Race and Racism, J. Friedman, Spring 2009
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Race and Racism
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J. Friedman
jfriedman@sociology.rutgers.edu
rci.rutgers.edu/~judithjf/race.htm and class site on Sakai
This seminar focuses on the concepts of race and racism. It traces the change in their meaning through time, especially in the United
States, and especially in the past 150 years. In the seminar, we also will examine and evaluate current ideas about racism in
the U.S. Readings include historic documents, theoretical analyses, and various kinds of social science research.
Assignments include preparing for certain class discussions and a set of short written assignments.
Class. Attendance is required, of course. Come to class, and come on time. Positive participation is part of your grade. The class will
have substantial discussion, sometimes in small groups. In these discussions, I expect everyone to be considerate of others,
to respect others’ ideas, and to challenge the evidence behind their own and others’ ideas.
Readings. The list of books and articles includes required readings (*) and supplementary readings (no *). Assigned readings are in
three books, on the class Sakai site (as resources), or on websites. The three books, available at the Livingston Bookstore
and at NJ Books, are: Maria Krysan and Amanda E. Lewis, 2004, The Changing Terrain of Race and Ethnicity, Russell Sage
Foundation, Michael K. Brown, et al., Whitewashing Race, 2003, U. of California Press, and Monica McDermott, 2006,
Working class White, University of California Press. These books also are on reserve in the Kilmer Library.
Sakai and Website. The Sakai site will have announcements, assignments, readings, and so forth. You can post to the Sakai chat
room. The class website is at www.rci.rutgers.edu/~judithjf/race.htm; the Sakai site has a link. The website has links to other
useful websites.
Tests and Papers. There are two primarily short-answer tests, and quizzes as necessary. I will give you handouts about short
projects that are due through the semester. They must be turned in on time.
Grade.
I expect to compute your grade using these weights: test 1 22%, test 2 25%, quiz(es) 10% participation 8%,
assignments 35%.
various
Office Hours. Monday and Thursday, 12-12:30 in Tillett or in my office; directly after each class, in Beck; and by appointment. My
office phone number is 445-0054, and my e-mail address is jfriedman@sociology.rutgers.edu. Please use Research
Methods as the subject.
Academic Integrity and Research Ethics. I expect you to be honest and ethical as you do all course work and research. When you
carry out research for the class, this means careful work, and REAL work. Assignments must show your own individual work.
University’s policies are at teachx.rutgers.edu/integrity/policy.html.
Classroom Integrity. The Department of Sociology encourages the free exchange of ideas in a safe, supportive, and productive
classroom environment. To facilitate such an environment, students and faculty must act with mutual respect and common
courtesy. Thus, behavior that distracts students and faculty is not acceptable. Such behavior includes cell phone use, surfing
the internet, checking email, text messaging, listening to music, reading newspapers, leaving and returning, leaving early
without permission, discourteous remarks, and other behaviors specified by individual instructors. Courteous and lawful
expression of disagreement with the ideas of the instructor or fellow students is, of course, permitted.
If a student engages in disruptive behavior, the instructor, following the University Code of Student Conduct, may direct the student to
leave class for the remainder of the class period. Instructors may specify other consequences in their syllabi. Serious verbal
assaults, harassment, or defamation of the instructor or other students can lead to university disciplinary proceedings. The
University Code of Student Conduct is at http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~polcomp/judaff/ucsc.shtml.
*I may change assignments and dates; any changes are announced in class
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Readings, with approximate dates
During each class, I will announce the readings for the next class.
