models, and historical and cultural material. The interlocking relationships of tribal, federal, and state governments. Emphasis is on economic development, religious freedom, and environmental justice issues in Indian country.

5 units, Aut (Biestman, K)

CSRE 109B. Indian Country Economic Development

(Same as NATIVEAM 109B.) The history of competing tribal and Western economic models, and the legal, political, social, and cultural implications for tribal economic development. Case studies include mineral resource extraction, gaming, and cultural tourism. 21st-century strategies for sustainable economic development and protection of political and cultural sovereignty.

5 units, not given this year

CSRE 117S. History of California Indians

(Same as NATIVEAM 117S.) Demographic, political, and economic history of California Indians, 1700s-1950s. Processes and events leading to the destruction of California tribes, and their effects on the groups who survived. Geographic and cultural diversity. Spanish, Mexican, and Anglo-American periods. The mission system. GER:EC-AmerCul

5 units, Win (Shively, J)

CSRE 121C. Chicana/o Film Practices

(Same as CHICANST 121C.) The ideological parameters of Chicanismo, including migration, labor, organized state violence, collectivism, familialism, spirtual practices, gender, and sexual politics. The cultural, aesthetic, and political dimensions of film form, including formal and textual analysis.

5 units, not given this year

CSRE 121R. Redefining the Nation: Chicana/o Literature and Art From the 1960s to the Present

(Same as CHICANST 121R.) Topics include categories of national identity construction and identity performance such as the body, family, and community. Borderlands as a transnational concept emphasizing links between the U.S. and other regions of the continent.

5 units, Win (Staff)

CSRE 122. Introduction to Latina Literature

(Same as CHICANST 122.) Interdisciplinary. Intracultural differences amongst Latinas such as around immigration. Themes include gender, sexuality, identity, language politics, transnationalism, socioeonomic status, and the notion of homeland and its loss and reclamation.

3-5 units, Spr (Staff)

CSRE 131. Race and Reconciliation in Post-Apartheid Literature

Modes of racial reconciliation and differentiation in post-apartheid literature, motivated by seemingly contradictory impulses: to surmount racial differences by integrating into a national culture; and for racial identity through the revival of diverse ethnic origins. The relationship between literary aesthetics and racial politics for a society seeking radical but peaceful transition.

500 units, not given this year

CSRE 131A. Race and Reconciliation in Post-Apartheid Literature

How the writers of the new S. Africa have narrated the past as a way of imagining its future. Racial reconciliation in new S. African literature, and the relationship between literary aesthetics and racial politics for a society in transition. Negotiation and invention motivated by a desire to surmount racial differences through integration into a national culture and a yearning for racial identity through the revival of diverse ethnic origins.

5 units, not given this year

CSRE 145A. Poetics and Politics of Caribbean Women's Literature

(Same as ANTHRO 145A.) Mid 20th-century to the present. How historical, economic, and political conditions in Haiti, Cuba, Jamaica, Antigua, and Guadeloupe affected women. How Francophone, Anglophone, and Hispanophone women novelists, poets, and short story writers respond to similar issues and pose related questions. Caribbean literary identity within a multicultural and diasporic context; the place of the oral in the written feminine text; family and sexuality; translation of European master texts; history, memory, and myth; and responses to slave history, colonialism, neocolonialism, and globalization. GER:DB-SocSci, DB-SocSci, EC-Gender

5 units, Win (Duffey, C)

CSRE 165A. Chicana/o History

(Same as CHICANST 165A, HISTORY 264X.) The history of Mexican-origin people in the U.S. from 1848 to the present. Mexican American experiences as integral to American history. Tthemes include the effects of conquest, patterns of migration, labor and the formation of social classes, racialization, gender roles, ideology, and political activism.

5 units, Aut (Staff)

CSRE 173S. Transcultural and Multiethnic Lives: Contexts, Controversies, and Challenges

(Same as ASNAMST 173S.) Lived experience of people who dwell in the border world of race and nation where they negotiate transcultural and multiethnic identities and politics. Comparative, historical, and global contexts such as family and class. Controversies, such as representations of mixed race people in media and multicultural communities. What the lives of people like Tiger Woods and Barack Obama reveal about how the marginal is becoming mainstream.

