Race and Gender
Race, Gender and Social Justice WGS 2250-62, Fall 2013Wednesday 7:00-9:40 am Hunziker Hall 202 | Professor Edward JankowskiDept. of Women and Gender StudiesE-mail: jankowskie@wpunj.eduOffice Hours: By appointment |
Course Description
This course analyzes multiple forms of social oppression and inequality based on race (and color), sex (and gender), sexual orientation (and identity), and class in the United States. It will examine systemic aspects of social oppression in different periods and contexts and the ways that systems of social oppression manifest themselves on individual, cultural, institutional and/or global levels thus becoming self-perpetuating but not wholly unaltered structures. Individual and group agency, strategies of resistance, and visions for change will also be studied.
Required Text
1. Race, Class, and Gender in the United States 9th Edition by Paula Rothenberg
2. The Men with the Pink Triangle: The True Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps by Heger (available on Amazon.com OR at Barnes & Noble).
Course Objectives
This course analyzes multiple forms of social oppression and inequality based on race (and color), sex (and gender), sexual orientation (and identity), and class in the United States. It will examine systemic aspects of social oppression in different periods and contexts and the ways that systems of social oppression manifest themselves on individual, cultural, institutional and/or global levels thus becoming self-perpetuating but not wholly unaltered structures. Individual and group agency, strategies of resistance, and visions for change will also be studied.
Student Learning Outcomes
University Core Curriculum Diversity and Justice (Area 4) SLOs:
After completing this course students will be able to:
* Distinguish issues of diversity (recognition of diversity) from those of equality as elements of a fair, just, and healthy society. * Identify historical and/or
Course Description
This course analyzes multiple forms of social oppression and inequality based on race (and color), sex (and gender), sexual orientation (and identity), and class in the United States. It will examine systemic aspects of social oppression in different periods and contexts and the ways that systems of social oppression manifest themselves on individual, cultural, institutional and/or global levels thus becoming self-perpetuating but not wholly unaltered structures. Individual and group agency, strategies of resistance, and visions for change will also be studied.
Required Text
1. Race, Class, and Gender in the United States 9th Edition by Paula Rothenberg
2. The Men with the Pink Triangle: The True Life-and-Death Story of Homosexuals in the Nazi Death Camps by Heger (available on Amazon.com OR at Barnes & Noble).
Course Objectives
This course analyzes multiple forms of social oppression and inequality based on race (and color), sex (and gender), sexual orientation (and identity), and class in the United States. It will examine systemic aspects of social oppression in different periods and contexts and the ways that systems of social oppression manifest themselves on individual, cultural, institutional and/or global levels thus becoming self-perpetuating but not wholly unaltered structures. Individual and group agency, strategies of resistance, and visions for change will also be studied.
Student Learning Outcomes
University Core Curriculum Diversity and Justice (Area 4) SLOs:
After completing this course students will be able to:
* Distinguish issues of diversity (recognition of diversity) from those of equality as elements of a fair, just, and healthy society. * Identify historical and/or