Winter 2005
Professor Peggy Pascoe
Office: 335 McKenzie Hall
Office Hours: 1:00-2:30 M, F
Office Phone and Voice Mail: 346-3406
E-mail: ppascoe@uoregon.edu
Class meets: 2:00-4:50 Wednesday, 375 McKenzie

This course is a graduate-level introduction to the scholarly study of race, gender, and sexuality designed to be of use to students in history, women's studies, ethnic studies, cultural studies, and related disciplines. We will begin with three units designed to introduce you to scholarly theories (one each on gender, sexuality, and race), and then devote the rest of our sessions to analyzing a series of specific historical topics.

Book List:

• Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor.
• Henry Yu, Thinking Orientals: Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in Modern America.
• Joanne Meyerowitz, How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States .
• Linda Gordon, The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction.
• Mae Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America.
• Laura Briggs, Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico.
• Mary Dudziak, Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy.
• Renee Romano, Race Mixing: Black-White Marriage in Postwar America.
• George Chauncey, Why Marriage?

All of the books should be available for purchase at the University of Oregon Bookstore; all the books and some of the articles we will be reading have also been placed on reserve in Knight Library. The rest of the articles are in electronic journals that can be accessed through the UO Library homepage.

Course Requirements:

The first requirement for this course (as for any other graduate colloquium) is to come to class prepared to discuss the weekly reading assignments.

In addition, I require:

• Regular in-class reports on the scholars whose books we will be reading in class.
  
• A 12-14 page written Synthetic Critical Essay evaluating a set of readings on a topic of your choice. Topic choices must be made and approved by me by Friday, February 11; first drafts are due in class on February 23; final papers are due on March 17. As in any graduate colloquium, your grade will depend largely on the quality of the critical paper you produce, so be sure to choose your topic carefully, listen closely to the class discussions we'll have about constructing these papers, and schedule lots of time for writing, revision and rewriting. As part of this assignment, each student will provide written critiques of the paper drafts of the other students.

Class Schedule and Reading Assignments:

January 5 : Introduction

Introductions
Outline of course goals and assignments
Selection of scholar reports
Notes and note-taking

January 12: Thinking about Gender

• Peggy Pascoe, "Gender." A Companion to American Thought, ed. Richard Fox and James Kloppenberg. Blackwell, 1995, pp. 272-275. (Handed out in Class).
• Joan W. Scott, "Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis." American Historical Review 91 (December 1986): 1053-1075. (EJ).
• "The Future of Women's History: Considering the State of U.S. Women's History." Journal of Women's History 15 (Spring 2003): 145-171. (EJ).
• Evelyn Nakano Glenn, Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor.
  

January 19: Thinking about Race

• Michael Omi and Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s. 2nd ed., pp. 53-91 (chapters on "Racial Formation" and "The Racial State.") (Reserve).
• Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, "African-American Women's History and the Metalanguage of Race." Signs 17 (Winter 1992): 251-274. Reprinted In Joan Wallach Scott, Feminism & History, pp. 183-208. (Reserve).
• George J. Sanchez, "Face the Nation: Race, Immigration, and the Rise of Nativism in Late Twentieth Century America." International Migration Review 31 (#4, 1997): 1009-1030. (Reserve).
• Henry Yu, Thinking Orientals: Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in Modern America.
  

January 26: Thinking about Sex

• Jeffrey Weeks, Sexuality. 2nd ed., pp. 11-40. (Reserve.)
• Margot Canaday, "Building a Straight State: Sexuality and Social Citizenship Under the 1944 G.I. Bill." Journal of American History 90 (#3, 2003): 935-957. (EJ).
• Adria Imada. "Hawaiians on Tour: Hula Circuits Through the American Empire," American Quarterly (#1, 2004): 111-149. (EJ).
• Joanne Meyerowitz, How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States .
  

