Race and Racism
Syllabus | Readings | Assignments | Handouts
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The Idea of Race; Do Races Exist?
Roberts - Redefining Race in Genetic Terms
Latinos and Race
Alcoff - Is Latino/a Identity a Racial Identity?
Racial Discrimination
Bertrand/Mullainathan - Are Emily and Greg More Employable than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination
Kelly - Race and Racial Cognition
Ford - The Race Card
Race and Punishment: Racial Perceptions of Crime and Support for Punitive Policies
Lever - What’s Wrong with Racial Profiling?
Another Look at the Problem
The Legacy of Discrimination
Oliver/Shapiro - Black Wealth/White Wealth
NRC - Cumulative Disadvantage and Racial Discrimination
White Supremacy and the Different Forms of Race-Based Regimes
Mills - Revisionist Ontologies: Theorizing White Supremacy
Asians Between Black and White: Outsiders and the "Model Minority Stereotype"
Wu - The Model Minority: Asian American ‘Success’ as a Race Relations Failure
The Reparations Controversy
D'Souza - The Reparations Fallacy: What African-Americans Owe America
McCarthy - Coming to Terms With Our Past, Part II: On the Morality and Politics of Reparations for Slavery
Arthur - Race, Equality, and the Burdens of History
Fullinwider - The Case for Reparations
Is Black Racial Identity a Good Thing?
Kennedy - My Race Problem — and Ours
Howze/Weberman -
On Racial Kinship
The Immigration Effect: Can Racial Prejudice Be Ethnically Differentiated?
Waters - Encountering American Race Relations
The Long View and the Possibilities of Social Justice, Racial Justice and Reconciliation
Marable - Beyond Racial Identity Politics
King - The Ethical Demands
for Integration
Affirmative Action in Education and the Class/Race Problem
Cohen - Race Preference is Morally Wrong
Dworkin - Affirmative Action: Does It Work?
Assignments
Assignment 1
Handout - Comparison of English and Iberian Forms of Slavery and Conceptions of Race
Handout - Scientific Critique of Race
Handout - Charles Mills On Global White Supremacy
Handout - Discrimination and Consequences - I
Handout - Discrimination and Consequences - II
Handout - Frank Wu - The Model Minority Myth
Handout - McCarthy - Coming to Terms with Our Past - II