York University

Department of Equity Studies

AP/MIST 4705 6.00 Critical Race, Diaspora and Indigenous Theory

Fall/Winter 2015-16

Tuesday, 4-7 p.m.

Ross S 104

Course Outline

Course Director: Dr. Bonita Lawrence

Office: 408 Atkinson

Phone number: 416-736-2100 ext.22334

Office Hours: Tuesday 11 am – 3 pm

E-mail:

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The course provides the theoretical foundations for the study of Indigenous theory, anti-racist and critical race theories. Students will study Indigenous theory, anti-colonial, anti-racist, and critical race theory and will develop analyses of processes of colonialism and racialization.

The first part of the course introduces students to a range of Indigenous theorists, addressing critical issues pertaining to struggles for decolonization and sovereignty. The second half of the course examines and critiques theories of race, and introduces students to anti-racist and critical race theorists. By the end of the course, students will have the theoretical tools to connect and compare Indigenous theory to anti-racist and critical race theories. Oral presentations, critical analysis papers, and class discussions will enable students to engage with the course materials.

This is a core course for the Honours Degree in the Race, Ethnicity and Indigeneity (REI) BA Program (renamed Multicultural and Indigenous Studies or MIST).

COURSE OBJECTIVES

1. To introduce you to Indigenous, anti-racist, and critical race theory.

2. To assist you in developing critical reading, thinking and writing skills.

3. To encourage you to develop your skills in presenting your ideas to small groups and large groups.

COURSE FORMAT:

The course will be conducted as a participatory seminar. There is a strong emphasis in the course on the discussion of weekly readings of 60 pages or more. Students will be expected to do the readings and be prepared to discuss them. Attendance and class participation will be considered as part of your final mark. Group work and in-class writing will be a part of the course requirement.

GRADING SCHEME

First Term:

Storytelling 10%

Verbal Critical Analysis Presentation 10%

Critical Analysis papers (on a different week’s readings (10% x 2) 20 %

Participation 10%

Second Term

Verbal Critical Analysis Presentation 10%

Critical Analysis papers (on different week’s readings (10% x 3) 30% Participation 10%

Required Texts:

1. Course kits, volume one (Fall term) and volume two (Winter term) are for sale at the York University bookstore. All articles listed below without a URL are in the course kit.

2. Articles accessible through York University electronic journals/books as listed below. All articles listed below with a URL are accessible through the York University e-catalogue.

FALL TERM 2015

SCHEDULE OF COURSE READINGS AND ASSIGNMENTS
September 15: Introduction

VERBAL CRITICAL ANALYSIS PRESENTATION WEEKS FOR FIRST AND SECOND TERM WILL BE SELECTED TODAY (ONE FOR EACH TERM)

September 22: What is Colonialism?

*Alfred, Taiaiake. Acknowledgements and First Words. In Wasáse: Indigenous Pathways of Action and Freedom, 13-38. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2005.

https://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/3113778

*Alfred, Taiaiake. Spaces We Occupy. Wasáse: Indigenous pathways of action and freedom, 126-161. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2005.

https://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/3113778

Loomba, Ania. Introduction and Defining the Terms. In Colonialism/Postcolonialism, 1-22. London and New York: Routledge, 2005.

https://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/2550751

September 29:

What is Settler Colonialism? Who is Indigenous?

*Corntassel, Jeff J. Who is Indigenous? Peoplehood and Ethnonationalist

Approaches to Rearticulating Indigenous Identities. Nationalism and Ethnic Politics Vol.9, No.1 (Spring 2003): 75-100.

https://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/muler2499

*Alfred, Taiaiake. Imperial Arrogances, The Other Side of Fear. In Wasáse: Indigenous Pathways of Action and Freedom, 101-125. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2005.

https://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/3113778

*Veracini, Lorenzo. Introduction, Chapter One: Population, and Population Economy and Settler Collective. In Settler Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview, by Lorenzo Veracini, 1-32. Houndmills, Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

https://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/2666567

October 6: Land

* Churchill, Ward. The Tragedy and the Travesty: The Subversion of Indigenous Sovereignty in North America. In Struggle for the Land: Indigenous Resistance to Genocide, Ecocide and Expropriation in Contemporary North America, 37-90. Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 1999.

