Graduate

Exploration of interdisciplinary research methodology—a broader set of scientific beliefs, approaches, inquiries, theories, and analytics—relevant to the study of Black communities. Students read, explore, and engage in particular methods—approaches to data collection and analyses—emphasizing various forms of ethnographic research. Course also examines other approaches to the study of Blackness, such as historical/archival, cultural studies and discursive analyses, and mixed methods.

Explores "subaltern" narratives of diaspora exile in order to interrogate the condition of exile and its interwoven, often contradictory relations to many diasporic formations that endure in the 20th and 21st centuries. Students explore the various origins of diaspora and forms of exile emergent from chattel slavery, colonialism, war, racism, xenophobia, political dissidence, and dispossession, informing an understanding of these broader global machinations, and the experiences of those exiled and in diaspora themselves.

Considers theories of race, place, gender, and climate through the overlapping burgeoning fields of ecopoetics and ecoaesthetics. Reflects on how the environment, climate crises, and various ecologies inform contemporary experimental poetry, film, music, dance, visual art, performance, and community activism of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Exploration of interdisciplinary research and theoretical frameworks relevant to the study of the global black communities. Examines multiple theoretical approaches to the study of Blackness, drawing from a wide array of ethnographic, historical/archival, cultural studies and discursive analyses. Designed to help students develop a research tool kit, one that is rigorous, flexible, practical, ethical, grounded, and self-reflexive.

Critical examination of anti-colonial social movements, Indigenous thought and praxis, and the possibilities and limits of the concept of decolonization.

Examines a variety of theories and methods relevant to Indigenous studies through a sustained critical engagement with key concepts and salient themes and by tending to questions of power and resistance in the context of anti-colonial struggle and Indigenous resilience as exercised among communities across Turtle Island and Oceania, but also beyond.

Examines Indigenous environmentalist struggles and contemporary movements to protect land and water here in California and in Oceania. We look at three Indigenous-women-led movements to protect land and water: Run4Salmon, Sogorea Te Land Trust, and Protect Mauna Kea.

Explores the political and libidinal economic dimensions of the housing market and their relation as analytics to explain the development of the housing market over the 20th and 21st centuries. Explores the interdependence of political and libidinal factors in influencing the operation and management of housing markets from public and private entities. Course pays special attention to the role of race (in addition to other determinants of difference: gender, class, etc.) in structuring housing’s libidinal and political economies. Students cannot receive credit for this course and CRES 161.

Independent study and research under faculty supervision. Students submit petition to sponsoring agency. Enrollment is restricted to graduate students.