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 2021
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	47097	Online Discussion	A	3:00PM -4:50PM	M	n.a.	Espiritu, A McDuffie, E	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/23/21-12/08/21 Section Title: Culture, Class and Space Section Info: Topic: Transnationalism and Empire Description: Transnationalism, alongside of “global” discourses, has emerged in the last two decades as an important problem of contemporary knowledge production, and has increasingly become a concern of historians. In this course, with a critical though not exclusive focus upon the history of the United States, we will grapple with the complex questions raised by transnationalism. Did transnationalism come after the constitution of nations or was it one of the nation’s essential preconditions? How has transnationalism shaped the construction of national, race, gender, and sexual ideologies in the USA and other empires? Is transnationalism, as pilgrimage, tourism, exile, or diaspora, a necessarily liberating predicament, or does it in fact reinforce neo-imperial and neo-colonial structures? How has the act of claiming America obscured transnational, transborder, and transoceanic processes? And finally, how have transnationalism and empire raised fundamental questions about sovereignty and modernity in the twenty-first century? Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
	43102	Online Discussion	B	1:00PM -2:50PM	W	n.a.	Oberdeck, K	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/23/21-12/08/21 Section Title: Culture, Class, and Space Section Info: Topic: Culture, Space and Social Distinction. Description: This readings seminar will focus on cultural and intellectual formations that speak to intersectional social identities and distinctions 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 intersectionality distinctions of class, race, gender, ethnicity and sexuality and about their relation 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, the social distinctions described above, 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. Likely topics include constructions of place and home across lines of race and indigeneity; cultural constructions of work and workplaces; gendered self-construction in urban spaces; 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.