*Lawrence, Bonita. Rewriting histories of the Land: Colonization and Indigenous Resistance in Eastern Canada. In Race, Space, and the Law: Unmapping a White Settler Society, edited by Sherene H. Razack, 21-46. Toronto: Between the Lines, 2002.

http://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/2516454

October 13: Theory and Indigenous Studies

* Simpson, Audra and Andrea Smith. Introduction. Theorizing Native Studies, edited by Simpson and Smith, 1-30. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2014. Course Kit.

*Smith, Andrea. Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy. GLOBAL DIALOGUE 12, 2 (Summer/Autumn 2010): 1-13.

https://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/muler769968

*Sunseri, Lina. Theorizing Nations and Nationalisms: From Modernist to Indigenous Perspectives. Being Again of One Mind: Oneida Women and the Struggle for Decolonization, 19-44. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2011.

https://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/3051234

First Critical Analysis Paper due.

October 20: Representation and Resistance

*LaRocque, Emma. 2010 Introduction: Representation and Resistance. When the Other is Me: Native Resistance Discourse 1850-1990, 3-36. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press.

http://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/2528246

*Valaskakis, Gail Guthrie: Rights and Warriors. In Indian Country: Essays on Contemporary Native Culture, 35-66. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2005.

https://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/3289494

* Alfred, Taiaiake. Rebellion of the Truth. In Wasáse: indigenous pathways of action and freedom, 39-100. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2005.

https://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/3113778

October 27: Resisting Genocide

*Valaskakis, Gail Guthrie: Living the Heritage of Lac du Flambeau: Traditionalism and Treaty Rights. In Indian Country: Essays on Contemporary Native Culture, 9-34. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2005.

https://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/3289494

*Patricia Monture. A Vicious Circle: Child Welfare and the First Nations. In Thunder in my Soul: A Mohawk Woman Speaks, 191-215. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 1995.

*Native Women's Assocation of Canada. What their stories tell us: research findings from the Sisters in Spirit initiative, i-ii, 1-45. Ohsweken, ON: Native Women's Association of Canada, 2010.

https://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/2469167

November 3: Revisioning Indigenous Identity:

*Valaskakis, Gail Guthrie. Blood Borders: Being Indian and Belonging. In Indian Country: Essays on Contemporary Native Culture, 211-254. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2005.

https://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/3289494

*Lawrence, Bonita. Legislating Identity: Colonialism, Land, And Indigenous Legacies. In The SAGE Handbook of Identities, edited by Margaret Wetherell and Chandra Talpade Mohanty, 508-525. Los Angeles; London: Sage Publications, 2010.
Altamirano-Jimenez, Isabel. The Colonization and Decolonization of Indigenous Diversity. In Lighting the Eighth Fire, edited by Leanne Simpson, 175-186. Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring, 2008.

November 10: Gender

*Martin-Hill, Dawn. She No Speaks and Other Colonial Constructs of “The Traditional Woman.” In Strong Woman Stories: Native Women and Community Survival, edited by Kim Anderson and Bonita Lawrence. Toronto: Sumach Press, 2003. 106-120.

https://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/3286837

Lawrence, Bonita. 2003. Gender, Race, and the Regulation of Native Identity in Canada and the United States: An Overview. Hypatia 18, 2: 3-31.

http://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/muler21237

*Sunseri, Lina. Women, Nation, and National Identity: Oneida Women Standing Up and Speaking About Matters of the Nation. In Being Again of One Mind: Oneida Women and the Struggle for Decolonization, 99-150. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2011.

https://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/3051234

November 17: Challenging “Recognition” and “Reconciliation”

*Alfred, Taiaiake. Indigenous Resurgence, Liberatory Fantasies, The Great Law of Change. In Wasáse: Indigenous pathways of action and freedom, 179-235. Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2005.

https://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/3113778

*Coulthard, Glen S. From Wards of the State to Subjects of Recognition? Marx, Indigenous Peoples, and the Politics of Dispossession in Denendeh. In Theorizing Native Studies, edited by Audra Simpson and Andrea Smith, 56-98. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2014.

https://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/3299499

*Coulthard, Glen S. Subjects of Empire: Indigenous Peoples and the ‘Politics of Recognition’ in Canada. Contemporary Political Theory 6, 4 (2007): 437-460.

