Reading Schedule

This schedule is subject to revision.

Week 1 (January 9 – 13)

  • 1/09  Syllabus/Discussion of class expectations
  • 1/11 Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody Chapter One: It Takes a Village to Find a Phone (1-24) Optional: Alma Garcia “The Development of Chicana Feminist Discourse, 1970-1980”
  • 1/13  Alma Garcia, Chicana Feminist Thought “Introduction” (1-16)  “The Woman of La Raza” (29-31), “Our Feminist Heritage” (41-44), El Plan de AztlánFirst Blog Post Due 

Week 2 (January 16 – 20)

  • 1/16 MLK – Holiday
  • 1/18 Tessie Liu “Teaching the Differences Among Women from a Historical Perspective: Rethinking Race and Gender as Social Categories” (from Unequal Sisters 29-40), Alma Garcia, Chicana Feminist Thought,  “A Chicana Message” (35) “Empieza La Revolution Verdadera” (73), “Para Un Revolucionario” (74-75), “Viva La Chicana and All Brave Women of La Causa” (80-81).
  • 1/20 Estelle B. Freedman, “Race and the Politics of Identity in U.S. Feminism” (from Unequal Sisters 1-14), “La Chicana y ‘El Movimiento,'” (83-86), “La Femenista” (86-92) “¡Soy Chicana Primero!” (197-199). Optional: Here Comes Everybody – Chapter Two

Week 3 (January 23-January 27)

  • 1/23 Maylei Blackwell, ¡Chicana Power!  “Introduction” (1-13)
  • 1/25 Maylei Blackwell, ¡Chicana Power!  (14-42)
  • 1/27 Anna NietoGomez, “Chicana Print Culture and Chicana Studies: A Testimony to the Development of Chicana Feminist Culture” (from A Critical Reader: Chicana Feminisms, 90-96)

Week 4  (January 30 – February 3)

  • 1/30 Maylei Blackwell, ¡Chicana Power!  (43-90),
  •  2/1 Maylei Blackwell, ¡Chicana Power!  (91-132)
  • 2/3 Aida Hurtado, “An Invitation to Power: The Restructuring of Gender in the Political Movements of the 1960s” (From The Color of Privilege: Three Blasphemies on Race and Feminism 91-122), Marcela Christine Lucero-Trujillo, “Machismo Is Part of Our Culture,” “No More Cookies, Please”

Week 5 (February 6 – 10)

  • 2/6  Maylei Blackwell, ¡Chicana Power! (133-191) 
  • 2/8 Maylei Blackwell, ¡Chicana Power! (192-213), Elizabeth Martínez, “Chingón Politics Die Hard,” (From De Colores Means All of Us 172-181)
  • 2/10 Screening: A Crushing Love (please come to class 20 minutes early) Optional: Cynthia Griggs Fleming “‘More than a Lady:’ Ruby Doris Smith Robinson and Black Women’s Leadership in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee” (From Unequal Sisters 551-562)

Week 6 (February 13 – 17)

  • 2/13 Screening: A Crushing Love
  • 2/15 Lorna Dee Cervantes, “Beneath the Shadow of the Freeway,” “And, Yes…The Earth Did Part: On Splitting Chicana/o Subjectivity” (from Building With Our Hands, 34-56) Bernice Zamora, “Notes From a Chicana Coed.”
  • 2/17 Helena María Viramontes, “The Moths” (from The Moths and Other Stories, 27-32),  Cherríe Moraga, “Looking for the Insatiable Woman” (From Loving in the War Years, 142-150).

Week 7 (February 20 – 24)

  •  2/20 – 2/24 This Bridge Called My Back (Please have the entire text read through by 2/20 — we’re going to be moving around in it.)
  • 2/22 Optional: Nan Alamilla Boyd, “Bodies in Motion: Lesbian and Transexual Histories” (From Unequal Sisters, 15-28)
  • 2/24 Norma Alarcón, “The Theoretical Subjects of This Bridge Called My Back and Anglo-American Feminism” (From Making Face, Making Soul 356-369)

Spring Break – No Classes – February 27 – March 2

Week 8 (March 5 – 9)

  • 3/5 Gloria Anzaldúa, Borderlands (1-91)
  • 3/7 Catherine S Ramírez, “Crimes of Fashion: The Pachuca and Chicana Style Politics,” Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism Vol 2, No 2 (1-35), Dionna Espinoza, “Revolutionary Sisters”: Women’s Solidarity and Collective Identification among Chicana Brown Berets in East Los Angeles, 1967-1970
  • 3/9 Norma Alarcón, “Anzaldúa’s Frontera: Inscribing Gynetics,” (From Chicana Feminisms 354-369)

Week 9 (March 12 – 16)

  • Chela Sandoval, “Mestizaje as Method: Feminists-of-Color Challenge the Canon,” (From Living Chicana Theory 352-370)
  • Carla Trujillo, “La Virgen de Guadalupe and Her Reconstruction in Lesbian Desire,” (from Living Chicana Theory 189-213)
  • No Class

Week 10 (March 19 – 23)

  • 3/21 Laura Munter-Ora, “On Passing” (From Making Face, Making Soul 124-130), Gloria Anzaldúa, “En repport, In Opposition: Cobrando cuentas a las nuestra”(From Making Face, Making Soul, 142-148)
  • 3/23 Gloria Yamato, “Something About the Subject Makes It Hard to Name,” (From Making Face, Making Soul, 20-24), Carmen Morones, “Grace,” (From Making Face, Making Soul, 231-244),

Week 11 (March 26 – 30)

  • 3/26 – Emma Pérez, “Irigaray’s Female Symbolic in the Making of Chicana Lesbian Sitios y Lenguas (Sites and Discourses)” and Mónica Palacios “Tomboy” (both from Living Chicana Theory)
  • 3/26 – Midterm meeting
  • 3/28 – Midterm meeting

Week 12 (April 2 – 6)

  • Lorna Dee Cervantes, “Poem For The Young White Man Who Asked Me How I, An Intelligent Well-Read Person, Could Believe In The War Between The Races” (From Making Face, Making Soul 4-5), Trinh T. Minh-ha, “Commitment From the Mirror Writing Box” (From Making Face, Making Soul, 245-255)
  • 4/4  Easter Break – No Class
  • 4/6  Easter Break – No Class

Week 13 (April 9 – 13) – TBA

  • 4/09 Chela Sandoval, “After Bridge: Technologies of Crossing” (From this bridge we call home 21-26), Evelyn Alsultany, “Los Intersticios: Recasting Moving Selves” (From this bridge we call home 106-110), Jid Lee “The Cry-Smile Mask: A Korean American Woman’s System of Resistance” (From this bridge we call home 397-402).
  • 4/11 AnaLouise Keating, “Forging El Mundo Zurdo: Changing Ourselves, Changing the World” (From this bridge we call home 519-530), Gloria Anzaldúa,”Now Let Us Shift…the Path of Conocimiento…Inner Work, Public Acts” (From this bridge we call home 540-576)
  • 4/13 Cherríe Moraga, A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness (1-77) 

Week 14 (April 16 – 20)

  • 4/16 Cherríe Moraga, A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness (79-162)
  • 4/18 Cherríe Moraga, A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness (163-199)
  • No Class – Twitter CHST404 Meet-Up

Week 15 – Class Presentations

  • 4/23 Class Presentations *Research Paper Due*
  • 4/25 Class Presentations
  • 4/27 – Final class moved to my apartment at 5:00 pm for a potluck dinner.

Final Exam – May 2