1. Accounts of racism, past and present
A. Many ideas (Jan. 21 – 26) [These readings are together as one Sakai “resource;” Look for ”1. A. readings.”
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Piper, Adrian, 1992, selections from “Decide Who You Are,” Paula Cooper Gallery, NYC
Smith, Lillian, 1944, “The White Problem,” Negro Digest (Oct. 14): 5-6
Harris, Cheryl I., 1993, “On Passing: whiteness as power,” Harvard Law Review
Clemetson, Lynette, 2007, “The racial politics of speaking well,” New York Times (Feb. 7): S. 4, p. 1
* Schultz, Connie, 2008, “The right approach to confronting racism,” Plain Dealer (July 23)
* News Hour, 1997, “In Black and White: Abigail Thernstrom,” Nov. 11 www.pbs.org/newshour
* Steele, Shelby, 2008, “Obama seduced whites with a vision of their racial innocence precisely to coerce them into acting
out of a racial motivation,” LA Times Nov. 5
Smith, Lillian, 1955, “There are Things to Do and Things to Say” and “The Twenty-five Questions” in Now is the Time
Steele, Shelby, 2007, “Redemptive Liberalism puts distancing American from its past ahead of loving free today,” The Globe
and Mail, Oct. 25, A21
Piper, Adrian, www.adrianpiper.com
Thernstrom, Abrigail and Stephen, 1997, America in Black and White, Simon and Schuster
Du Bois: www.webdubois.org
Racismreview.com: thoughts on racism, culture, society, and politics www.racismreview.com
B. Organizing ideas (Jan 27 – 31)
* “Introduction: Racism Preferences and Race Privileges,” 2003, pp. 1-33 in Whitewashing Race, U. of California Press
* Tilly, Charles, 1998, Durable Inequality, U. of California Press, pp. 1-15, 35-39, 147-153 Sakai/ER (web content)
* Lewis, Amanda E., Maria Keysan, and Nakesha Harris, 2004, “Introduction: Assessing Changes in the Meaning and
Significance of Race and Ethnicity,” pp. 1-12 in The Changing Terrain of Race and Ethnicity, Russell Sage
* McArdle, Elaine, 2008, “Sociologists on the colorblind question, Contexts (Winter) 34-37 Sakai
C. Examples of recent research (Feb 1 - 5)
* Pierce, Jennifer, 2002, “Racing toward Innocence,” Qualitative Sociology 26 (Spring): 56-70 Sakai
* Myers, Kristen and Passion Williamson, 2002, “Race talk: the perpetuation of racism through private discourse,” Race &
Society 4:3-26 Sakai
* Lamont, Michele, 2003, “Who counts as ‘them?’ Racism and virtue in the United States and France,” Contexts 2(Fall): 3641 Sakai
Lamont, Michele, 2000, The Dignity of Working Men, Harvard U. Pess
* DiTomaso, Nancy, 2003, “Interview with Nancy DiTomaso, Background reading for Race – The Power of an Illusion,
www.pbsl.org/race/000_about/002-04 or Sakai
* Pager, Devah, 2003, “Blacks and ex-cons need not apply,* Contexts 2(Fall): 58-59 Sakai
* Krysan, Maria, Reynolds Farley, and Mick Couper, 2008, “In the eye of the beholder: Racial beliefs and residential
segregation,” Du Bois Review 5(1): 5-26 [with video on a website] Sakai
2. Going back in time: how have people thought about race and racism? (Feb 6 – 16)
* Smedley, Audrey and Brian Smedley, 2005, Race as biology is fiction, racism as a social problem is real,” American
Psychologist 60(Jan.): 16-26 Sakai
* “Nineteenth century views of race,” a selection of images on the class website
* American Anthropological Assn., Go to understandingrace.org/history/science/one_race.html and to
understandingrace.org/history/science/measuring_race.html, and look at the timeline.