February 2: The Discourse of Family

Initial Discussion of Paper Ideas

• Linda Gordon, The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction.
• Patricia Hill Collins, "Like One of the Family: Race, Ethnicity, and the Paradox of US National Identity." Ethnic and Racial Studies 24 (#1, 2001): 3-28. (EJ).
• Karen Leong, "A Distinct and Antagonistic Race': Constructions of Chinese Manhood in the Exclusionist Debates, 1869-1878." In Basso, ed., Across the Great Divide, 131-148. (Reserve).
• Laura Briggs, "Mother, Child, Race, Nation: The Visual Iconography of Rescue and The Politics of Transnational and Transracial Adoption." Gender and History 15 (#2, 2003): 179-200. (EJ).
  

February 9: Immigration

Paper Plans Must Be Approved by Friday, February 11

• Mae Ngai, Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America.
• Erika Lee, "Enforcing the Borders: Chinese Exclusion along the U.S. Borders with Canada and Mexico, 1882-1924." Journal of American History 89 (#1, 2002): 54-86. (EJ).
• Alexandra Minna Stern, "Buildings, Boundaries, and Blood: Medicalization and Nation-Building on the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1910-1930." Hispanic American Historical Review 79(# 1, 1999): 41- 81. (EJ).
• David G. Gutierrez, "Migration, Emergent Ethnicity, and the 'Third Space": The Shifting Politics of Nationalism in Greater Mexico." Journal of American History 86 (#2, 1999): 481-517. (EJ)
  

February 16: Systems of Sexual Control

• Laura Briggs, Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico.
• Estelle Freedman. "'Uncontrolled Desires': The Response to the Sexual Psychopath, 1920- 1960." Journal of American History 74, (#1, 1987): 83-106. (EJ).
• Danielle L. McGuire, "It Was like All of Us Had Been Raped': Sexual Violence, Community Mobilization, and the African American Freedom Struggle." Journal of American History, 91 (#3, Dec 2004): 906-931. (EJ).
• Eithne Luibheid, "'Looking Like a Lesbian'": The Organization of Sexual Monitoring at the United States-Mexican Border." Journal of the History of Sexuality 8 (#3, 1998): 477-506. Reprinted in Luibheid, Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border. (Reserve).
  

February 23: Cold War Racial Politics

Paper Drafts Due: Bring Copies to Class for Each Student and Instructor

• Mary Dudziak, Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy.
• Brenda Gayle Plummer, "Brown Babies: Race, Gender, and Policy after World War II." In Plummer, ed.. Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988, pp. 67-92. (Reserve).
• Kevin Gaines, "From Black Power to Civil Rights: Julian Mayfield and African American Expatriates in Nkrumah's Ghana, 1957-1966." In Christian G. Appy, ed., Cold War Constructions, pp. 257-270. (Reserve).
• Christina Klein, "Family Ties and Political Obligation: The Discourse of Adoption and the Cold War Commitment to Asia." In Christian G. Appy, ed., Cold War Constructions, pp. 35-66. (Reserve).

March 2: Interrracial Sex and Marriage

Paper Critiques Due

• Renee Romano, Race Mixing: Black-White Marriage in Postwar America.
• "AHR Forum: Amalgamation and Hypodescent: The Question of Ethnoracial Mixture in the History of the United States." American Historical Review 108 (#5, December 2003): 1362-1414. (EJ).
• Victor Jew, "'Chinese Demons': The Violent Articulation of Chinese Otherness and Interracial Sexuality in the Midwest, 1885-1889." Journal of Social History 37 (#2, 2003): 389-410. (EJ).
• Jane Dailey, "Sex, Segregation, and the Sacred after Brown." Journal of American History 91, (#1, 2004): 119-144. (EJ).
  

March 9: Marriage and the State

• George Chauncey, Why Marriage?
• Nancy F. Cott, "Giving Character to Our Whole Civil Polity: Marriage and the Public Order in the Late Nineteenth Century." In Linda K. Kerber et al, eds., U.S. History as Women's History: New Feminist Essays, pp., 107-121. (Reserve).
• Stephen Robertson, "Making Right a Girl's Ruin: Working-Class Legal Cultures and Forced Marriage in New York City, 1890-1950," Journal of American Studies 36 (#2, 2002): 199-230. (EJ).