5 units, Spr (Staff)

CSRE 179G. Indigenous Identity in Diaspora: People of Color Art Practice in North America

(Same as DRAMA 179G, DRAMA 279G.) Gateway course for Institute for Diversity in Arts concentration. People of color aesthetics from contemporary art works in conversation with native (American, African, Asian) origins, gender, and sexuality; the formation of cultural identity. Final project.

5 units, Spr (Moraga, C)

CSRE 180C. Asian American Sexualities

(Same as ASNAMST 180C, PSYCH 180C.) Seminar. Mutual constitution of culture and sexuality among Asian Americans; attitudes, behaviors, taboos, and identity. How masculinity and femininity are portrayed in the media; cultural attitudes toward homosexuality; and sexual politics. Social, political, and psychological implications.

5 units, not given this year

CSRE 187C. Latino Children: Cultural and Social Contexts of Development

(Same as CHICANST 187C.) Ecological contexts, including family, school, and society, that shape the psychosocial and educational outcomes of Latino children. Sources include developmental and cultural psychology, anthropology of education, and sociology. (Borsato)

5 units, not given this year

CSRE 189W. Language and Minority Rights

(Same as CHICANST 189W.) Language as it is implicated in migration and globalization. The effects of globalization processes on languages, the complexity of language use in migrant and indigenous minority contexts, the connectedness of today's societies brought about by the development of communication technologies. Individual and societal multilingualism; preservation and revival of endangered languages.

3 units, Win (Staff)

CSRE 190. Disciplinary Boundaries: Research Methods in the Academy

Faculty presentations from Anthropology, English, Psychology, Political Science, History, Sociology, and Drama. Collaborative research, and feminist ethnographic methods.

3 units, not given this year

CSRE 192. Race and Slavery in Brazil and the United States

Did race motivate enslavement or was racial profiling a product of slavery? Brazilian or American slavery and what it means to be a person of color in these countries today. Love, hatred, and endurance in two divided societies. Sources include historical narratives, literature, film, music, and iconography.

5 units, not given this year

CSRE 196C. Introduction to Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity

(Same as ENGLISH 172D, HISTORY 65, PSYCH 155, SOC 146.) How different disciplines approach topics and issues central to the study of ethnic and race relations in the U.S. and elsewhere. Lectures by senior faculty affiliated with CSRE. Discussions led by CSRE teaching fellows. GER:DB-SocSci, EC-AmerCul

5 units, given next year

CSRE 198. Internship for Public Service

Restricted to CSRE comparative studies majors with a concentration in public service. Students consult with the CSRE undergraduate program director and CSRE affiliated faculty to develop an internship. Group meetings. May be repeated for credit.

1-5 units, Aut (Mitchell, T), Win (Mitchell, T), Spr (Mitchell, T)

CSRE 199. Pre-Honors Seminar

For students interested in writing a senior honors thesis. Conceptualizing and defining a manageable honors project, conducting interdisciplinary research, the parameters of a literature review essay, and how to identify a faculty adviser. (Thompson)

1 unit, Win (Quinn, R)

CSRE 200X. CSRE Senior Seminar

5 units, not given this year

CSRE 201B. From Racial Justice to Multiculturalism: Movement-based Arts Organizing in the Post Civil Rights Era

(Same as CHICANST 201B.) How creative projects build and strengthen communities of common concern. Projects focus on cultural reclamation, multiculturalism, cultural equity and contemporary cultural wars, media literacy, independent film, and community-based art. Guest artists and organizers, films, and case studies.

5 units, Aut (Hernandez, G)

CSRE 203A. The Changing Face of America: Civil Rights and Education Strategies for the 21st Century

For students with leadership potential who have studied these topics in lecture format. Race discrimination strategies, their relation to education reform initiatives, and the role of media in shaping racial attitudes in the U.S.

5 units, Spr (Montoya, J; Steyer, J)

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Undergraduate courses in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity