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HIST-LIT 90DI: Speculative Fictions in Multiethnic America

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2019
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Instructor: Ellen Song
Meeting time: Thursday, 9:45 - 11:45

Speculative FictionSpeculative fiction, especially science fiction, is known to be a predominantly white genre; data from one source, the sci-fi trade journal Locus, indicates that less than 5% of SF and fantasy books published are by writers of color. This course examines in an intentionally multi-ethnic framework speculative fiction written by African American, Asian American, and white authors alike in ... Read more about HIST-LIT 90DI: Speculative Fictions in Multiethnic America

HIST-LIT 90DG: Everyday Life in Cold War Berlin

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2019
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Instructor: Briana Smith
Meeting time: Monday, 3:00 - 5:00

Cold War BerlinIn this course, we will examine the history of Berlin from the "rubble years" after World War II, through the aftermath of German unification in the 1990s from the perspective of the history of everyday life. Our discussion of diaries, primary source documents, historical studies, literature, films, art, and music produced in divided Berlin will reveal how the divided city shaped individual... Read more about HIST-LIT 90DG: Everyday Life in Cold War Berlin

HIST-LIT 90CU: Fashion and Slavery

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2019
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Instructor: Jonathan Square
Meeting time: Tuesday, 3:00 - 5:00

Fasion and SlaveryThis course examines the politics of fashion among people of African descent during slavery and the period immediately followed emancipation. Fashion is generative, yet underutilized analytic to explore the experience of the enslaved and their descendants. Geographical breadth is crucial to examining the African Diaspora in its full complexity; therefore, course material ... Read more about HIST-LIT 90CU: Fashion and Slavery

HIST-LIT 90CF: The American Prison & the Literature of Punishment

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2019
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Instructor: Thomas Dichter
Meeting time: Thursday, 3:00 - 5:00

The American Prison and the Literature of PunishmentThe United States currently keeps more people behind bars than any other country. While the US’s emergence as the leader in incarceration rates is relatively recent, the prison has loomed large in American public life for 200 years. In this class, we will approach the prison not as a marginal phenomenon, but as an institution central to American culture. Readings include ... Read more about HIST-LIT 90CF: The American Prison & the Literature of Punishment

HL90DM: America's Queer Canon

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2019

Instructor: Paul Edwards
Meeting time: Tuesday, 9:45 - 11:45

America's Queer CanonThis course examines a range of texts from American authors, poets, musicians, and film directors that engage with queer and subversive themes and desires, various sexual identities, and other relations outside of the heterosexual nuclear family. Central to the course's investigation are the intersections between queer theory, feminism, and critical race theory. ... Read more about HL90DM: America's Queer Canon

HL90CQ: Afro-Latin American Cultures: Race, Religion, Music, and Literature

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2019

Instructor: Rebecca A. Kennedy de Lorenzini
Meeting time: Wednesday, 12:45 - 2:45

Afro Latin American Cultures
This course will explore the history of Afro-Latin American culture as expressed through literature, music, dance, and religious and spiritual practices. Beginning with an analysis of the theoretical framework of the African diaspora, we will ask central questions around how and why African heritage has been celebrated or rendered invisible in Latin America. ... Read more about HL90CQ: Afro-Latin American Cultures: Race, Religion, Music, and Literature

HL90BO: Sports and Empire

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2019

Instructor: Daniel Loss
Meeting time: Monday, 9:45 - 11:45

Sports and EmpireOne of the enduring legacies of modern imperialism has been the spread of British and American sports around the globe. This seminar takes the connection between sports and imperialism as a starting point to explore questions about the nature of imperialism, the response of colonized peoples to imperial projects, and the ... Read more about HL90BO: Sports and Empire

HL90DQ: Black Beauty Culture

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2018

Instructor: Jonathan Square
Meeting time: Wednesday, 12:00 - 2:00

Black Beauty CultureThe history of black beauty culture mirrors the complexities of both African and Afro-diasporic cultures. People of African descent have always used their African roots and their own artistic ingenuity to create styles and standards that reflect unique black cultures. Black beauty culture has also been in dialogue with other aesthetic traditions, most notably European and Eurocentric ... Read more about HL90DQ: Black Beauty Culture

