Jan 31  M       Introduction.  Diego Velázquez's Las meninas.  (WCC 231)

Patrick Duffey's unit: 

February

2  W                Unit introduction in small group (AD 204)
                        Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986), "The Analytical Language of John Wilkins"       
                        Reading: http://www.alamut.com/subj/artiface/language/johnWilkins.html
                        Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616), "Sancho and Ricote" Part II, Chapter 54, The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha;    
                        Reading: http://erasmus.austincollege.edu/duffey/hwc55/reading1.html 

4   F                 Video, Carlos Fuentes's The Buried Mirror  (AD 204)

7  M                Quixote: "Mambrino's Helmet" (I: 21, 25, 44-46)
                       http://erasmus.austincollege.edu/duffey/hwc55/reading2.html; and "Barcelona" (II, 59).
                       http://erasmus.austincollege.edu/duffey/hwc55/reading3.html

9  W        V.S. Naipaul (1932), Loss of Eldorado (11-69) (E-R)

11   F   El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539-1616), The Royal Commentaries (E-R).

14   M   D.F.Sarmiento (1811-1888), Facundo (1845) (E-R)

25  F  The Lost Steps,  pp. 239-278.  Mario Vargas Llosa (b. 1936), The Storyteller (1987), beginning to p. 36.

28  M  The Storyteller, pp. 70-108; 146-188.

March

2 W  The Storyteller, pp. 235-246.

4   F  Patrick Duffey's unit exam

Rod Stewart's Unit

7  M             Masters, slaves, barbarians and freaks
                           
                        Electronic-reserve (E-R), Aristotle

9  W                Just war theory:

-- Requerimiento,  http://www.dickinson.edu/~borges/Resources-Requerimiento.htm

-- Papal decree Inter Caetera, http://www.nativeweb.org/pages/legal/indig-inter-caetera.html

-- E-R: Sepúlveda & Vitoria

11  F        17^th century dissenters:

-- E-R: Sor Juana, "Reply to Sor Philothea","Hombres necios"

-- E-R: Jovita González, "Shades of the 10^th Muses"; *video, I, the Worst of All
 

Background: http://www.dartmouth.edu/~sorjuana/Chronology.html

http://www.wsu.edu:8001/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/cruz.html

14  M                Locke, the Enlightenment and the Social Contract, 2^nd Treatise

 http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1651-1700/locke/ECCG/governxx.htm

(Chapters 1-5, Chapter 9; paragraphs 175-176 and 196 from Chapter 16, and then paragraphs 222, 240-242 from Chapter 19 will be sent as an email attachment)

16  W            U. S. Enlightenment & the "Sexual Contract"

             E-R: Ben Franklin; Ann Firor-Scott, "Three Portraits"

18  F             Chattel Slavery and the "Racial Contract" in 19^th century U.S.

             -- Frederick Douglass, http://www.alternet.org/story/16324

             E-R:  Angelina Grimké; Deborah White

 -- Thomas Jefferson, http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/P/tj3/writings/slavery.html
For more background: see articles, "Slavery," and "Slave Trade," in Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History (Abell Library Reference section)

28  M          The Social Contract Re-visited

             E-R: J.S. Mill on tyranny of the majority

                     Roger Hatch "American Racism"

                     Bill Lawson on fixed minorities

30  W          Is Race Real?

            E-R: Langston Hughes, "Passing"

                    Sharon Begley, "Three is not enough"

                    Charles Mills, "But what are you really?..."

1  F            Just War & North American Indians

-- Justice Marshall, http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/D/1801-1825/marshallcases/mar03.htm

            -- E-R: Ward Churchill/Glenn Morris, "Key Indian Laws..."/International Law and ..."

           Sagoyewatha, "Speeches"

4   M            Selected stories from Sherman Alexie

6  W              Selected stories from Sherman Alexie

April

8   F              Rod Stewart's unit exam

Terry Hoops's unit

11   M            video:  Apu Condor:  the battle between the bull and the condor

13  W            O”Gorman:  The Invention of America.  (on e-reserve)

                                Capitulaciones

15  F              Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala: Crónica y Buen Gobierno

                                e-reserve

18  M            Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala: Crónica y Buen Gobierno

                                e-reserve

20  W           Hoops:  The Case of the False Inca

e-reserve

22  F              Taussig:  Space of Death, Culture of Terror

                                Todorov:  Love (selections)

                                (both on e-reserve)

25  M            Anderson:  Imagined Communities (Introduction) (e-reserve)

                                Universal Declaration of Human Rights (on the web)

                                Declaration of Independence (selection)

                                Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Property (selection)

27  W         Mariátegui: Regarding Religion (on e-reserve)

                    Grillo Fernández:  The Ayllu (on e-reserve)

29  F            Menchú:  I, Rigoberta… (selection)

May

2  M            Menchú:  I, Rigoberta… (selection)

4  W            Arias:  selected chapters (e-reserve)

6  F              Terry Hoops's unit exam

9  Connections, evaluations (WCC 231)