topic 1 (jan 22- feb 7): war

books (2): Rogue States AND Acts of Aggression: Policing "Rogue" States both by Noam Chomsky

read at your own pace (BE READY to TALK about readings on MONDAY Jan 27!)

optional additional readings online
Rogue State, William Blum. Common Courage Press, 2000.
Imperial Alibis, Steven Shalom. South End Press, 1992.
"Starving Iraq:one humanitarian disaster we can stop", Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq, March, 1999
Come September" - Arundhati Roy
Noam Chomsky, "Terror and Just Response" (2 July, 2002)
Richard DuBoff, "Mirror Mirror on the Wall, Who's the Biggest Rogue of All?" (28 April, 2002)
Middle East Research and Information Project, "Primer on Palestinian Uprising"
Noam Chomsky on Colombia, "Democracy Enhancement"
Human Rights Watch, "Leave None to tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda" March 1999
Jihad Unspun

topic 2 (feb 10 - feb 28): culture (keeping it real)

book: Microphone Fiends, Andrew Ross & Tricia Rose, ed.

see our very own hip hop page

optional additional readings online
hip hop
explore the Hip Hop Congress
and Brown Pride Online
and blackpeopleloveus.com
grafitti site Art Crimes
Zulu Nation
other cultural issues:
The Lakota "Declaration of War against Exploiters of Lakota Spirituality"
site with information on Exploitation of Native Spirituality
Resolution against 'plastic medicine men' by elders
David Nicholson-Lord, "The Politics of Travel" The Nation, 8 October 1997.
Ka Lahui Hawai'i official website (read the FAQ)
United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People
background paper for the International Forum on Indigenous Tourism conference, held in Oaxaca Mexico March 18-20, 2002
Overseas Development Institute, page of resources on rethinking tourism
Chris Crass, "White Supremacy on my Mind: Learning to Undermine Racism"

small groups : F 2/21, F 2/28

paper due: F 2/28

topic 3 (march 3- march 28): crime: the politics of fear

book: Lockdown America, Christian Parenti

optional additional readings online
explore http://www.radiovolta.org/criminalinjusticelinks.html,
Eve Goldberg and Linda Evans, "The Prison Industrial Complex and the Global Economy"
Angela Y. Davis, "Masked Racism:Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex" Colorlines Fall 1998.
Angela Y. Davis, "Political Prisoners, Prisons, and Black Liberation" ANARCHIST BLACK CROSS Website
AngelaY. Davis, Cassandra Shaylor, "A Question of Control" San Francisco Chronicle, April 9, 2000
Cassandra Shaylor, Four Years in Solitary Confinement - San Francisco Chronicle, April 9, 2000
Silja J.A. Talvi, "Public Interest Law - An interview with Ellen Barry" - Z Mag Online, July 2000
Expose of US CIA role in crack supply. this San Jose Mercury News broke this story and this website collects those articles and other resources
Central Park jogger case: Dasun Allah, "Jogger Theories Defy the Realities of Reinvestigation" Village Voice December 11 - 17, 2002;

spring break is 3/10 - 3/14


discussion days: M 3/3, M 3/17, M 3/24

lectures: W 3/5, W 3/19, W 3/26

in-class film: F 3/7 Slam

small groups : F 3/21, F 3/28

paper due: F 3/28

topic 4 (march 31- april 18): race & poverty (just enough for the city)

book: Magical Urbanism, Mike Davis

optional additional readings online

Holly Sklar's "The Snake Oil of Scapegoating"
Marianne Bertrand (University of Chicago) and Sendhil Mullainathan (M.I.T.), "Are Emily and Brendan more Employable than Lakisha and Jamal?: A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination" (full article November 18, 2002), Associated Press news report printed in Boston Globe

D. Stanley Eitzen, Upward Mobility Through Sport? The myths and realities, ZMag March 1999
Jonathan Kozol, excerpt from Amazing Grace and more Kozol here
Institute for Research on Poverty, "Who was Poor in 2000?"
Christopher Cook , "From Welfare to Profit Shares Capitalizing on the "opportunity of a lifetime" ZMag, September, 1997
Urban Institute's National Report Card on Discrimination in America (recommended pages: 7-10, 32-38, 47-57, 69-88)
Randy Albelda, "What Welfare reform has Wrought"
Marc Cooper, "The Heartland's Raw Deal: How Meatpacking is Creating a New Immigration Underclass" The Nation 3 February, 1997.
Black Panther Party, "Black Panther Party Platform and Program", also known as the "10-point program", October 1966. for history see: The Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation, the Stanford University Black Panther Party Research Project,Sundiata Acoli's 1995 "Brief History of the Black Panther Party"
article on bilingual education
CSU's Affirmative Action policy

discussion days: M 3/31, M 4/7, M 4/14

lectures: W 4/2, W 4/9, W 4/16

in-class film: F4/4 The Making of a City: East Palo Alto

small groups : F 4/11, F 4/18

paper due: F 4/18

topic 5 (april 21 - may 9): the 511 year struggle against imperialism

book: Resource Rebels, Al Gedicks

optional additional readings online

Global Exchange's basic intro on IMF/WB
Sweatshop Watch Coalition
Arundhati Roy, speech at Lannan College, 18 September 2002.
National Labor Committee, brochure on sweatshops, Report on Bangladesh & Nike, report on Toy Industry in China
Food First, "Twelve Myths about Hunger" and "The Myth: Scarcity of Food"
Institute for Policy Studies, "Bearing the Burden The Impact of Global Financial Crisis on Workers and Alternative Agendas for the IMF and Other Institutions" Maude Barlow on Privatization of Water
Essential Action on IMF/WB & AIDS crisis
Njoki Njoroge Njehû of 50 Years is Enough, Congressional Testimony on Debt Relief for Africa part i & part ii
Njoki Njoroge Njehû, Testimony before Subcommittee on International Monetary Policy and Trade of the House Committee on Financial Services, Hearing on U.S. Policy toward the African Development Bank and African Development Fund, April 25, 2001
Global Trade Watch, Briefing on FTAA
Hemispheric Social Alliance, "Alternatives for the Americas"
Human Rights Watch, report on Labor Rights in NAFTA
Brian Dominick, "Thoughts on the Anti-capitalist Globalization Movement" 6.11.01 at Z Media Institute
Factsheet on the Ogoni people in Nigeria
Economic Policy Institute, "NAFTA AT SEVEN Its impact on workers in all three nations"

Why Protest?
Michael Albert, Why Protest the Conventions? (2000)
George Monbiot, "the Value of Protest" (5.9.98)

small groups : F 5/2

paper due: F 5/9