Week 1: Introductions, Classroom Agreement, Basic Concepts

Monday, August 30

For today, prepare:

• Read/Browse: 
  Facing History page about classroom contracting: https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/teaching-strategies/contracting

Wednesday, September 1

For today, prepare:

• Read (7 pages): 
  McGranahan, Carole. 2018. “Ethnography Beyond Method: The Importance of an Ethnographic Sensibility.” Sites: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies 15 (1). https://doi.org/10.11157/sites-id373.
• Read (10 pages): 
  Combahee River Collective. 2001. “‘The Combahee River Collective Statement’ (1977).” In Available Means: An Anthology of Women’s Rhetoric(s), edited by Joy Ritchie and Kate Ronald, 291–300. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.
• Read: 
  Cox, Aimee Meredith. 2018. “Afterword: Why Anthropology?” Hot Spots, Fieldsights, September 26. https://culanth.org/fieldsights/afterword-why-anthropology

• Watch (15 min): Preston, Ashlee Marie. 2018. “Effective Allyship: A Transgender Woman’s Take on Intersectionality” https://www.ted.com/talks/ashlee_marie_preston_effective_allyship_a_transgender_woman_s_take_on_intersectionality_jan_2018