https://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/1687880

November 24: Decolonization and Resistance

* LaRocque, Emma. Native Writers Reconstruct: Pushing the Paradigms and Decolonizing Postcolonials. When the Other is Me: Native Resistance Discourse 1850-1990, 146-170. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2010.

http://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/2528246

*Valaskakis, Gail Guthrie. Drumming the Past: Researching Indian Objects. In Indian Country: Essays on Contemporary Native Culture, 175-210. Waterloo: University of Waterloo Press, 2005.

https://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/3289494

*Alfred, Taiaiake. Old Roots into the Earth, Vigilant Consciousness, 236-286. In Wasáse: Indigenous pathways of action and freedom, 179-203.

https://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/3211473

December 1: Refusing the Gift

*Simpson, Audra. Indigenous Interruptions: Mohawk Nationhood, Citizenship, and the State, 1-35. In Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States. Duke University Press, 2013.

*Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake, with Edna Manitowabi. Theorizing Resurgence from within Nishnaabeg Thought, 279-293. In Centering Anishinaabeg Stories: Understanding the World Through Stories. Edited by Jill Doerfler, Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair and Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark. Michigan State University Press and University of Manitoba Press, 2013.

Second Critical Analysis Paper Due.

WINTER TERM 2016

SCHEDULE OF COURSE READINGS AND ASSIGNMENTS

January 5: W.E. B. Du Bois: “The Colour Line”

Du Bois, W.E.B. 2007. Introduction, The Forethought, Chapters: One, Two, Eight, Nine, Fourteen. The Souls of Black Folk. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

http://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/2293768

January 12: Theorizing Race

*Li, Peter. Race and Ethnicity. In Race and Ethnic Relations in Canada, second edition, 3-17. Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 1999.

https://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/2533208

*Miles, Robert. Apropos the Idea of ‘Race’…Again. Theories of Race and Racism, edited by Les Back and John Solomos. London and New York: Routledge, 2000. 125-143.

http://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/2298307

*Backhouse, Constance. Race Definition Run Amuck: ‘Slaying the Dragon of Eskimo Status’ in Re: Eskimos, 1939. In Colour Coded: A Legal History of Racism in Canada 1900-1950. Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, 1999, 18-55.

http://books2.scholarsportal.info.ezproxy.library.yorku.ca/viewdoc.html?id=/ebooks/ebooks2/utpress/2013-08-26/1/9781442687684#tabview=tab1


January 19: Theorizing Diaspora

Helly, Denise. Diaspora: History of an Idea. In Muslim Diaspora: Gender, Culture and Identity, edited by Haideh Moghissi, 3-22. New York: Routledge, 2006.

https://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/2304622

*Anthias, Floya. Evaluating `Diaspora': Beyond Ethnicity? Sociology 32, 3 (1998): 557-580.

https://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/38862

* Gomez, Michael A. Of Du Bois and Diaspora: The Challenge of African American Studies. Journal of Black Studies35,2 (2004): 175-194.

https://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/muler6584

January 26: Anti-Semitism and Race

* Jacobson, Matthew Frye. Looking Jewish, Seeing Jews. Whiteness of a different color: European immigrants and the alchemy of race, 171-200, 171-200, 307-311. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999.

https://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/1766019

* Kay/Kantrowitz, Melanie. “Jews in the U.S.: The Rising Costs ofWhiteness” in Names We Call Home: Autobiography on Racial Identity. 121-137. Becky Thompson and Sangeeta Tyagi, Editors. New York, London: Routledge, 1996.

*Reiter, Ester. Secular Yiddishkait: Left politics, culture and community. Labour/Le Travail 49 (2002): 121-146.

http://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/muler6430

First Critical Analysis Paper Due.

