Lecture Notes and Readings | Passing: Flexibility in Race and Gender | Experimental Study Group

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Course lectures and readings.
WEEK #	Lecture notes	READINGS
1	Racial passing (PDF) (Courtesy of Rachel Dillon.)	Craft, William, and Ellen Craft. Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom. Atlanta, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780820321042. [Read the book online]
2	Interplay between race, gender, class, and literacy	Continue with Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom.
3	Interplay between race, gender, class, and literacy (cont.) (PDF)	Continue with Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom. Taylor, Edward. "A Primer on Critical Race Theory." The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education 19 (1998): 122-124. McCaskill, Barbara. "Yours Very Truly: Ellen Craft-The Fugitive as Text and Artifact." African American Review (Winter 1994).
4	Discussion about Incognegro (PDF) Special Guest: Zanele Muholi	Johnson, Mat, and Warren Pierce. Incognegro. New York, NY: Vertigo, 2008. ISBN: 9781401210977.
5	Gender theory (PDF)	Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction. New York, NY: Vintage Press, 1990. ISBN: 9780679724698. Hackney, James R., Jr. "Review: Derrick Bell's Re-Sounding: W.E.B. DuBois, Modernism, and Critical Race Scholarship." Law and Social Inquiry 23, no. 1 (1998): 141-164. Butler, Judith. "Peformative Acts and Gender Constitution: An Essay in Phenomenology and Feminist Theory." (1988). (PDF)
6	Transgender issues (PDF)	Raymond, Janice. The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male. New York, NY: Teachers College Press, 1994. ISBN: 9780807762721.
7	Nella Larsen's Passing (PDF)	Larsen, Nella. Passing. New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Co., 2007. ISBN: 9780393979169. [Preview in Google Books]
8	Doris Grumbach's Chamber Music	Grumbach, Doris. Chamber Music. Wainscott, New York, NY: Pushcart Press, 2008. ISBN: 9781888889536.
9	Transsexuality and the medical community (PDF) (Courtesy of Rachel Dillon.)	Serano, Julia. Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity. Berkeley, CA: Seal Press, 2007. ISBN: 9781580051545. pp. 23-64. Prosser, Jay. Second Skins. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780231109345. Chapter 2. Califia, Patrick. "Transsexual Autobiography." In Sex Changes: Transgender Politics. San Francisco, CA: Cleis Press, 2003. ISBN: 9781573441805.
10	Essays from Nobody Passes (PDF)	Sycamore, Matt Bernstein. Nobody Passes: Rejecting the Rules of Gender and Conformity. Berkeley, CA: Seal Press, 2006. ISBN: 9781580051842.
11	Nobody Passes (cont.) (PDF)	Comeau, Joey. Lockpick Pornography. Vancouver, BC: Loose Teeth Press, 2008.
12	Nobody Passes (cont.) (PDF)
13	Student presentations (See Projects section)