UNIT ONE PERFORMANCE IN AMERICA
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Week 1: August 28-30 | What is Performance?
Readings:
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Syllabus
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Schechner, Richard. “What is Performance?”
Wed Class Introduction.
Fri Lecture: What is Performance?
This week:
1.0 bCourse Module: Introduction Due on Thursday
Week 2: Sept 2-6 | What is America?
Readings:
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Taylor, Diana. “Remapping Genre through Performance:
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Scolieri, Paul. “On the Areíto,” in Dancing the New World.
Mon No class.
Wed Lecture: America, América. Contested Lands.
Fri Lecture: Whose America?
Recommended Readings:
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Colón, Cristóbal. (trans.) “Letter of Christopher Columbus on his first voyage to America 1492.”
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Martí, José. Nuestra América.
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Look Ahead for next week:
1.1 bCourse Module: Stuart Hall Video + Questions Due on Monday
Week 3: Sept 9-13 | Cultural Practice
Readings:
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Hall, Stuart. “What is Representation?”
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Hodge, Chinaka. Chasing Mehserle.
Mon Lecture: Do you Think that is Air that you are Breathing?
Wed Lecture: Mapping Place and Belonging in Chinaka Hodge’s Chasing Mehserle.
Fri Quiz/Performance Friday
UNIT TWO RACE IN AMERICA
Week 4: Sept 16-20 | Racial Formation
Readings:
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Omi, Michael and Howard Winant. “Racial Formation.”
Mon Lecture: Introduction to Race in America.
Wed Lecture: What is the Relationship between Race and Class?
Fri Walk Out for Climate Change
Look Ahead for next week:
2.0 bCourse Module: Video (Race: The Power of Illusion, Episode II) + Questions Due on Monday
Week 5: Sept 23-27 | Migration and the American Frontier
Readings:
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Acuña, Rodolfo Occupied America, Chapter 6.
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Fairbanks, Corine. “Burn Down the Mission.”
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Huerta, Jorge. Chapter One, “Mythos or Mitos,” Chicano Drama.
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Zinn, Howard. “We Take Nothing by Conquest, Thank God.”
Mon Lecture: From Sea to Shining Sea.
Wed Lecture: North American Borderlands
Fri Performance Friday.
Recommended Readings:
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Clarke, Dan E. “Manifest Destiny and the Pacific.”
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Gonzales, Rodolfo “Corky.” Poem: I am Joaquín.
Look Ahead for next week:
2.1 bCourse Module: Video (Race: The Power of Illusion, Episode III) + Questions Due on Monday
Week 6: Sept 30-Oct 4 | Whiteness in/as America
Required Reading:
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Baldwin, James. “On Being White…and Other Lies.”
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Dyer, Richard. “Introduction” to White.
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Huntington, Samuel. “The Hispanic Challenge.”
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Zangwill, Israel. The Melting Pot.
Mon Lecture: What is Whiteness in America?
Wed Lecture: Assimilation and Pluralism: Beyond the Melting Pot.
Fri Performance Friday.
Look Ahead for next week:
2.2 bCourse Module: Redlining the American Dream + Questions Due on Tuesday
Week 7: Oct 7-11 | What is Structural Racism?
Required Reading:
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Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo. “Rethinking Racism: Toward a Structural Interpretation.”
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Deavere Smith, Anna. Twilight, Los Angeles 1992.
Mon Lecture: Rethinking Racism in the Post-War: What is a Structural Interpretation?
Wed Lecture: Redlining the American Dream.
Fri Lecture: Twilight from the City of Angels.
Recommended Readings:
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Davis, Mike. “Fortress LA” from City of Quartz.
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Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun. excerpts.
Midterm Exam | Due Back in Lecture on Wednesday, October 16.
Required Viewing: Thurs-Sun Oct 17th-20th, Who Shot Miguelito? at Zellerbach Playhouse, Dir. Sean San José. Ticket information will be provided. See tdps.berkeley.edu.
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Week 8: Oct 14-18 | MIDTERM
Mon No class. Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
Wed Midterm Exam Due/Discussion.
Fri Final Project Training Session. Bring Laptop.
Look Ahead for next week:
3.0 bCourse Module: Site Set-up Due on Monday
UNIT THREE CONTESTED AMERICAS
Viewing (at Zellerbach Playhouse Oct 17-20):
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San José, Sean. Who Shot Miguelito?
Week 9: Oct 21-25 | Who Shot La Miguelito?
Mon Lecture: Critical Race Theory in Who Shot La Miguelito?
Wed Class Visit: Director Sean San José with Cast and Crew of Who Shot La Miguelito?
Fri Workshop: Developing Questions and Methods.
Look Ahead for next week:
3.1 bCourse Module: Questions and Methods Due on Monday
Week 10: Oct 28-Nov 1 | Angels in America
Reading:
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Kushner, Tony. Angels in America. Part One: Millennium Approaches.
Mon Lecture: Angels in America: Race and Queerness as the Millennium Approaches.
Wed Lecture: Angels in America: Scenes of Redemption, Utopianism and Disintegration.
Fri Workshop: Drafting Ideas from Evidence in Performance.
Look Ahead for next week:
3.2. bCourse Module: Performance Description + Gallery Due on Monday
Week 11: Nov 4-8 | Mother Road
Reading:
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Solis, Octavio. Mother Road.
Mon Lecture: From Steinbeck to Solis: Found Families Healing Places
Wed Lecture: “A southwest wind blow on ye.”
Fri Workshop: Curating the Visual Essay.
Look Ahead for next week:
3.3 bCourse Module: Website Draft is Due on Wednesday
UNIT FOUR PROCESS
Week 12: Nov 11-15 | America-América
Mon: No class
Wed: Lecture: América: Possibilities and Polemics.
Fri: Lecture/Discussion: New Imagination. Dawn.
Look Ahead for next week:
3.4 bCourse Module: Abstract + Cover is Due on Monday
Week 13: Nov 18-22 | Reflections
Mon: Group Work/Peer Reviews
Wed: Group Work/Peer Reviews
Fri: Group Work/Peer Reviews
Look Ahead for next week:
3.5 bCourse Module: Process Reflection is Due on Monday
Week 14: Nov 25-29 | Final Projects
Mon Student Presentations
Wed Break
Fri Break
Week 15: Dec 2-6 | Final Projects
Mon Student Presentations
Wed Student Presentations
Fri Student Performances
FINAL PROJECT DUE DECEMBER 16TH | DIGITAL ESSAY SITES