* The History Project, University of California Davis, U.S. History images posted on: historyproject/ucdavis.edu
* Norton, Henry Kittredge, 2007, “The Chinese,” The Virtual Museum of SF www.sfmuseum.org/hist6/chinhate.html
* Postcards – to see examples, select postcards on e-bay, and “race”
* Manning, Christopher, 2007, “African Americans,” Encyclopedia of Chicago www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.
org/pages/27.html
*I may change assignments and dates; any changes are announced in class
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Bay, Mia, 2000, “Conclusion,” pp. 219-229 in The White Image in the Black Mind, Oxford U Press Sakai
Du Bois, W.E.B., Souls of Black Folk, “Of Our Spiritual Strivings” www.bartleby.com/114/
Rutledge, Dennis, 2007, “W.E.B. Du Bois,” pp. 1244-1246 in Encyclopedia of Sociology Sakai
Washington, Booker T., 1907, “The Economic Development of the Negro Race since its Emancipation,” C. 2 in The Negro
in the South: His economic progress in relation to his moral and religious development, Sakai
* “Is Booker T. Washington Crazy?” 1903, Cleveland Gazette 21 (Nov. 7) dbs.ohiohistory.org go to African American
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* ArdIzzone, Heidi, 2006, “’Such Fine Families:’ photography and race in the work of Caroline Bond Day,” Visual Studies 21
(2): 106-132 Sakai
* Briggs, William, 1961, “The counselor and Ohio’s fair employment practices law,” Guidance News and Views 11(4) Sakai
* Carmichael, Stokely and Charles V. Hamilton, 1967, Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America, Vintage Books,
pp. vii-xii, 3-32 Sakai
You can hear speeches by Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Stokely Carmichael, and others on www.americanhetoric.com
African American Newspapers, 1827-1964 Searchable newspapers; a Rutgers’ index
Allen, Theodore W., 1994, The Invention of the White Race, Vs. 1 and 2, Verso
Bay, Mia, 2000, The White Image in the Black Mind, Oxford
Bean, Robert Bennett, 1910, “Philippine Types,” American Anthropologist 12(3): 737-389
Davis, F. James, 1991, Who is Black: One nation’s definition, Penn State U Press
DuBois, W.E.B., www.webdubois.org
Fairclough, Adam, 2001, Better Days Coming: blacks and equality, 1890-2000, Penguin
Fuligni, Andrew (ed.), 2007, Contesting Stereotypes and Creating Identities, Russell Sage
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr. and Gene Andrew Jarrett, 2997, The New Negro: Readings on Race, Representation, and African
American Culture, 1892-1938, Princeton U Press
Grant-Thomas, Andrew and John A. Powell, 2006, “Toward a structural racism framework,” Poverty & Race 15(6): 3-6
Hogan, Wesley, Many Minds, One Heart: SNCC’s Dream for a New America
Katznelson, Ira, 2005, When Affirmative Action was White, W.W. Norton ; pp. 80-112 are about WW II
Kerner Commission, 1968, The Kerner Report: Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders,
Kretsedemas, Philip, 2008, “Redefining ‘Race’ in North America,” Current Sociology 56 (Nov.): 826-844
Loewen, James, 2005, Sundown Towns: A hidden dimension of American Racism
McEnroe, Sean, 2003, “Philippines with an American Brush: Visions of Race and National Mission among the Oregon
Volunteers in the Philippine Wars of 1898 and 1889, Oregon Historical Quarterly 104 (Spring):
Nye, William P., 1978, “The Emergent Idea of Race,” Theory and Society 5(May): 345-372
Sidbury, James, 2007, Becoming African in America: Race and Nation in the early black Atlantic, 1760-1830, Oxford
Smith, Shawn Michelle, 2005, Photography on the Color Line: W.E.B. Du Bois, Race and Visual Culture, Duke
Steedman, Mark, 2008, “How was race constructed in the new South?” Du Bois Review 5(1): 49-67
