HIST 572

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Prob in US Hist Since 1815

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Credit: 4 hours.

Topics will be listed in the department's course guide at http://www.history.illinois.edu.

May be repeated in the same or subsequent terms as topics vary.

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HIST 572 class schedule data for fall 2015
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	47097	Discussion/ Recitation	A	3:00PM -4:50PM	R	215 David Kinley Hall	Oberdeck, K	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/24/15-12/09/15 Section Title: Culture, Class and Space Section Info: Topic: Culture, Class and Space. Description: This readings seminar will focus on cultural and intellectual formations that speak to intersectional class identities as they operate at a variety of scales: local, national, imperial, global, and/or mobilized across one or more of these. We will ask about the significance and relevance of class distinctions in relation to other dimensions of social identity (e.g. race, gender, ethnicity and sexuality) and to geographical place and scale as they shape cultural production, reception, expression and conflict. The first few weeks are of conceptual and methodological readings on studying culture, class, and relevant conceptions of geographical scale. Subsequent weeks explore these issues through book- and article-length secondary readings ranging topically from the mid-nineteenth through the late-twentieth centuries, accompanied in many cases by illustrative primary texts. These readings will focus on issues of cultural production, constructions of working-class and middle-class identities through culture; the relation of class to distinctions of race, gender, ethnicity and sexuality; cultural work on empire; and global cultural connections. Likely topics include popular literature, class, and race; cultural constructions of work and workplaces; working-class writing and reading; African American cultural constructions of class; culture and spatial mobility; and the relevance of urban/rural/suburban distinctions to cultural constructions of class, race and gender. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.