Welcome to the course website for Comparative Theories of Race and Ethnicity at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Winter 2021. This page contains the schedule of assignments. Schedule is subject to change.
T 1/5 Introduction: The Time and Space of Ethnic Studies
TH 1/7 Comparative Racialization I: Race in a Transborder Context
- Anna Giartelli, ‘DHS: Caravan Migrants from 20 Countries, Include 270 Convicted Criminals’
- Andrea Smith, ‘Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy’
- On Canvas: reading journal and writing assignment 1 (organizing analysis)
- Lecture 1: Organizing Analysis (8:43) [video] [audio only]
- Lecture 2: Colonial Logics of Race [video] [audio only]
T 1/12 Comparative Racialization II: Colonial Logics of Race
- Patrick Wolfe, ‘Land, Labor, and Difference: Elementary Structures of Race’
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Indigenous People’s History of the US, 32-116
- Lecture: Colonial Logics of Race [video] [powerpoint slides]
Note: Heavy reading load for today. Please set aside extra prep time.
TH 1/14 Comparative Racialization III: Indigeneity and the Making of Empire
- On Canvas: reading journal and writing assignment 2 (identifying racial logics)
- Lecture: Identifying Racial Logics [video] [audio only] [powerpoint slides]
T 1/19 Comparative Racialization IV: Logics of Exclusion
- Iyko Day, Alien Capital, 16-34 (begin with section ‘Settler Colonialism, or Postcolonial Colonialism’)
- Thomas Almaguer, Introduction and Chapter 1, Racial Fault Lines
- Optional extra article referenced in lecture: Sanchez and Pita, ‘Rethinking Settler Colonialism‘
- Lecture: Logics of Exclusion [video] [powerpoint slides]
TH 1/21 Comparative Racialization V: Racial State
- On Canvas: reading journal and writing assignment 3 (contextualizing difference)
- Lecture: Contextualizing Difference [video] [audio only] [powerpoint slides]
F 1/22 Special Event – Christine Hong book celebration: A Violent Peace: Race, US Militarism, and Cultures of Democratization in Cold War Asia and the Pacific
T 1/26 Comparative Racialization VI: Border Regimes
- Ofelia Rivas with Jeff Hendricks, ‘Immigration, Imperialism, and Cultural Genocide’
- Harsha Walia, ‘What Is Border Imperialism’ (p35-80 of Unthinking Border Imperialism; 26-48 of the PDF)
- Tohono O’Odham Nation’s video on the border wall (discussed in lecture)
- Lecture: Border Regimes and Paper Preparation [video] [powerpoint slides]
TH 1/28 Paper Preparation
- On Canvas: reading journal and writing assignment 4 (paper outline)
- No recorded lecture this week; thesis and paper outlining info was given in the lecture posted above from Tuesday
F 1/29 Outline of Paper 1 Due 12pm
T 2/2 Race and Global Order I: What are Capitalism and Colonialism?
- Introductory reading on colonialism
- Robin Kelley, ‘What Is Racial Capitalism and Why Does It Matter?’ [VIDEO]
- Lecture: Race and Global Order [video] [powerpoint slides]
Note: No reading journal or short assignment due this week
TH 2/4 NO CLASS; PAPER #1 DUE 930AM
T 2/9 Race and Global Order II: Race and the Surveillance State
- Deepa Kumar, Selection from Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire
- Sabrina Alimohamed, ‘Homeland Security, Inc.’
- Lecture: Neoconservatism and the Racial State [video] [powerpoint slides]
TH 2/11 Race and Global Order III: Orientalisms
- Lecture: Islamophobia, Race, and Orientalism [video] [audio only]
- Junaid Rana, ‘The Story of Islamophobia’
- Jasbir Puar, ‘Abu Ghraib and US Sexual Exceptionalism’ (note: this reading discusses images of incarceration in a US-run prison in Iraq)
- Please review the website for Muslim Justice League
- Complete reading journal by Friday 12pm; no additional writing assignment
T 2/16 Special Public Event with Fatema Ahmad, Executive Director of the Muslim Justice League (Boston): #StopCVE: Challenging State Surveillance of Muslims in the Biden/Harris Era, 830-10am
- Please read StopCVE Primer and Atiya Husain, “Terror and Abolition“
- 830-845am, short in-class meet and greet with Fatema – use our regular class Zoom link
- 9-10am, public Zoom webinar, please register at least 24 hours in advance
Note: 2/16 is the withdraw deadline
TH 2/18 Race and Global Order IV: Racial Capitalism
F 2/19 Special Event – Xavier Livermon book celebration: Kwaito Bodies: Remastering Space and Subjectivity in Postapartheid South Africa
T 2/23 Race and Global Order V: Origins
- Lecture: Racial Capitalism [video] [audio only] [powerpoint slides]
- Reread Robinson Chapter 1
TH 2/25 Race and Global Order VI: Expansion
- Cedric Robinson, Black Marxism, Chapter 5
T 3/2 Race and Global Order VII: Containment
- Ruth Gilmore, Selections, Golden Gulag
- Lecture: Racial Capitalism in the 21st Century [video] [powerpoint slides]
TH 3/4 Race and Global Order VIII: Resistance
- McClure, et. al., “Racial Capitalism within Public Health – How Occupational Settings Drive Covid-19 Disparities”
- Anti-Eviction Mapping Project, ‘Narratives of Displacement and Resistance‘
T 3/9 NO CLASS; PAPER #2 DUE 930AM
TH 3/11 Live Session – Course Conclusion
- Nick Estes, ‘Indigenous Resistance is Post-Apocalyptic‘
T 3/16 CRITICAL RACE ANALYSIS DUE 1PM