Takezawa, Yasuko, 2005, “Transcending the Western paradigm of the idea of race,” Japanese J of American Studies 16: 520
Wade, Peter, 1997, The Meaning of Race and Ethnicity, in Race and Ethnicity in Latin America, Pluto Press
Washington, Booker T., papers on-line: www.historycooperative.org and docsouth.unc.edu
Washington, Booker T., 1901, Up from Slavery: an autobiography. www.bartleby.com/1004
Wiltse, Jeff, 2007, Contested Waters: A social history of swimming pools in America,
3. What of those neither white nor black? (Feb 17-March 1)
* Bow, Leslie, 2007, “Racial interstitially and the anxieties of the ‘partly colored’,” J of Asian American Studies 10(1): 1-30
Sakai
* Barrett, James R. and David Roediger, 1997, “Inbetween peoples: race nationality and the ‘new immigrant” working class,”
J of American Ethnic History 16(Spring): Sakai
Ignatiev, Noel, 1995, How the Irish became White, especially pp. 92-121
Roediger, David R., 2005, Working Toward Whiteness: how America’s immigrants became white, Basic Books
* Zia, Helen, 2000, Asian American Dreams, pp. 3-34 and 46-52
Sakai/ER
* Zhou, Min, 2004, “Are Asians Americans becoming White?” Contexts 3(1)”: 29-37
* Ramos-Zayas, 2007, “Becoming American, Becoming Black? Urban competency, racialized spaces, and the politics of
citizenship among Brazilian and Puerto Rican youth in Newark,” Identities 14: 85-109 Sakai
Aguilar-San Juan, Karin, 2005, “Staying Vietnamese: Community and Place in Orange County and Boston,” City and
Community 4(March): 37*I may change assignments and dates; any changes are announced in class
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Chan, Sucheng and Madeline Y. Hsu, eds., 2008, Chinese Americans and the Politics of Race and Culture, Temple
University Press
Radford, Alexandra, 2008, “Another shade of ‘white’? Indian immigrants identify in the United States,” pp. in Racism in
Post-Race America, Social Forces Publishing
Candelaria, Ginetta, 2007, Black behind the ears: Dominican racial identify from museums to beauty shops, Duke University
Press
Chou, Rosalind and Joe Feagin, 2008, The Myth of the Model Minority: Asian Americans Facing Racism, Paradigm
Publishers
Cong, Sylvia Shin Huey, 2008, “’Look, an Asian!’ The politics of racial interpellation in the wake of the Virginia Tech
shootings,” Journal of Asian American Studies 11 (Feb.): 27-60
Das Gupta, Monisha, 2006, Unruly Immigrants: Rights, Activism, and Transnational South Asian Politics in the US
Huie, Wing Young, 2007 Looking for Asian America, U of Minnesota Press
Junn, Jane, 2007, “From Coolie to Model Minority,” Du Bois Review 4(2): 355-373
Lim, Shirley Jennifer, 2008, “Asian American Youth Culture,” Journal Asian-American Studies (June): 211-228
Kurashige, Scott, 2008, The Shifting Grounds of Race: black and Japanese Americans in the making of multiethnic Los
Angeles
Lott, Juanita T., 2007, Common Destiny: Filipino American generations, Rowman Littlefield
Jang, Sung Joon, 2002, “Race, ethnicity, and deviance: a study of Asian and non-Asian adolescents in America,”
Sociological Forum 17 (Dec.): 647-680
Loveman, Mara and Jeronimo Muniz, 2007, “How Puerto Rico became white: boundary dynamics and intercensus racial
reclassification,’” American Sociological Review 72(Dec.): 915-939
Maira, Sunaina Marr, 2002, Desis in the House: Indian American Youth Culture in New York City, Temple U. Press
Sanchez, George J., 1995, Becoming Mexican America, Oxford
Sawyer, Mark Q. and Tianna Paschel, 2007, “’We didn’t cross the color line, the color line crossed us’: Blackness and
immigration in the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and the United States,” Du Bois Review 4(2): 303-315
