2008 Autumn Quarter

Course Description

The 2008 U.S. Presidential Election is unprecedented. The nomination process and ongoing campaigns have revealed the complexities of identity and its role in uniting and dividing the electorate. This course will explore how issues of race, class, faith and gender have shaped the candidates, campaigns, and our society. Our analysis spans the presidential race from the announcements of more than ten presidential hopefuls to the current competition between McCain and Obama.

Course will meet on five (5) Mondays between October 6 and November 14 from 7:00–9:00 p.m.
Specific course dates (details to be updated):

• October 6
• October 13
• October 20
• October 27
• November 10

Format

5 class meetings of 2 hours each. One introductory session, three panels and a closing session following the election. A 1 hour discussion section will meet 3 times following each of the panels (for students pursuing 2 or more units).

1 unit: Attend all sessions and write a brief (5 pages) reflective paper
2 units: Attend all sessions, 3 discussion sections, and write a reflective paper (5-7 pages)
3 units: Attend all sessions, 3 discussion sections, and write an integrated reflection paper (7-10 pages) following at least 10 hours engaged in political service

The series will also be free and open to the public.
Course registration is required for only undergraduate and graduate students.

2006 Autumn Quarter

CSRE/AFRICAAM10
Autumn Quarter 2006-07
Instructor: David Palumbo-Liu

Course Description

In December 2005, the U.S. House of Representatives passed an immigration reform bill that sought to transform millions of undocumented immigrants into criminal felons while authorizing the construction of a 700-mile wall along the Mexico-U.S. border. In the ensuing months, over a million immigrants and their supporters took to the streets in mass protests of unprecedented scale; immigration became the center of national controversy. Outside the U.S., long simmering discontent over national identities, rights, and injustices boiled over into demonstrations and violent outrage in France, the Netherlands, Australia, and other parts of the world. To understand the complex social, political, and economic forces that instigate the contemporary immigration debate, the faculty leadership of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE) has organized this one-time course to explore U.S. immigration history, politics, cultural discourse, and legislation, with an eye to their relationship to citizenship and global migration.

We invite undergraduate and graduate students to participate in this 1- or 3-unit (Pass/No Credit) course, organized around a Wednesday evening film screening and four Monday evening panel presentations involving CCSRE faculty and other nationally-renowned immigration experts.
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Course Requirements

1-unit:

• attend film screening and all four 2-hour panel presentations; and
• write a brief reflection-type paper (4 to 6 pages in length) that critically considers panel participants’ perspectives. No outside research will be required but students must choose one from a given set of essay questions to complete the writing assignment.

3-units:

• attend film screening and all four 2-hour panel presentations;
• write a reflection-type paper (10 pages in length) that critically considers panel participants’ perspectives; and
• attend and actively participate in four discussion sections.

Film Screening

Crossing Arizona
Oct. 4th, 7-10 PM, Jordan Hall, Main Quad, Bldg 420, Room 40

Moderator:

Monica McDermott, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Stanford University

Panelists:

Joseph Mathew, Co-Director/Producer of Crossing Arizona
Daniel DeVivo, Co-Director/Producer of Crossing Arizona
Amado Padilla, Professor of Education, Stanford University
Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano, Chair of Chicana/o Studies and Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Stanford University

For a movie synopsis, visit the official website at: http://www.crossingaz.com/

Panel Presentations

“Defining the Landscape: History and Politics of Immigration”
Oct. 9th, 7-9 PM, Braun Hall (Main Quad), Bldg 320, Room 105

Moderator:

Lawrence D. Bobo, Director of CCSRE and AAAS, Professor of Sociology

Panelists:

David Card, Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley
Luis Fraga, Associate Professor of Political Science, Stanford University
Mae Ngai, Professor of History, Columbia University

“Imagining Immigration: Metaphors, Images, Narratives”
Oct. 23th, 7-9 PM, Braun Hall (Main Quad), Bldg 320, Room 105

Moderator:

David Palumbo-Liu, Director of Undergraduate Program in Comparative Studies
in Race and Ethnicity and Professor of Comparative Literature

Panelists:

Claire Fox, Associate Professor of English, University of Iowa
Paula Moya, Associate Professor of English, Stanford University
Otto Santa Ana, Associate Professor of Chicana/o Studies, UCLA
Hazel Markus, Co-director of RICSRE and, Professor of Psychology,
Stanford University

“At the Border: Immigrants, Enforcers, and Advocates”
Oct. 30th, 7-9 PM, Braun Hall (Main Quad), Bldg 320, Room 105

Moderator:

Al Camarillo, Co-director of RICSRE and Professor of History, Stanford University

Panelist:

Daniel Groody, Assistant Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame

“Immigration: Is There a Problem? Is There a Solution?”
Nov. 13th, 7-9 PM, Braun Hall (Main Quad), Bldg 320, Rm 105

Moderator:

Michele Landis Dauber, Associate Professor, Stanford Law School, and
courtesy at Sociology

Panelists:

Alejandro Portes, Professor of Sociology, Princeton University
Jennifer Lee, Associate Professor of Sociology, UC Irvine
Jayashri Srikantiah, Associate Professor, Stanford University Law
Aristide Zolberg, Professor of Political Science, New School University

For additional course information, please contact us at ccsreinfo@stanford.edu.

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