HL90DP: Science, Exploration, and Empire in Nineteenth-Century America

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2018

Instructor: Reed Gochberg
Meeting time: Wednesday, 3:00 - 5:00

Science, Exploration, and EmpireThis seminar will consider the relationship between science, exploration, and empire in nineteenth-century American culture. Throughout the semester, we will discuss how expeditions to South America, the Pacific, and the Arctic played a major role in shaping ideas about nature and culture around the globe. Newspapers speculated about the mysterious fates of lost voyages; museums ... Read more about HL90DP: Science, Exploration, and Empire in Nineteenth-Century America

HL90DL: Global Hollywood

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2018

Instructor: Jordan Brower
Meeting time: Monday, 3:00 - 5:00

Global HollywoodThis course charts the development of the American film industry in the context of and in response to the pressures of world capitalism and the shaping forces of geopolitics. "Global Hollywood" begins with the "universal language" hypothesis, the belief among theorists and makers of early cinema that the silent movie functioned as a twentieth-century Esperanto; it proceeds to the problem ... Read more about HL90DL: Global Hollywood

HL90DF: Human Rights and Transitional Justice in Latin America

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2018

Instructor: Debbie Sharnak
Meeting time: Thursday, 3:00 - 5:00

Human Rights and Transitional JusticeThis course will examine the emergence of the twin phenomenon of human rights advocacy and transitional justice across Latin America, exploring the original debates and major players within the movement, a few of the larger case studies in the past three decades throughout the region, and the central issues now facing the field. We will examine how a human rights discourse ... Read more about HL90DF: Human Rights and Transitional Justice in Latin America

HL90L: Stories of Slavery and Freedom

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2018

Instructor: Tim McCarthy
Meeting time: Tuesday, 9:45 - 11:45

Stories of Slavery and FreedomIn the last generation, scholars have revolutionized our understanding of slavery and freedom in the modern Atlantic world. This sea-change has been the result of a major methodological shift: to view this history through the eyes of slaves rather than the eyes of masters. This course will examine the history of the "black Atlantic" through a diverse range of cultural texts--poetry, pamphlets, ... Read more about HL90L: Stories of Slavery and Freedom

HL90CX: Stop Making Sense: America in the 1980s

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2018

Instructor: Angela S. Allan
Meeting time: Wednesday, 9:45 - 11:45

Stop Making SenseThe 1980s saw the convergence of American politics and economics to strengthen U.S. interests abroad, but the decade was also a moment of enormous social, political, and economic divergence at home. How compatible—or causal—was the end of the cold war with the end of the American cultural consensus? Did such a consensus ever exist, or was it a mere illusion and nostalgia ... Read more about HL90CX: Stop Making Sense: America in the 1980s

HL90CV: Contemporary American Literature and Popular Music

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2018

Instructor: Alex W. Corey
Meeting time: Wednesday, 12:00 - 2:00

Contemporary MusicThis class examines the relationship between popular music, American literature, and the power structures that organize life in the United States. We will study the ways that music constructs social identities by considering how popular music—in performance, on record, and in written representation—can both reinforce and challenge hierarchies of gender, race, region, ... Read more about HL90CV: Contemporary American Literature and Popular Music

HL90CT: Deportation and the Policing of Migration in U.S. History

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2018

Instructor: Emily Pope-Obeda
Meeting time: Tuesday, 3:00 - 5:00

Deportation and the Policing of ImmigrationThis course examines the history of deportation in American society, and considers how the policing, exclusion, and expulsion of immigrant populations has shaped the nation. Through historical texts, primary sources, literature, and popular culture, we will cover a wide range of topics including racial quotas, guestworker expulsions, labor control, racialized health panics, ... Read more about HL90CT: Deportation and the Policing of Migration in U.S. History

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