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Race and Gender in the U.S.
May. 29th, 2004 11:36 pmThis is what is known as a weekend intensive course. I take it from 9am to 9pm, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and then for one more day in a few weeks.
A lot of reading before and during the course is required, along with both in class projects and out of class projects.
But the book and course are both disturbing to me. While they both have Gender in the title, neither of them spends much time on gender, excpet as it is a part of the race/ethnicity issues!
The book bothers me in other ways, such as seeming to promulgate the very streotypes it claims to be dismissing!
It runs a chart on one page - and then, 8 pages later, as an asde, it mentions a major element of the chart, and moves on, without exploring consequences. It talks about Canada as if the author had not considered Canada on its own for years!
Ah well...
Good parts included the videos:
A Class Divided - the blue eye/brown eye experiment (which is mostly viewable/hearable on the PBS website)
The Shadow of Hate: A history of Intolerance in America - available through Teaching Tolerance
Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks - it had me close to tears. It is powerful and well done. It, too, is through Teaching Intolerance.
The Spirit of Crazy Horse - explains some of the current native american issues very effectively. There is even some hope built into it. This is from Frontline, as was A Class Divided.
The last movie I am going to recommend is not from this class - and I am not sure that you will be able to find it.
"What If?: President King
This pseudo-documentary is a review of the presidency of Martin Luther King, Jr. It is fascinating. It was on the Discovery Channel - not sure where one finds it.
A lot of reading before and during the course is required, along with both in class projects and out of class projects.
But the book and course are both disturbing to me. While they both have Gender in the title, neither of them spends much time on gender, excpet as it is a part of the race/ethnicity issues!
The book bothers me in other ways, such as seeming to promulgate the very streotypes it claims to be dismissing!
It runs a chart on one page - and then, 8 pages later, as an asde, it mentions a major element of the chart, and moves on, without exploring consequences. It talks about Canada as if the author had not considered Canada on its own for years!
Ah well...
Good parts included the videos:
A Class Divided - the blue eye/brown eye experiment (which is mostly viewable/hearable on the PBS website)
The Shadow of Hate: A history of Intolerance in America - available through Teaching Tolerance
Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks - it had me close to tears. It is powerful and well done. It, too, is through Teaching Intolerance.
The Spirit of Crazy Horse - explains some of the current native american issues very effectively. There is even some hope built into it. This is from Frontline, as was A Class Divided.
The last movie I am going to recommend is not from this class - and I am not sure that you will be able to find it.
"What If?: President King
This pseudo-documentary is a review of the presidency of Martin Luther King, Jr. It is fascinating. It was on the Discovery Channel - not sure where one finds it.
