English 878-001
Seminar in Feminist Critical Theory: Cultural Diversity, Multiculturalism and Globalization: Gendered Debates
Instr: Sangari, Kumkum
Office: CRT 396; 229-2420
e-mail: ksangari@uwm.edu
Office hours: TBA
Course Information: W; 1:00-3:40pm; CRT 286
Course Description
Is cultural diversity synonymous with multiculturalism? What produces cultural diversity? This course works towards a critique of multiculturalism based on exclusivist, primordial and normative notions of culture, religion and race. It will explore the feminist debate on multiculturalism, try to disentangle market-centered notions of multiculturalism, and work towards a different understanding of diversity in both national and transnational arenas. It will focus on modes of exclusion and containment as well as on social and economic processes of diversification through a discussion of caste, class, religion, race, labor, market, migration, nation, state and patriarchies. The course sets out to explore and understand the social processes that have produced as well as suppressed diversity within old colonial and new global regimes.
