AAS 590

Fall 2008 All Classes

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Asian Am Studies Seminar

Credit: 2 TO 4 hours.

Approved for both letter and S/U grading. May be repeated to a maximum of 8 hours. Prerequisite: Graduate standing or consent of instructor.

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AAS 590 class schedule data for fall 2008
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	51251	Lecture-Discussion	JR	3:00PM -5:50PM	W	103 Bevier Hall	Rana, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/08-12/10/08 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Race and Ethnography Section Info: Meets with LLS 596, CRN 51888, section JR, AFRO 598, CRN 51975, section JR, and ANTH 515, CRN 52011, section JR. Anthropology has for long held an important role in the debate on race, including how it is studied and its discussion in the public sphere. This course is an intensive graduate seminar of the study of the concepts of race and racism through the anthropological method of ethnography. Beginning with some of the important historical debates regarding the study of race as a social concept in anthropology, we will then approach recent case studies through a set of themes that theorize race as lived experience.
	49538	Lecture-Discussion	KO	12:00PM -2:50PM	T	209 David Kinley Hall	Ono, K	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/08-12/10/08 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Media, Metaphor, Marginality Section Info: Meets with COMM 590, CRN 51643, section K. This graduate seminar explores the role metaphors in media culture play in discursively constructing social marginality. In particular, metaphors have been used as a racializing device, such as when animality is assigned to people of color; when water and aquatic terminology is used to characterize immigrants; and when medical idioms work to justify segregation and exclusion. The seminar begins with a discussion of metaphor, then moves on to study different uses of metaphors to inscribe gendered, sexual, racial, and national marginalization. Readings include work by Susan Sontag, Jasbir Puar, Richard King, Caren Irr, Peter Murphy, Paige Dubois, and Avery Gordon.