Tiongso, Anthony, E. Gutierrez, and R. Gutierrez, 2006, Positively Filipinos Allowed: Building Communities and Discourse,
Temple U. Press
Vickerman, Milton, 2007, “Recent immigration and race,” Du Bois Review 4(1): 141-165
Zhou, Min and Jennifer Lee, 2007, “Becoming ethnic or becoming American?” Du Bois Review 4(1): 189-205
Test about March 2
4. Whiteness (March 3 – March 13 and Spring Break)
* McDermott, Monica, 2006, Working Class White: the making and unmaking of race relations, U. of California Press
* Kendall, Frances E., 2001, “Understanding White Privilege,” www.uwm.edu/~gjay/whiteness or
www.cswworkshop.org/pdfs/w1wp2/underst_white_priv.pdf
* Roediger, David R., 2008, “White Interview” (Oct. 27) Stuffwhitepeopledo.blogspot.com/2008/10
Baum, Bruce, 2006, The rise and fall of the Caucasian race: a political history of racial identity, NYU Press
Hartigan, John, 1997, “Unpopular Culture: The Case of ‘White Trash’,” Cultural Studies 11(2): 316-343
Hartigan, John, 1999, Racial Situations: Class predicaments of Whiteness in Detroit, Princeton U. Press
Pearson, Jay A., 2008, “Can’t Buy Me Whiteness: New lessons from the Titanic on race, ethnicity, and health,” Du Bois
Review 5 (1): 27-48
Van Ausdale, Debra and Joe Feagin, 1996, “Using racial and ethnic concepts: the critical case of very young children,”
American Sociological Review 61(Oct): 779-793
5. Presenting ideas about Race, Racism, and Whiteness (March 23 – 26)
* Nichols, Matthew Guy, 2006, Willie Cole: the energy of objects,” Art in America 170 (May): 147-151 Sakai
* Valdez, Sarah, 2006, “Lorna Simpson: Echoes of the unspoken, Art in America 170 (December) 106-111 Sakai
* Cotter, Holland, 2008, “The Topic is Race; the Art is Fearless,” New York Times (March 30): AR 1, 32 Sakai and see the
slide show: www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/03/30/arts/20080330_COTT_SLIDESHOW_index.html
* Williams, Patricia J., 2004, “Preface” and Maurice Berger, “Invisible Man,” pp. 16 31 in Maurice Berger, 2004, White:
Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art, Issues in Cultural Theory 7, Center for Art and Visual Culture, Univ.
Maryland Baltimore County. Sakai Look at the slide show: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6668310/site/newsweek/
* Harris, Michael D., www.michaeldharris.com/
Futrell, Robert, Pete Simi and Simon Gottschalk, 2006, “Understanding Music in Movements: the white power music scene,
Sociological Quarterly 47 (May): 275-304
Harris, Michael, 2003, Colored Pictures: Race and Visual Representation, U of North Carolina Press
Roediger, David R., 2003, “I Came for the Art,” Art Papers (May/June): 23Sakai
*I may change assignments and dates; any changes are announced in class
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Twine, France Winddance, 2006, “Visual Ethnography and racial theory: family photographs as archives of interracial
intimacies,” Ethnic and Racial Studies 29(May): 487-511
6. Structural Racism: how does it operate? (March 27 – April 6)
* Of Fish and Water, pp. 34-65 in Whitewashing Race, and reread pps. 22-30 from the introduction
* Sacks, Karen Brodkin, 1994, “How did Jews become White folks?” pp. 78-99 in Steven Gregory and Roger Sanjek, eds.,
Race, Rutgers University Press Sakai
* Bobo, Lawrence, 2006, “Katrina: unmasking race, poverty, and politics in the 21 st century,” Du Bois R. 3(1): 1-6 Sakai
* DiTomaso reread
* “Been in the Pen so Long”: Race, Crime and Justice, pp. 132-160 in Whitewashing Race
Bullard, Robert D., 2006, “Katrina and the Second Disaster: a twenty-point plan to destroy Black New Orleans,” Poverty and
Race 15 (Nov.): 20-22
Sakai
