Course Syllabus
columbusday and the Christian History of Denial: columbusday as State Supported Hate Speech:
A Justice and Peace Studies Seminar
Tink Tinker, Instructor
Tuesdays, 1:00 to 4:30 pm, March 22 to May 24, 2016
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Overview and Objectives
BOOK LIST:
The following four books will be required reading:
Elise Bartosik-Velez, The Legacy of Christopher Columbus in the Americas: New Nations and a Transatlantic Discourse of Empire. Vanderbilt U. Press, 2014. This book is available via on-line library loan. EBSCO. Penrose: E112 .B294 2014eb
Ward Churchill, A Little Matter of Genocide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas, 1492 to the Present (City Lights Press, 1995). A classic piece of Churchill writing.
Steven Greenblatt, Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.This is the father of “new historicism.” A great (if somewhat dense) postcolonial read. Penrose: E121.G74.1991
Shari M. Huhndorf, Going Native: Indians in the American Cultural Imagination. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 2001. Penrose: E98.P99 H85 2001
Course Summary:
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