HIST 5330

Seminar: Gender, Race, and Nation

This graduate seminar will explore the frameworks of gender, race, and nation as theoretical underpinnings of American history. This means we will consider how historians use these lenses to ask questions about American experience. The course is designed as a discussion-based, readings course, so that we may read in-depth and then, as a group, analyze the many different histories that constitute modern American experience. The readings are broad and comparative, so that we may examine how race, gender, and nation shift within and among different groups, states and nations. The readings also allow us to explore major themes such as economics, immigration, borders, imperialism, sexuality, identity and law

Units: 3.0