ANG 6473 - U01 Diasporas, Migration, and Globalization
CLASS TIME
Tu 2:00PM - 4:45PM
OFFICE HOURS
THURSDAY
11AM – 2 PM
SIPA 330
CLASS ROOM
SCH. INTER.&PUBLIC AFFAIRS 503
INSTRUCTOR
Percy Hintzen
SIPA 330
Email:
Phintzen@fiu.
edu
Phone:
305-348-4419
DATES
08/20/2012 -
12/01/2012
Course Description
In class sessions we will examine the theoretics and conceptalization of "Diaspora" as they have developed over the last few decades and as they relate to the processes of transnational migration and globalization. Cultural Studies, and particularly the
“Birmingham School”. shall provide the analytical (though not the theoretical and conceptual) anchor and the lens through which diaspora will be engaged.
The purpose of the class is to examine how statist organization has rendered invisible global trans-territorial entanglements that are the true constitution of modern social formation. The focus of the course is on post-World War II intensification of global movements of people in the wake of the shift from colonial structures centered on Europe to post-colonial formations characterized by significant and increasing emplacement of populations from the Global South in northern metropoles, particularly the North Atlantic.
This has challenged statist discourse and pedagogy with its discursive roots in citizenship.
We will examine the theorizing of diaspora as a response to the exposure of citizenship and the citizen-self as a distortion of the entangled reality of modern social formation.
Diaspora, as the critical practices at the root of such theorization and of attempts at conceptualization, is examined as a critical practice of scholars engaged with the historical and contemporary emplaced presences of the “non-European” in spaces claimed exclusively by the modern European (universal) self (including the state).
In the final analysis, the objective of this course is critical engagement with modernity as philosophically-rooted pedagogy and the ideological distortion of modern social formation. The argument is that such distortion is being contested and challenged by the intensification of migratory flows in the wake of new forms of technology and geoeconomics developed particularly after the nine-eighties. These developments are reshaping our lives. The examination of diaspora and its conceptualization and theorization emerge out of these processes. While the course will not deal with these particularities, they nonetheless form the backdrop for new revelations of modern formations constituted by diaspora and engaged by diaspora theory as critical practice.

Required Readings
The main readings will focus on the books listed below and on selected book chapters, journal articles, and other archives that will be posted on the class website.
Aihwa Ong, Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality , Duke
University Press, 1999
Kobena Mercer: Welcome to the Jungle: New Positions in Black Cultural Studies .
Taylor and Francos 1994
Edwards, Brent H. The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation and the Rise of
Black Internationalism.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.
David Morley and Kuan-Hsing Chen (eds) Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural
Studies, London and New York. Routledge, 1996
Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness . Cambridge,
Mass: Harvard University Press, 1993.
Sunaina, Marr Maira. Desis in the House: Indian American Youth Culture in New
York City.
Temple, 2002
Hagan, Jacqueline Maria , Migration Miracle: Faith, Hope, and Meaning on the
Undocumented Journey , Harvard University Press; Illustrated Edition (November 30,
2008)
Other Readings will include inter alia :
Percy C. Hintzen
From Modernization to Globalization: Capitalism’s Reinscription or the Inexorable Road to Asymptote? In Peter Bloom and Stephan Meicher (eds ),
Revisiting Modernization , Bloomington, Indiana University Press (Forthcoming).
Percy C. Hintzen and Jean Rahier: Theorizing the African Diaspora: Metaphor,
Miscognition, and Self-Recognition . In Jean Muteba Rahier, Percy C. Hintzen, and
Felipe Smith (eds), Global Circuits of Blackness: Interrogating the African Diaspora.
Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illinois Press. 2010.
Andrea Queeley: Somos Negros Finos:Anglophone Caribbean Cultural Citizenship in
Revolutionary Cuba. In Jean Muteba Rahier, Percy C. Hintzen, and
Felipe Smith (eds), Global Circuits of Blackness: Interrogating the African Diaspora.
Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illinois Press. 2010.
Jacqueline Nassey Brown.
Diaspora and Desire: Gendering “Black America in Black
Liverpool”
In Kamari Clarke and Deborah Thomas, Globalization and Race. Duke
University Press, Durham, NC. And London. 2006.

I will assign substantive readings to each student for class presentation.
Course Requirements
Class Presentation
Class Participation
Final Paper
30%
20%
50%
Class Presentation:
Each student will be required to be the discussion leader for at least one class session focused on critical analysis of theory through empirical case studies. The course instructor will provide short case studies of diaspora to be analyzed and discussed. Each student will be required to read the case study being presented and to contribute to class discussion. Some case studies are already listed in the class schedule.
Final Paper
Using the theoretics and analytics derived from the course readings as well as other critical readings, each student will be required to write a paper, equivalent in length, substance, and style to those in major journals, that examines, exhaustively, some aspect of diaspora, migration and globalization. The focus of the paper must be centered on issues that relate to the course readings. The paper is due on Friday December 7 th in my office.
Each student will be required to meet with the class instructor in office hours or otherwise during the second and third week to discuss a title, topic, approach, and framework to be used for the final paper. Each student will be required to present an outline of her/his paper in class on November 20 th .
Class Structure
The class will be divided into student presentations and discussions followed by an overview and critical summary by the instructor. The latter will be organized in the form of a seminar discussion in which everyone is expected to be engaged. Each student will be expected to write a brief critical summary of the week’s readings, focusing not on regurgitation but on critical engagement and raising critical questions to be discussed in class. Every week one student will be given the responsibility of leading the discussion.
Each student will be required to circulate the summary to each other student in the class by 12 noon on the Monday before to the class meeting. A designated student will be the discussion leader for the second section of the class. This section will be dedicated to the application of the theoretical discussion and/or substantive issues of the assigned reading to an empirical case selected from a list provided by the instructor (the reading will be placed on the course website). Each student will be expected to participate in the general discussion that will be focused on the relationship among theory, conceptualization and analysis based on the substantive presentation. Students need to indicate, during the first

