Philosophy, "Race" and Multiculturalism
Syllabus | Readings | Assignments | Handouts
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Readings
Class 4
Eamonn Callan - The Ethics of Assimilation
Class 5
Asante - Racism, Consciousness, and Afrocentricity
Class 6
Carter - The Black Table, the Empty Seat, and the Tie
Class 7
Guglielmo - ’No Color Barrier’: Italians, Race, and Power in the United States
Class 8
Waters - The Costs of a Costless Community
Class 9
Alcoff - Mestizo Identity
Class 10
Haney-López - Hispanics and the Shrinking White Majority
Class 11
Telles - Rethinking Brazilian Race Relations
Class 13
Hughes - Passing
Davis - The Hawaiian Alternative to the One-Drop Rule
Class 14
Obama - Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Chp. IV)
Arana - He’s Not Black
Class 15
Espiritu - Ethnicity and Panethnicity
Class 16
Liu - The Accidental Asian
Class 17
Bowen - Muslims and Citizens: France’s Headscarf Controversy
Amara - Those Who Wear the Headscarf
Bennhold - A Veil Closes France’s Door to Citizenship
Class 18
Sen - Religious Affiliations and Muslim History
Class 19
Frederickson - Mosaics and Melting Pots
Class 20
Parekh - Equality in a Multicultural Society
Class 25
Barry - The Dynamics of Identity: Assimilation, Acculturation, and Difference
Class 26
Waldron - Multiculturalism and Mélange
Assignments and Grades
Crediting Sources
Assignment 1 - Du Bois
Exam 1
Quiz Make-up Assignment
Final Exam - Part I
Handout 1 - Eamonn Callan - "The Ethics of Assimilation"
Handout 2 - T. Guglielmo - "'No Color Barrier': Italians, Race, and Power in the United States"
Handout 3 - Race, Ethnicity, Panethnicity
Handout 4 - Linda Martín Alcoff - "Mestizo Identity"
Handout 5 - Race and Hispanic Origin on the 2000 Census
Handout 6 - George Frederickson, "Mosaics and Melting Pots"
Handout 7 - Parekh, "Equality in a Multicultural Society" from Rethinking Multiculturalism
Handout 8 - Charles Taylor, "The Politics of Recognition" (sections I and II)
Handout 9 - Charles Taylor, "The Politics of Recognition" (sections IV, V [through p. 68])
Handout 10 - Barry / Waldron