Feagin, Joe R., 2004, “Toward an integrated theory of systematic racism,” pp. 203-223 in The Changing Terrain
Marable, Manning, 2004, “The political and theoretical contexts of the changing racial terrain,” pp. 224- 234 in The Changing
Terrain
Roediger, David R., 2008, “A New Deal: Dreams and Dreams Deferred in a White Security State,” pp. 173-184” in How Race
Survived US History, Verso
Shapiro, Thomas M., 2004, The Hidden Cost of being African American: how wealth perpetuates inequality, Oxford
More on the operation of structural racism
* Williams, David R., and Pamela B. Jackson, 2005, “Social Sources of Racial Disparities in Health,” Health Affairs 24(2):
325-334 Sakai
* Dobbin, Frank, Alexandra Kalev, and Erin Kelly, 2007, “Diversity management in corporate America,” Contexts (Fall): 2127 Sakai
* Lewis, Amanda E., Maria Krysan, Sharon M. Collins, Korie Edwards, and Geoff Ward, 2004, “Institutional Patterns and
Transformations: race and ethnicity in housing, education, labor markets, religion, and criminal justice,” pp. 67-119 in
The Changing Terrain
[read about one area]
* Mills, Charles W., 2004, “Racial exploitation and the wages of whiteness,” 235 -42 and 251--260 in Changing Terrain
* Dawson, Michael C., 2006, “After the Deluge: publics and publicity in Katrina’s wake,” Du Bois R. 3(1):239-249 Sakai
Alon, Sigal and Marta Tienda, 2005, “Assessing the ‘mismatch’ hypothesis: differences in college graduation rates by
institutional selectivity,” Sociology of Education 78 (Oct.): 294-315
Avery, Robert and M. Rendall, 2002, “Lifetime inheritances of three generations of whites and blacks,” American Journal of
Sociology 107(5): 1300-1346
Boehm, Thomas, Paul Thistle, and Alan Schlottmann, 2006, “Rates and race: an analysis of racial disparities in mortgage
rates,” Housing Policy Debate 17(1): 109-149
Hill, Robert B., 2004, “Institutional racism in child welfare,” Race & Society 7: 17-33
Kalev, Alexandra, Frank Dobbin, and Erin Kelly, 2006, “Best practices or best guesses? Assessing the efficacy of corporate
affirmative action and diversity policies,” American Sociological Review 71 (Aug.): 589-617
Lewis, Amanda, 2004, Race in the School Yard: Negotiating the color line in classrooms and communities, Rutgers U. Press
Pager, Devah and Lincoln Quillian, 2005, “Walking the Talk? What employers say versus what they do,” American
Sociological Review 70(June): 355-380
Royster, Dierdre A., 2003, Race and the invisible hand: how white networks exclude black men from blue collar jobs, U of
California Press
Zamudio, Margaret and Michael Lichter, 2008, “Bad attitudes and good soldiers,” Social Problems 55 (4): 573-598
7. Color Blind Racism and Whiteness (April 7 – 14)
* Bobo, Lawrence, 2004, “Inequalities that Endure? Racial ideology, American politics, and the peculiar role of the social
sciences,” pp. 13-42 in The Changing Terrain
* Forman, Tyrone A., 2004, “Color-blind racism and racial indifference: the role of racial apathy in facilitating enduring
inequalities,” pp. 43-66 The Changing Terrain
* Lipsitz, George, 1998, “White Desire: Remembering Robert Johnson,” pp. 118-131 only in Possessive Investment in
Whiteness: How white people profit from identity politics Sakai
* Young, Alford, 2006, “Unearthing ignorance: Hurricane Katrina and the re-envisioning of the urban black poor,” Du Bois
Review 3(1): 203-213 Sakai
Evidence from recent research
* Gragmeier, Jeff, 2006, “Whites underestimate the costs of being black,” [research by Philip Mazzocco], press release from
Ohio State University Sakai
* Grady, John, 2007, "Imagining Integration: Advertisements as Social Indicators: The Depiction of African Americans in Life
Magazine," Visual Sociology, 22 (Dec.): 210=239 Sakai
