Reserve Reading

Race (April 11 & 13)

• Henry Louis Gates, Jr., from "Writing 'Race' and the Difference It Makes" (required | pdf version [read pp. 1-15 only])
• Hazel Carby, "Race and the Academy" (required)
• Elizabeth Abel, "Black Writing, White Reading: Race and the Politics of Feminist Interpretation" (required)
• Barbara Christian, "The Race for Theory" (highly recommended)

Empire (April 18 & 20)

• Edward Said, excerpts from Orientialism and Culture and Imperialism (required)
• Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, from "Introduction: Reading Spivak" (required)
• Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, excerpts from "Can the Subaltern Speak?," "Questions of Multi-Culturalism," and "Subaltern Talk" (required) (N.B.: all three texts are contained in one document)
• Sara Suleri, "Woman Skin Deep: Feminism and the Postcolonial Condition" (recommended; click on "PDF Full Text")

• The Black Cultural Studies Site (moribund, but still valuable)
• Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Tomas Jaehn, Stanford U)
• Notes on Christian's "Race for Theory" (Mary Klages, U of Colorado) (AWOL)
• Louis Menand, "Patriot Games" (The New Yorker 17 May 2004): a profile of Samuel P. Huntington, prominent right-wing culture warrior who thinks that multiculturalists (and feminists and "deconstructionists") have driven the country to hell in a handbasket.

• Key Concepts in Postcolonial Studies (The Imperial Archive)
• Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin, Key Concepts in Post-Colonial Studies (ebook; HSU users only)
• Deepika Petraglia-Bahri's Postcolonial Studies site at Emory University includes pages devoted to Frantz Fanon and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (including key terms in Spivak's work), as well as glosses of such concepts as "essentialism" and "Orientalism."
  
  
• Orientalism, a website maintained by Jim Dexheimer of Western Michigan University
• Obituaries of Edward Said from NPR's All Things Considered and Weekend Edition
  
  
• "Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: An Overview" (Benjamin Graves, Postcolonial & Postimperial Literatures, National U of Singapore)
• Gayatri Spivak (B. Venkat Mani, Stanford U)
• Complete and near-complete PDF editions of the original version of "Can the Subaltern Speak" (for masochists)
• "Subaltern" (Wikipedia)
  
  
• Homi Bhabha (Glenn Worthey, Stanford U): includes bibliography, links, and excerpts from major works
• Lecture/Podcast, "On Global Memory: Thoughts on the Barbaric Transmission of Culture" (UC-Berkeley, April 18, 2008)