Advanced Topics in Social and Cultural Analysis (303-0-1)
Topic
Black Studies, Native Studies, and Asian Settler
Instructors
Nitasha Tamar Sharma
847/467-6589
Crowe Hall 1-127
Professor Nitasha Sharma is Charles Deering Professor of Teaching Excellence and is Associate Professor of African American Studies, Asian American Studies, and Performance Studies. She is the author of Hip Hop Desis: South Asians, Blackness, and a Global Race Consciousness. She is writing an ethnography of Black people in her home place of Hawai‘i. She teaches courses on Black/Asian relations, Critical Mixed Race Studies, and Hip Hop.
Meeting Info
Parkes Hall 223: Wed 2:00PM - 4:50PM
Overview of class
This course examines the conversations between, within, and across Ethnic Studies and Native American and Indigenous Studies. What are the central paradigms of Black Studies, Native Studies, and Asian American Studies and how do they conceptualize relationships among race, indigeneity, diaspora, immigration, White supremacy, and settler colonialism? This course prioritizes writing that addresses these questions relationally through sections on Black and Native histories of exchange in the US, theories of Asian/Indigenous relationships and land, race and indigeneity in the Pacific, and current debates across Black and Native Studies and on the question of slavery, settler colonialism, and non-Black people of color in North America.
Learning Objectives
Students will become familiar with the scholarship that addresses central questions relationally through sections on Black and Native histories of exchange in the US, theories of Asian/Indigenous relationships and land, race and indigeneity in the Pacific, and current debates across Black and Native Studies and on the question of slavery, settler colonialism, and non-Black people of color in North America.
Students will understand the argument, method, and research of recent books that address these dynamics conceptualize relations, politics, and imagined futures.
Students will become equip to evaluate the various stances taken by scholars of Asian settler colonialism from the Pacific that disrupt binaries of White/Black; settler/native; Black/Indigenous.
Students will become familiarized with methods across Black Studies, Native Studies, and in Asian Settler Colonial Studies and come to understand their their central questions.
Students will be able to articulate how they can draw from existing research to better illuminate shared politics of liberation.
Class Materials (Required)
Course readings will all be available online. Books can be provided or purchased.
Class Notes
First class is mandatory. Undergraduates must speak to instructor before enrolling; for juniors and seniors only and by professor's admission since this is a graduate-level course. This is a combined undergraduate and graduate course—advanced undergraduates only.
Class Attributes
Social & Behavioral Sciences Distro Area