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Sept. 5 |
Introduction
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Sept. 10, 12 |
Questions: What is racism? |
Ashley Doane, "What is Racism? Racial Discourse and the Politics
of Race," Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for
the Study of Social Problems, Chicago, August 5-7, 1999.*
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Blackboard: Race and Me |
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Sept. 17, 19 |
Questions: What is race? |
Stephen Jay Gould, "Racial Geometry," in The Mismeasure of
Man, Revised ed. (New York: W. W. Norton, 1996).*
C. Loring Branch and George W. Gill, "Does Race Exist?" Nova
Online.*
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Sept. 24, 26 |
Comparisons: Caribbean and South African Conceptions of Race
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TBA |
Blackboard: Race, Racism, and Us |
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Oct. 1, 3 |
Inequality: The American Legacy |
Pohlmann, Black Politics, chapters 1-3.
Douglas A. Massey and Nancy A. Denton, American Apartheid:
Segregation and the Making of the Underclass (Cambridge: Harvard
University Press, 1994), chapter 25.*
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Oct. 8, 10 |
Inequality: Economic and Educational Effects |
Pohlmann, Black Politics, chapters 4-5.
Jonathan Kozol, Savage Inequalities: Children in American Schools
(New York: HarperCollins, 1992), chapter 3.*
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Oct. 15, 17 |
Inequality: Judicial, Electoral, and Legislative Effects
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Pohlmann, Black Politics, chapters 6-8. |
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Oct. 22, 24 |
Interlude: Perspectives on Black Life
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Midterm Exam |
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Oct. 29, 31 |
Inequality: Psychological and Cultural Effects |
Claude M. Steele, "Thin Ice: ‘Stereotype Threat’ and Black
College Students," Atlantic (August 1999).*
Pohlmann, Black Politics, chapters 9-10.
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Blackboard: Confronting Inequalities |
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Nov. 5, 7 |
Political Strategies: Washington and Dubois |
Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery in Three Negro
Classics, chapters 1-5, 10, 11, 13-15.
William E. B. Dubois, The Souls of Black Folk in Three Negro
Classics, The Forethought and chapters 1-3, 6, 9.
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Nov. 12, 14 |
Political Strategies: King and Malcolm X |
Martin Luther King, "Letter from Birmingham Jail" in The
Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr., ed. Clayborne Carson (New
York: Warner Books, 1998).*
———. "Where Do We Go From Here?" Annual Report
Delivered at the 11th Convention of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference, August 16, 1967, Atlanta, Georgia in A Call to
Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., ed.
Clayborne Carson and Kris Shepard (New York: IPM/Warner Books, 2001.)*
Malcolm X with the assistance of Alex Haley, The Autobiography of
Malcolm X.
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Nov. 19, 21 |
Comparisons: Race and Revolution |
TBA |
Blackboard: Strategies
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Nov. 26 |
Comparisons: Who has the best race relations in the world? |
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Group Class Presentation |
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Dec. 3, 5 |
Policy Solutions: Proportional Representation and Affirmative Action |
Robert Richie, Douglas Amy, and Frederick McBride. How Proportional
Representation Can Empower Minorities and the Poor. Originally published
as "New Means of
Political Empowerment: Proportional Voting," Poverty & Race
(November/December 2000).*
Stanley Fish, "Reverse Racism, or How the Pot Got to Call the
Kettle Black," Atlantic (November 1993).*
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Dec. 10, 12 |
Policy Solutions: Reparations |
Jack Hitt, Willie E. Gary, Alexander J. Pires, Richard F. Scruggs,
Dennis C. Sweet, "Making the Case for Racial Reparations," Harper’s
Magazine (November 2000).*
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