February 2: Anti-Racism

*Dei, George Sefa. Towards an Anti-Racism Discursive Framework. Power, Knowledge and Anti-Racism Education: A Critical Reader, edited by George Sefa Dei and Agnes Calliste, 23-40. Winnipeg: Fernwood, 2000.

https://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/3283286

*Thobani, Sunera. Race, Sovereignty and Empire: Theorizing the Camp, Theorizing Postmodernity, 280-319 in Theorizing Anti-Racism: Linkages in Marxism and Critical Race Theories. Abigail Bakan. and Enakshi Dua, Editors. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014.

http://web.a.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.library.yorku.ca/ehost/ebookviewer/ebook/bmxlYmtfXzkxNzAxMF9fQU41?nobk=y&sid=b5d73569-7b94-4f04-a531-75db1d33c157@sessionmgr4004&vid=2&format=EB&lpid=lp_143&rid=0

*Ng, Roxana. Garment Production in Canada: Social and Political Implications

Studies in Political Economy 79 (2007): 193-211

https://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/muler14054

February 9: Race, Gender and Feminist Theory

* Collins, Patricia Hill. Distinguishing Features of Black Feminist Thought. In Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment, second edition, 21-43. New York: Routledge, 2000.

http://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/2296862

* Bannerji, Himani. The Paradox of Diversity: The Construction of a Multicultural Canada and ‘Women of Colour’. In The Dark Side of the Nation: Essays on Multiculturalism, Nationalism and Gender, 15-61. Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2000.

https://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/3283370

Maracle, Lee. Racism, Sexism and Patriarchy. In Returning the Gaze: Essays on Racism, Feminism and Politics, 122-131. Himani Bannerji, Editor. Toronto: Sister Vision Press, 1993.

February 16: No class due to Reading Week.

READING WEEK: February 14-20

February 23: Critical Race Theory and Critical Legal Studies

* Monture, Patricia. Racing and Erasing: Law and Gender in White Settler Societies. In Race and Racism in 21st-Century Canada: Continuity, Complexity, and Change, edited by Sean P. Hier and B. Singh Bolaria, 197-216. Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press. 2007.

*Alexander-Floyd, Nikol G. Critical Race Black Feminism: A “Jurisprudence of Resistance" and the Transformation of the Academy. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture & Society 35 4 (2010): 810-820.

https://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/muler2592

Thornhill, Esmeralda M. A. So Seldom for Us, So Often Against Us: Blacks and Law in Canada. Journal of Black Studies 38, 3 (2008): 321-337.

https://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/muler6584

* Razack, Sherene H. 2008. ‘Your client has a profile’: Race in the Security Hearing. In Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims from Western Law and Politics, 25-58. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 25-58, 182-191.

https://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/3113779

Second Critical Analysis Paper Due

March 2: Intersectional and Interlocking Analyses

* Stasiulis, Daiva K. Feminist Intersectional Theorizing. In Inequality in Canada: A Reader on the Intersections of Gender, Race, and Class, edited by Valerie Zawilski and Cynthia Levine-Rasky, 36-62. Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2005.

* Fellows, Mary Louise and Razack, Sherene H. 1998. The Race to Innocence: Confronting Hierarchical Relations. The Journal of Gender, Race and Justice 1, 2 (1998): 335-352.

http://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/muler24537

* Batacharya, Sheila. Hootchies and Ladies: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and ‘Girl Violence’ in a Colonial White Settler Society. In Reena Virk: Critical Perspectives on a Canadian Murder, edited by Rajiva, Mythili and Sheila Batacharya, 35-81. Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press, 2010.

March 9: Cultural Studies

*Hall, Stuart. Race, Culture, and Communications: Looking Backward and Forward at Cultural Studies. Rethinking Marxism5, 1 (1992): 10-18.

https://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/852920

* Said, Edward W. Introduction. Orientalism, 1-28, 329-330. New York and Toronto: Random House, 1979.

* Park, Hijin. Being Canada's national citizen: difference and the economics of multicultural nationalism. Social Identities 17, 5 (2011): 643-663.

https://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/1189061

March 16: Critical Whiteness Studies

*Heron, Barbara. Challenging the Development Work(er) Narrative. In Desire for Development: Whiteness, Gender, and the Helping Imperative, 1-24. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier Press, 2007.

https://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/3284222

* Nestel, Sheryl. Midwifery Tourism. In Obstructed Labour: Race and Gender in the Re-Emergence of Midwifery, 69-83. Vancouver and Toronto: UBC Press, 2006.

https://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/3288122

March 23: Indigenous Theory and Critical Race Theory

*Lawrence, Bonita, and Enakshi Dua. Decolonizing Antiracism. Social Justice 32, 4 (2005):120-143.

https://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/muler21657