English 517.10/607.07 CRITICAL RACE THEORY

Fall-Winter 1998-99

Aruna Srivastava Office: SS1018

Phone: 220-4663 Office hours: T 4-5pm, W 2-3pm or by appointment

homepage: http://www.ucalgary.ca/~asrivast e-mail: asrivast@acs.ucalgary.ca

 

Texts: These are the texts I have ordered into the bookstore. You will be reading a total of 8 texts (or the equivalent), some of your own choosing.

Select 6 texts from the following list. After you have spent some time deciding on the course themes that interest you, read another 2 texts (or equivalent number of articles) you will find on your own. You should decide on these extra texts (so that you have time to order them) by the middle of December. Large anthologies (below) count as the equivalent of 2 texts: read at least one of these longer texts. Please do not feel limited by this list. In consultation with me, feel free to read outside of it.

 

Anthologies (count as two texts)

Critical Race Theory : The Cutting Edge (ed.Richard Delgado).

Critical Race Theory: The Essential Readings (ed. Kimberlé Crenshaw).

Critical Race Feminism (ed. Adrien Wing)

Critical White Studies (eds. Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic)

Race, Identity and Representation in Education (eds. Cameron McCarthy and Warren Crichlow).

 

Other texts:

Broken Entries (Roy Miki)--available in October

Looking White People in the Eye (Sherene Razack)

Thinking Through (Himani Bannerji)

Alchemy of Race and Rights (Patricia Williams)

Revolutionary Multiculturalism (Peter McLaren)

White (Richard Dyer)

 

Assignments:

I would like to negotiate types and weightings of assignments with each member of the class. These are the parameters (limitations?) within which you can choose. Obviously, each assignment will have to cover a few of these "rules", depending on the number of assignments you elect to do.

 

  1. At least one of your assignments should include group work.
  2. At least one of your assignments should include individual work..
  3. One or more of your assignments should involve significant web-based research.
  4. One or more of your assignments should involve significant library research.
  5. At least one of your assignments should involve some personal and critical reflection on a range of the reading you have done for the course.
  6. At least one of your assignments should involve some sort of "presentation" (live or otherwise!) to the entire class.
  7. At least 10% of your grade must reflect your ongoing participation in the class.
  8. You must hand in a minimum of two assignments.
  9. Keep the maximum number of assignments you hand in to a reasonable number.
  10. Make sure that you have presented (even in progress) one of your assignments in the Fall term.
  11. No single assignment can be worth more than 50% of your total grade.
  12. Make sure it all adds up to 100%!

 

Reading journal, web page, research project (such as annotated bibiliography), essay (please see me about these first), collaborative or individual oral presentations, internet presentations, evaluation of in-class and/or e-mail discussion throughout the year, participation in organizing a CRT conference (probably for Fall 1999), projects on film, television, or other media related to the course, guest lecturing for other courses on subjects related to the course, conference presentation, work on class CRT website, work on CRT "handbook", projects on institutional culture, on connections to community, on connections between anti-racism and critical race theory; reading of literary texts in the light of CRT, etc….