[Cohort39] Spring 298?

Fri Feb 8 12:06:14 PST 2019

Dear Jenna,

Thanks for meeting us yesterday! I am writing to you because I just
(foolishly) realized that the readings on the census are in Cohn's other
book "An Anthropologist among the historians and other essays". Do you
think it makes sense to update the list to that book instead of
"Colonialism and its Forms of Knowledge"? Both might be relevant, though.

Apologies for the confusion.

Thanks and best wishes,

Lala Rukh.

On Wed, Jan 30, 2019 at 12:55 PM Jennifer JOHNSON-HANKS <
johnsonhanks at berkeley.edu> wrote:

> Thanks, Payal, for the smart question—no, let’s just talk the first time.
> Jenna
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jan 30, 2019, at 11:04 AM, Payal Hathi <phathi at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
> Hi Jenna,
>
> Are there specific readings from this list that we should plan to read
> before our first meeting on the 7th?  Or will we talk through how to
> organize readings that day?
>
> Thanks and see you soon,
> Payal
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 8:57 PM Jennifer JOHNSON-HANKS <
> johnsonhanks at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
>> Excellent, Elizabeth!
>> Here are a couple of other things I thought of....
>> Scott, David. 1995. “Colonial Governmentality.” *Social Text*, no. 43:
>> 191–220.
>> Szreter, Simon, Hania Sholkamy, and A. Dharmalingam. 2004. *Categories
>> and Contexts: Anthropological and Historical Studies in Critical Demography*.
>> OUP Oxford.
>> Stoler, Ann Laura. 1995. *Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault’s
>> History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things*. Duke University
>> Press.
>>
>> And one I just found mucking around online:
>> RENWICK, C. (2016). EUGENICS, POPULATION RESEARCH, AND SOCIAL MOBILITY
>> STUDIES IN EARLY AND MID-TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITAIN. The Historical
>> Journal, 59(3), 845-867.
>>
>> So much fun ahead!
>> Jenna
>>
>>
>>
>> Jennifer Johnson-Hanks
>> Chair and Professor of Demography
>> Professor of Sociology
>> University of California Berkeley
>> http://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/jennifer-johnson-hanks
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 1:44 PM Elizabeth Breen <
>> elizabeth_breen at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Jenna,
>>>
>>> Sorry for the long delay in answering this email! I think the time you
>>> mentioned (Thursday afternoons starting 2/7) works well for most of us. We
>>> started a list of readings that might be applicable:
>>>
>>> Ordover, Nancy. *American eugenics: Race, queer anatomy, and the
>>> science of nationalism*. U of Minnesota Press, 2003. (Book)
>>>
>>> Bashford, Alison, and Philippa Levine, eds. *The Oxford handbook of the
>>> history of eugenics*. OUP USA, 2010. (Book)
>>>
>>> Greenhalgh, Susan. "The social construction of population science: An
>>> intellectual, institutional, and political history of twentieth-century
>>> demography." *Comparative studies in society and history* 38, no. 1
>>> (1996): 26-66.
>>>
>>> These next two came from the Alternative Reading List for Demography:
>>> <https://thealternativereadinglistproject.wordpress.com/demography/>
>>> Basu, K.M., (1997) ‘The ‘politicization’ of fertility to achieve non
>>> demographic objectives’, PS 5, 1, pp. 5-18
>>>
>>> Prewitt, K. (2013) ‘What Is Your Race? The Census and Our Flawed Efforts
>>> to Classify Americans’ Princeton University Press
>>>
>>> Looking forward to meeting with you next week!
>>> Thanks,
>>> Elizabeth
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 2:34 PM Jennifer JOHNSON-HANKS <
>>> johnsonhanks at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi All,
>>>> Welcome back to the semester! Sorry to be slow in coordinating. We
>>>> can't do the Wed time suggested because of Brown Bag, so it'll have to be
>>>> Thurs 2:30-4:30. I can do that many weeks, and in any case we won't meet
>>>> weekly. This isn't a formal class, just a reading and discussion group. I
>>>> have conflicts next week and the week after at that time (24th and 31st).
>>>> Shall we start at 2:30 pm on Thurs Feb 7th in my office? And before then
>>>> circulate ideas for readings?
>>>>
>>>> The question arose of whether fertility (220) will be offered soon. I
>>>> did it last year, and we normally aim for every third year, so under the
>>>> normal flow of things I would teach it again in 2020-21.
>>>>
>>>> Also on the table is the question of course control numbers--for that I
>>>> cc here Monique, who has the power of numbers.
>>>>
>>>> With best regards,
>>>> Jenna
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Jennifer Johnson-Hanks
>>>> Chair and Professor of Demography
>>>> Professor of Sociology
>>>> University of California Berkeley
>>>> http://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/jennifer-johnson-hanks
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 3:14 PM Elizabeth Breen <
>>>> elizabeth_breen at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Dear Jenna,
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks, we are excited to do this with you! We came up with two
>>>>> potential times:
>>>>> 11am-1pm Wednesday
>>>>> 2:30pm-4:30pm Thursday
>>>>> Would either of those work for you?
>>>>>
>>>>> As to the content, I think most of us are interested in reading and
>>>>> writing about colonialism/globalization/eugenics, as you said. There is
>>>>> interest in feminist demography and international perspectives on
>>>>> demography, as well. (If I missed something, fellow students, please speak
>>>>> up.)
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for doing this with us! Is there other information we can send
>>>>> you?
>>>>>
>>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>> Elizabeth
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Dec 27, 2018 at 4:36 PM Jennifer JOHNSON-HANKS <
>>>>> johnsonhanks at berkeley.edu> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi All,
>>>>>> Happy new year! For those of you doing 298 in the spring, let's set a
>>>>>> time? Depending on how many units you want/need, maybe we meet 2 hours
>>>>>> every other week (or more or less). Schedules? I think that most of you
>>>>>> want to work on something about 19th Century
>>>>>> Demography/Colonialism/Eugenics, but Vanessa wants a different topic,
>>>>>> right? Just let me know your plans and wishes when you get a chance. Thanks.
>>>>>> Jenna
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jennifer Johnson-Hanks
>>>>>> Chair and Professor of Demography
>>>>>> Professor of Sociology
>>>>>> University of California Berkeley
>>>>>> http://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/jennifer-johnson-hanks
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