Gender, Race, and Consumerism in U.S. History

CANCELLED

Summer 2012 quarter

Faculty

Kristina Ackley Native American studies

Fields of Study

Native American studies, gender and women's studies and media studies

Description

This course will examine the ways that images and ideas are disseminated through American mass media. Particularly focusing on the late nineteenth and twentieth century, we will trace the ways the newly emergent national culture drew on dominant ideas about gender and race to shape social, political, and economic relationships. We will consider the ways people actively contest the commodification of the Other. Throughout, we will be tracing the ways gender and race hierarchies intertwine with sexual regimes to form a society with shared, though contested, rules and understandings.

Advertised Schedule

1-4p Tue/Thu (Jul. 31 - Aug. 30) plus two hours of online work in lieu of class

Location

Olympia

Online Learning

Hybrid Online Learning < 25% Delivered Online

Books

Greener Store

Offered During

Day

Program Revisions