meeting, when they would like to do their presentations. Each student will serve as discussion leader for at least one substantive presentation and one week’s reading, both should be done on the same day.
Class Assignments
Aug. 21 st
.
Introduction to Class: Percy C. Hintzen
Reading: Percy C. Hintzen and Jean Rahier: Theorizing the African Diaspora: Metaphor,
Miscognition, and Self-Recognition . In Jean Muteba Rahier, Percy C. Hintzen, and
Felipe Smith (eds), Global Circuits of Blackness: Interrogating the African Diaspora.
Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illinois Press. 2010.
Aug. 28 th
Diaspora: Theory and Practice
Reading: Edwards, Brent H. The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation and the
Rise of Black Internationalism.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003.
Sept. 4 th
Diaspora: Against Statist Formation
Reading: Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness .
Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1993.
Sept 11 th
Diaspora: Contesting the Social Order of State and Citizenship
Reading: Aihwa Ong, Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality .
Duke University Press, 1999
Sept 18 th
. Diaspora and Critical Interpellations
Readings: Kobena Mercer: Welcome to the Jungle: New Positions in Black Cultural
Studies . Taylor and Francos 1994
Sept 25 th .
Diasporic Scholarship: Critical Interpellations and Critical Practice:
Rethinking Marxism
Reading: David Morley and Kuan-Hsing Chen (eds) Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in
Cultural Studies , London and New York. Routledge, 1996: Introduction and Part 1 :
Unsettling Accounts: Marxism and Cultural Studies (Chapters 1 – 5)
Andrea Queeley: Somos Negros Finos:Anglophone Caribbean Cultural Citizenship in
Revolutionary Cuba. In Jean Muteba Rahier, Percy C. Hintzen, and
Felipe Smith (eds), Global Circuits of Blackness: Interrogating the African Diaspora.
Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illinois Press. 2010.

Oct. 2 nd
Diaspora: Citizenship and Belonging: Engaging the Contradiction of Peoplehood and
Identity:
Reading: Sunaina, Marr Maira. Desis in the House: Indian American Youth Culture in NewYork City. Temple, 2002
Oct. 9 th
Diasporic Scholarship: Critical Theorizing against Modernist Discourse
Reading: David Morley and Kuan-Hsing Chen (eds) Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in
Cultural Studies , London and New York. Routledge, 1996: Part II: Postmodernism and
Cultural Studies: First Encounters. Chapters 6 – 10.
Percy C. Hintzen, Race and Diasporic Imaginings among West Indians in the San
Francisco Bay Area. In Jean Muteba Rahier, Percy C. Hintzen, and
Felipe Smith (eds), Global Circuits of Blackness: Interrogating the African Diaspora.
Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illinois Press. 2010.
Oct. 16 th
Race, Class, Gender, and Nation: Challenge and Response
Reading: David Morley and Kuan-Hsing Chen (eds) Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in
Cultural Studies , London and New York. Routledge, 1996. Part III: New Times:
Transformations and Transgressions.
Chapters 11 – 15.
Jacqueline Nassey Brown. Diaspora and Desire: Gendering “Black America in Black
Liverpool”
In Kamari Clarke and Deborah Thomas, Globalization and Race. Duke
University Press, Durham, NC. And London. 2006.
Oct. 23 rd
Migration, Alternative Authority and Contesting Statist Boundaries.
Reading: Hagan, Jacqueline Maria , Migration Miracle: Faith, Hope, and Meaning on the Undocumented Journey , Harvard University Press; Illustrated Edition (November
30, 2008)
Oct. 30 th
The Politics of Internationalization: Theorizing Critical Challenges to Coloniality and the
Modernist State
Reading: David Morley and Kuan-Hsing Chen (eds) Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in
Cultural Studies , London and New York. Routledge, 1996. Part IV: Critical
Postmodernism, cultural imperialism and postcolonial theory . Chapters 16 – 19.
Avtar Brah, Cartographies of Diaspora: Contesting Identities. Routledge. Oxford,
1996. Refiguring the ‘multi’: The politics of difference, commonality, and universalism.
Chapter 9.

Nov. 6 th
Diaspora and Identity
Reading: David Morley and Kuan-Hsing Chen (eds) Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in
Cultural Studies , London and New York. Routledge, 1996. Part V. Diasporic questions:
‘race’, ethnicity and identity.
Chapters 20 - 25.
Jean Muteba Rahier, The Ecuadorian Victories in the 2006 FIFA World Cup and the ideological biology of (non)citizenship. In Jean Muteba Rahier, Percy C. Hintzen, and
Felipe Smith (eds), Global Circuits of Blackness: Interrogating the African Diaspora.
Urbana, Chicago, and Springfield: University of Illinois Press. 2010. Ch 2.
Nov 13 th
.
Diaspora and Identity:
Reading: Stuart Hall, Cultural identity and diaspora. In Jonathan Rutherford
(ed .) Identity: Community, Culture, Difference : London Lawrence & Wishart pp.
222–37
Nov 20 th
Presentation of Paper Outlines
Nov. 27 th
General Class Discussion: What have we learned.
Dec. 7 th
Final Paper Due: SIPA 330