American Studies | U.S. Movements and Institutions / Topic: Race and Labor from World War II to the Present
A201 | 18717 | Karen Inouye
(3 cr. hrs.) A & H
Instructor: Karen Inouye
Email: kinouye@indiana.edu
Office: Ballantine Hall 517
Tu/Th 1:00 - 2:15PM, Ballantine Hall 148
In this course, we will examine race and labor through the
experiences of a variety of groups, including Japanese American
internees, Mexican braceros, African American wartime industrial
workers, Latino “Zoot Suiters,” Victory Farm Volunteers, the Women’s
Land Army and Jamaican and Filipino farm workers. Examples of the
types of questions we will examine include: Are race and labor
defined differently during wartime? How so? What is the
relationship between race and labor? How are the lived experiences
and representations of these experiences both different and similar?