*I may change assignments and dates; any changes are announced in class
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Bell, Joyce and Douglas Hartmann, 2007, “Diversity in everyday discourse: the cultural ambiguities and consequences of
‘happy talk’,” American Sociological Review 72 (Dec.): 895-914
Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo, 2006, Racism without Racists, Rowman and Littlefield
Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo and David Embrick, 2001, “Are Blacks color blind too?” Race & Society 4: 47-67
Hunt, Matthew O., 2007, “Beliefs about Black/White Inequality,” American Sociological Review 72(June): 390-415
King, Ryan and Melissa Weiner, 2007, “Group Position, Collective Threat, and American anti-Semitism,” 2007, Social
Problems 54 (1): 4777
Mazzocco, Philip, et al., 2006, The Cost of Being Black: white Americans’ perceptions and the question of reparations,” Du
Bois Review 3(2): 261-297
Briggs, Xavier de Souza, 2007, “Some of my best friends are? Interracial friendships, class, and segregation in America,”
City and Community 6(Dec.):
Unnever, James D., 2008, “Two worlds far apart: black-white differences in beliefs about why African-American men are
disproportionately imprisoned,” Criminology 46 (2): 511-538
Test about April 15
8. Everyday Anti-racism (April 16 – 22)
* LaMont, Michele and Crystal Fleming, 2005, “Everyday antiracism: competence and religion in the cultural repertoire of the
African American Elite,” Du Bois Review 2(1): 29-43 Sakai
* Lee, Jennifer, 2000, “The Salience of Race in Everyday Life,” Work and Occupations 27 (Aug.): 353-376 Sakai
* Lacy, Karyn, 2007, Blue Chip Black, pp. 49-52, 56-71, and 210-219
Sakai
9. Ideas about the future of racism (April 23 – May 4)
A. New biological ideas
* Brace, C. Loring, 2005, “Introduction” and “The Biology of Human Variation,“ pp. 1-16 in “Race” is a four-letter word,
Oxford University Press Sakai/ER
* Leroi, Armand Marie, 2006, “A family tree in every gene,” New York Times (March 14): A23 Sakai
* Duster, Troy, 2006, “The molecular reinscription of race: unanticipated issues in biotechnology and forensic science,”
Patterns of Prejudice 40(September): 427-441 Sakai
* Carter, Robert, 2007, “Genes, genomes and genealogies: the return of scientific racism?” Ethnic and Racial Studies
30(July)” 546-556 Sakai
B. No longer Color Blind?
* Foner, Nancy, 2005, “The social construction of race in two immigrant eras,” pp, 11-42 in In a New Land Sakai
* Bobo, Lawrence, 2006, “The More Things Change: continuity and change in the American Racial Landscape,” Du Bois
Review 3(2): 257-260 Sakai
* Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo ad Karen S. Glover, 2004, “”We are all Americans’: the Latin Americanization of race relations in the
United States,’ pp. 149-183 in The Changing Terrain
* “Conclusion: Facing up to Racism,” pp. 223-251 in Whitewashing Race, and reread the introduction
Quiz May 4
Journals:
Race Traitor
Latino Studies
Du Bois Review
Ethnic and Racial Studies
Patterns of Prejudice
J of Black Studies
J of Asian American Studies
J of Race and Ethnicity
Race and Society
Social Identities
and the usual sociology journals – see the index
Sociological Abstracts and the Sakai resource, Finding
Articles
Other useful indexes available through the Rutgers Library:
Ethnic NewsWatch …
19th Century US Newspapers
African-American Newspapers (1820s to 1864)
Black Thought and Culture
Hispanic-American Periodicals Index
Access World News (includes Star Ledger and Home News and Tribune)
Lexis Nexis scholarly or Historic Newspapers (New York Times)
*I may change assignments and dates; any changes are announced in class