Revised Schedule of Assignments

[R] = course reader

What is Transnationalism?

Thu Jan 28 Course Introduction

Tue Feb 2 Gruesz, “America” [R]; Kempadoo, “Baywatch and de Preacher” [R]

Thu Feb 4 Steger, Globalization chs. 1 and 2

Tue Feb 9 Steger, Globalization chs. 3 and 5

TN 1.0: The Pre-National Americas

Thu Feb 11 Smith, “Generall Historie of Virginia…” [R]

Tue Feb 16 Cabeza de Vaca, “The Relation…” [R]

Thu Feb 18 no class

Tue Feb 23 Presentation on Hubert Harrison, BC library

Thu Feb 25 Fernández-Armesto, The Americas chs 1, 3, 4

Tue Mar 2 Fernández-Armesto, The Americas, ch 5

Thu Mar 4 Brickhouse, “Hemispheric Jamestown” [R]

TN 2.0: The Progressive Era

Tue Mar 9 Essay 1 due; Roosevelt, “The Strenuous Life,” “The Administration of the Island Possessions” [R]

Thu Mar 11 Streeby, “Empire” [R]; Roosevelt, “The Expansion of the White Races” [R]; Twain, “To the Person Sitting in Darkness” [R]

Tue Mar 16 Martí, “Our America,” “Coney Island” [R]

Thu Mar 18 Bourne, “Trans-national America” [R]

Tue Mar 23 Rydell, excerpt from All the World’s a Fair [R]

TN 3.0: U.S. Civil Rights and the Anti-Colonial Movement

Thu Mar 25 in-class: When We Were Kings (film)

Spring Break: no class Tue Mar 30 or Thu Apr 1

Thu Apr 8 Essay 2 due. Farred, “Mohammed Ali, Third World Contender,” [R] and When We Were Kings (cont’d.)

Tue Apr 13 Farred and When We Were Kings (cont’d.)

Thu Apr 15 Baldwin, “Encounter on the Seine,” “Stranger in the Village” [R]

TN 4.1: Diaspora is the New Immigration: the Case of Latina/o America

Tue Apr 20 Davis, “Transnational Suburbs” [R]

Thu Apr 22 Diaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Tue Apr 27 The Brief Wondrous Life (cont’d.)

Thu Apr 29 The Brief Wondrous Life (cont’d.)

Tue May 4 The Brief Wondrous Life (cont’d.)

TN 4.2: Post-National America

Thu May 6 Essay 3 due. Initial meeting of groups

Tue May 11 Meet in groups

Thu May 13 Meet in groups

Tue May 18 Responses to document/article pairing are due

Group Projects are due Tue May 25: Presentations 1-3 p.m.