{"id":27567,"date":"2017-02-03T15:25:50","date_gmt":"2017-02-03T14:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=27567"},"modified":"2017-02-03T15:43:57","modified_gmt":"2017-02-03T14:43:57","slug":"transnational-dimensions-of-american-white-identities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=27567","title":{"rendered":"Transnational Dimensions of American White Identities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Course title:<\/strong>\u00a0Transnational Dimensions of American White Identities (A\/B, 19\/20 c.)
\n Instructor:\u00a0<\/strong>Dr. Catherine M. Eagan<\/span>
\n ECTS credits:<\/strong>\u00a06<\/span>
\n Language of instruction:\u00a0<\/strong>English<\/span>
\n Semester:<\/strong>\u00a0Summer 2017
\n Tue 13:15 \u2013 14:00, A 105
\n Thu 09:30 \u2013 11:00, A 105<\/span><\/p>\n

Status:<\/strong>\u00a0elective<\/span>
\n Form of instruction:\u00a0<\/strong>lecture (1 hour) + seminar (2 hours)<\/span>
\n Enrollment requirements:<\/strong> Enrollment in the English MA program. <\/span>
\n Course description:<\/strong>\u00a0This course will engage with whiteness studies and consider the intervention it has made into the study of race and ethnicity in American literature and culture. In the 1990s, the work of American labor historians focused a large segment of academia, including American Studies and literature scholars, on a question African-Americans had discussed for a long time: whether European Americans had a distinct racial identity that shaped their worldview and a distinct culture. Whiteness studies took as one of its founding principles the idea that European immigrants only \u201cbecame white\u201d in the crucible of white supremacist America. What Europeans were prior to their journey across the Atlantic has been more uncertain in this scholarship, but adopting a transnational perspective has helped some scholars see that Europeans did indeed have a relationship to a white racial identity prior to immigration, if it was not identical to the whiteness experienced in racially stratified America. This course will use the Irish as a case study but also delve into other examples of white racial formation\u2014Jewish, German, Slovak, Croat\u2014to show how European experiences of race and whiteness impacted American racial formations in similar and sometimes very different ways in the nineteenth century. The course will also address an absence in much of whiteness studies, the consideration of literature as a window into white racial affiliation. Only short excerpts of literature will be read, however, as this course will focus primarily on the theorization of what David Goldberg has called \u201cracist culture.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Course requirements:<\/strong>\u00a0Regular attendance; participation in class discussions; in-class and home assignments; continuous evaluation (a mid-term and final, mandatory for all students); seminar paper (10-12 double-spaced pages in 8th<\/sup> edition MLA style). It is essential to observe the deadlines set down for your readings and for particular assignments; if not, this can adversely affect your grade. Grade breakdown: tests (midterm and final)\u201430%; journal responses\u201410%; group discussion leading\u201410%; annotated bibliography\u201410%; seminar paper\u201440%.<\/span><\/p>\n

Syllabus\u00a0<\/strong>(subject to change)<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 1<\/u>: New Labor Historians and the \u201cBecame White\u201d Argument<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 2<\/u>: The African-American Case for Whiteness<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 3<\/u>: Skeptical Historians and Irish Studies Reactions<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 4<\/u>: Whiteness as a Presence, Despite Its Seeming Absence<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 5<\/u>: European Awareness of Race in Europe<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 6<\/u>: The Racialization of Difference<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 7<\/u>: The Case of Irish and Irish-American Literature<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 8<\/u>: Adjusting to Transnational Perspectives: Inbetweenness and Context<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 9<\/u>: Inbetweenness and Context Continued: Blackface Minstrelsy<\/span><\/p>\n

Weeks 10 & 11<\/u>: Defining Racial Affiliation: Irish-American Novel<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 12<\/u>: Dion Boucicault and the Limits of Conciliation: Popular Drama<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 13<\/u>: Sentimentalism and White Racial Consolidation: Irish-American Novel<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 14<\/u>: Central European Parallels and Contrasts<\/span><\/p>\n

Week 15<\/u>: Race, Whiteness, and European Interculturalism<\/span><\/p>\n

Primary Source Material (only small excerpts read)<\/u><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Dion Boucicault, The Colleen Bawn <\/em>(1860)<\/span><\/p>\n

Dion Boucicault, The Octoroon <\/em>(1859)<\/span><\/p>\n

John Boyce, Mary Lee<\/em> (1860)<\/span><\/p>\n

Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass<\/em> (1845) and excerpts from his correspondence<\/span><\/p>\n

Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby <\/em>(1925)<\/span><\/p>\n

Mary L. Meany\u2019s The Confessors of Connaught; or, The Tenants of a Lord Bishop<\/em> (1865).<\/span><\/p>\n

Fitz-James O\u2019Brien, \u201cWhat Was It? A Mystery\u201d (1859)<\/span><\/p>\n

Hugh Quigley, Profit and Loss<\/em> (1873)<\/span><\/p>\n

Mary Anne Sadlier, Old and New; or, Taste versus Fashion <\/em>(1868)<\/span><\/p>\n

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom\u2019s Cabin <\/em>(1852)<\/span><\/p>\n

Secondary readings (excerpted)<\/u><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Charles Fanning, The Irish Voice in America: 250 Years of Irish-American Fiction<\/em> (1999)<\/span><\/p>\n

Sander Gilman, On Blackness without Blacks: Essays on the Image of the Black in Germany<\/em> (1982)<\/span><\/p>\n

Eric Goldstein, The Price of Whiteness: Jews, Race, and American Identity<\/em> (2008)<\/span><\/p>\n

Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White <\/em>(1991)<\/span><\/p>\n

Russell Kazal, Becoming Old Stock: The Paradox of German-American Identity<\/em> (2004)<\/span><\/p>\n

Mary Louise Kete, Sentimental Collaborations: Mourning and Middle-Class Identity in Nineteenth-Century America<\/em> (2000)<\/span><\/p>\n

Eric Lott, Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class<\/em> (1993)<\/span>
\n Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination<\/em> (1992)<\/span><\/p>\n

Sin\u00e9ad Moynihan, \u201cOther People\u2019s Diasporas\u201d: Negotiating Race in Contemporary Irish and Irish American Culture<\/em> (2013)<\/span><\/p>\n

David Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness<\/em> (1991)<\/span><\/p>\n

Ann Laura Stoler, Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault\u2019s <\/em>History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things<\/em> (1995)<\/span><\/p>\n

Gloria Wekker, White Innocence: Paradigms of Colonialism and Race<\/em> (2016)<\/span><\/p>\n

Robert M. Zecker, Race and America\u2019s Immigrant Press: How the Slovaks Were Taught to Think Like White People<\/em> (2011)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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