Philosophy, "Race" and Multiculturalism
Syllabus | Readings | Assignments | Handouts
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
Rodríguez - Challenging Racial Hegemony: Puerto Ricans in the United States
Navarro - Black and Cuban: Bias in Two Worlds
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 Obama - Washington Post
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
Parekh - Equality in a Multicultural Society
Class 20
Frederickson - Mosaics and Melting Pots
Class 25
Barry - The Dynamics of Identity: Assimilation, Acculturation, and Difference
Class 26
Waldron - Multiculturalism and Mélange
FINAL EXAM, Part I: On Charles Taylor
Mid-term Exam
Du Bois Make Up Assignment
Handout 2 - Eamonn Callan - The Ethics of Assimilation
Handout 3 - Thomas Guglielmo - No Color Barrier
Handout 4 - Linda Martín Alcoff - Mestizo Identity
Handout 5 - Mixed Race Identifications On the U.S. Census
Handout 6 - Race, Ethnicity, Panethnicity
Handout 7 - Bhikhu Parekh - Equality in a Multicultural Society
Handout 8 - George Frederickson, “Mosaics and Melting Pots"
Handout 9 - Charles Taylor - The Politics of Recognition (Sections I and II)
Handout 10 - Barry’s Criticisms of Multiculturalism