Week 1 (Sept. 7-9)

Reading

Still Seperate, Still Unequal: America's Educational Aparthied, Jonathan Kozol, pgs. 1-28

Week 2 (Sept. 12-16)

Reading

The "Tempest" In The Wilderness: The Racialization of Savagery, Ronald Takaki, pgs. 24-44

The "Tempest" cont., pgs. 61-76

Week 3 (Sept. 19-23)

Reading

The New Darwinism, Stephen Steinberg, pgs. 77-81

The Fire Next Time, My Dungeon Shook, James Baldwin

Down at the Cross, James Baldwin, pgs. 15-40

Video

Biography of James Baldwin

Writing

Response Paper to My Dungeon Shook, Due next Monday

Week 4 (Sept. 26-30)

Reading

Down at the Cross, James Baldwin, pgs. 41-82

Writing

Message Board

Week 5 (Oct. 3-7)

Reading

Down at the Cross, James Baldwin, pgs. 82-End

Peter Gelles, Why the Passion?

Robin D. G. Kelley, Race and Racism: A Symposium

Writing (Due 10/11)

Describe the "ethnic" and "racial" representations that you see in the the mass media (e.g., film, tv, music, magazines). Try to find representations of each of the following groups: Native Americans, Asians, Latinos/Hispanics, African Americans, and white ethnic groups (Italians, Irish, Greeks, Jews). Papers should be typed with a heading.

Week 6 (Oct. 10-14)

Reading

Robin Kelley, Introduction, pgs. 1-13

Robin Kelley, Looking To Get Paid, pgs. 43-60

Announcement

Midterm Exam, October 17th

Week 7 (Oct. 17-21)

Reading

Robin Kelley, Looking To Get Paid, pgs. 60-77

Stephen Steinberg, Why Irish Became Domestics and Italians and Jews Did Not, pgs. 151-166

Exam

Midterm Exam

Week 8 (Oct. 24-28)

Reading

Robin Kelley, Looking Backward, pgs. 78-101

Shelby Steele: Race and Responsibilities

Week 9 (Oct. 31-Nov. 4)

Movie

Bamboozled

Reading

Donald Bogle, Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and Bucks: An Interpretive History of Blacks in Films,

pgs. 1-18

Message Board

Write a response to Bogle, due Thursday

Week 10 (Nov. 7-11)

Reading

Lynell George, Brave New World, Funky Aztecs and Honorary HomeGirls 

David Wellman, Red and Black in White America: Discovering Cross-Border Identities and Other Subversive

Activities

Juan Flores, Puerto Rocks: Rap, Roots, and Amnesia, pgs. 115-139

Message Board

Response to Bamboozled, due Monday

Response Paper

Response to George and Wellman, due Thursday

Week 11 (Nov. 14-18)

Reading

Robert Lee, Preface, pgs. ix-xii & Introduction: Yellowface: pgs. 1-14

Robert Lee, The "Heathen Chinee" on God's Free Soil, pgs. 15-27

Week 12 (Nov. 21-23) Thanksgiving Holiday

Reading

Lee, The "Heathen Chinee" on God's Free Soil cont..., pgs. 27-43

Week 13 (Nov. 28-Dec. 2)

Reading

Lee, The Coolie and the Making of the White Wiorking Class, pgs. 51-58

Lee, The Cold War Origins of the Model Minority, pgs. 145-156

Week 14 (Dec. 5-9)

Reading

Lee, The Cold War Origins of the Model Minority, pgs. 156-161

Lee, The Model Minority as Gook, pgs. 189-196

Lee, After LA., pgs. 204-205 and 215-222

Week 15 (Dec. 12-16)

Stephen Steinberg, Up from Slavery: The Myth of Black Progress. pgs. 221- 241

Movie: TBA

Response Paper: write a short, one page response to the movie.

Winter Break, Dec. 17-Jan. 2

Week 16 (Jan. 3-6)

Reading

Robin Kelley, Looking Forward, pgs. 125-158

Final Paper Due Jan. 13

Week 17 (Jan. 9-13)

Reading

Bakari Kitwana, Coalition Building Across Race: Organizing the Hip-Hop Voting Bloc, pgs. 163-210

Paper Due: Movement Building