Instructor: Hoover (Fall 2008)

• Wed., Dec., 10: FINAL (2:00 PM)
• Tues., Dec., 9: REVIEW (4:00 PM)
  

 Previous Assignments

• Thurs., Dec., 4: Course Wrap-up
• Tues., Dec., 2: Read: Shelby, We Who Are Black
• Tues., Nov., 25: PAPER DUE
  
• Thurs., Nov., 20: Read: Phillips. Democracy and Difference
• Tues., Nov., 18: Read: Young, "Politics of Difference"
• Thurs., Nov.. 13: Read: Boggs, "Black Power: A Scientific Concept Whose Time Has Come" + Frye, "Some Reflections on Separatism
• Tues., Nov.. 11: Read: Sterba, "Racism and Sexism" + Steele: "Affirmative Action"
• Thurs., Nov., 6: EXAM
• Tues., Nov., 4: Finish Omi & Winant + Exam prep
• Thurs., Oct., 30: No class
  
• Tues., Oct.. 28: Omi and Winant, "Racial Formation"
• Thurs., Oct.. 23: Zack, The Ordinary Concept of Race"
• Tues., Oct.. 21: Kitcher, "Race, Ethnicity, Biology and Culture"
  
•  Mon., Oct.. 20:  PAPER DUE BY 5:00 PM
• Thurs., Oct.. 16:  Read handout on race [two articles]
• Thurs., Oct.. 9: Gilligan, "Women's Place in Man's Life Cycle
• Tues., Oct.. 7: Ortner, "Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture"
• Thurs., Oct.. 2:  Holmstrom, "Do Women Have a Distinct Nature?"
• Tues., Sept.. 30:  Kaplan & Rogers, "The Definition of Male and Female" + do short writing prompt (see Discussion and Questions)
• Thurs., Sept.. 25:  Fausto-Sterling, "How Many Sexes Are There?" and Angier, "New Debate over Surgery on Genitals"
• Tues., Sept.. 23: EXAM
• Thurs., Sept.. 18: REVIEW (no new reading)
• Tues., Sept.. 16:  Bartky, "Foucault, Femininity and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power
• Thurs., Sept.. 11:  Young, "Five Faces of Oppression"
• Tues., Sept.. 9:  Bartky, "Psychological Oppression"
• Thurs., Sept.. 4:  hooks, "Black Women: Shaping Feminist Theory"
• Tues., Sept.. 2:  McIntosh, "White Privilege and Male Privilege"
• Thurs., Aug. 28:  Frye, "Oppression"
• Tues., Aug. 26:  No assignment (First Class Day)