| 3/2 | gender and sexuality | Keyword: Gender. Bruce Burgett, and Glenn Hendler. 2020. Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Third Edition. Vol. 00011. NYU Press. EBSCOhost.

Plemons, Eric. The Look of a Woman: Facial Feminization Surgery and the Aims of Trans-Medicine. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017. (Read introduction) | | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 3/4 | Disability | Pick 2 out of 3

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (2018) Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

Clark, John Lee. N.d. “Against Access.” McSweeneys 64: The Audio Issue. https://audio.mcsweeneys.net/transcripts/against_access.html (Roughly 7 pages)

Robert Sparrow, “Defending Deaf Culture: The Case of Cochlear Implants,” Journal of Political Philosophy 13, no. 2 (2005): 135–152, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9760.2005.00217.x | | | 3/9 | Indigeneity | Pick 2 Tuck, Eve, and K. Wayne Yang. “Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor.” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 1, no. 1 (2012): 1–40.

Perley, Bernard C. “Zombie Linguistics: Experts, Endangered Languages and the Curse of Undead Voices.” Anthropological Forum 22, no. 2 (2012): 133–149. https://doi.org/10.1080/00664677.2012.694170.

Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding Sweetgrass. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2013. (30pages of your own choice)

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/sep/04/miriwoong-waniwoogeng-language-is-the-only-way-to-understand-our-ancient-culture | | | 3/11 | Midterm workshop | No readings! Come to class prepared to work on your midterm. | | | Spring Break | | | | | 3/23 | Week on School: School to Prison Pipeline | Documentary - Teach Us All | | | 3/25 | Week on School: School to Prison Pipeline | Documentary - Teach Us All; Lecture | | | 3/30 | Week on School:  Fixing School Food  or  One Laptop per Child | Poppendieck, Janet. 2010. Free for All: Fixing School Food in America, 133–60. Berkeley: University of California Press. Chapter: The Missing Millions: Problems of Participation.  OR  Chapter: Hunger in the Classroom: Problems of Access.

OR  Ames, Morgan G. The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019. | | | 4/1 | Async - Skylar Away for conference Forum Post for attendance | Poppendieck, Janet. 2010. Free for All: Fixing School Food in America, 133–60. Berkeley: University of California Press. Chapter: The Missing Millions: Problems of Participation.  OR  Chapter: Hunger in the Classroom: Problems of Access.

OR  Ames, Morgan G. The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019. | | | 4/6 | Week on Cities: Global cities | Robinson, Jennifer. 2005. “Introduction: Post-colonialising Urban Studies.” In Ordinary Cities: Between Modernity and Development, 1–12. London: Routledge. AND BMW Guggenheim Lab. 2011. Urbanology Online. BMW Guggenheim Lab website. Accessed January 19, 2026. https://www.bmwguggenheimlab.org/urbanology-online | | | 4/8 | Week on Science | Choose 2 out of 3 Emily Martin, “The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles”

SAPIENS. “Traditional Ecological Knowledge.”

SAPIENS. “weird Cultures and Human Nature” | | | 4/13 | Week on Science: Medical Science | Fadiman, Anne. "The spirit catches you and you fall down." | | | 4/15 | Week on Environment: Sacrifice Zone | Lerner, Steve. 2010. Sacrifice Zones: The Front Lines of Toxic Chemical Exposure in the United States. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Introduction and chapter on Green point, New York

Zee, Jerry. Continent in Dust: Experiments in a Chinese Weather System. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. | | | 4/20 | Final Project workshop | No readings! Come to class prepared to work on your final. | | | 4/22 | Week on Everyday: Social media | Steele, C. K. (2021). Black feminist pleasure on TikTok: An ode to Hurston’s “Characteristics of Negro Expression”. Women's Studies in Communication, 44(4), 463-469. Williams, Ruth. 2011. ‘Eat, Pray, Love: Producing the Female Neoliberal Spiritual Subject’, The Journal of Popular Culture, pp 1-21. | | | 4/27 | Week on Everyday: Food (and dumpster) | Giles, David Boarder. 2021. “Introduction: Of Waste, Cities, and Conspiracies.” In A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People: Food Not Bombs and the World-Class Waste of Global Cities, 1–20. New York: Duke University Press. | | | 4/29 | Week on Technology: Big Tech | Reena PATEL, “Off-Shoring Customer Service: A New Global Order,” in Working the Night Shift: Women in India’s Call Centers Industry. Henriksen, S. E., & Richey, L. A. (2022). Google’s Tech Philanthropy: Capitalism and Humanitarianism in the Digital Age. Public Anthropologist, 4(1), 21-50 | | | 5/6 | Week on Technology: GenAI | Chiang, Ted (2023). ChatGPT is a Blurry JPEG of the web. The New Yorker. Roberts, Sarah (2021). Your AI is Human. In Your Computer is On Fire eds Mullaney, Peters, Hicks, Philip. 51-67. recommended: Cave, S., & Dihal, K. (2021). AI Will Always Love You: Three Contradictions in Imaginings of Intimate Relations with Machines. In Minding the Future: Artificial Intelligence, Philosophical Visions and Science Fiction. 107-125. | | | 5/6 | Final Class: Thinking about the future | Keyword: Futurity. Bruce Burgett, and Glenn Hendler. 2020. Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Third Edition. Vol. 00011. NYU Press. EBSCOhost. Recommended: https://jiahuileeq.wixsite.com/clouds/project-description-1 Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene | | | College Make Up day | Final Project Office Hours | | | | Reading days and exam days | | | |