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Academic Year 2000/2001

Theories of Race and Culture
SOC 307 FA
Crosslistings:
LAST 307
AFAM 307

This course will examine the contributions of several African American and Caribbean writers to the theories of race and racism in the Americas. Through close textual readings, the course will focus on how each author establishes causal relations among the emergence of the modern capitalist world-economy in the 16th century, the establishment of colonies and of the slave systems in the New World, the evolution of a social hierachy of race and color and of a racist culture, and the effects of racism on the subordinated black populations of the Americas. Also to be considered are the solutions offered by these authors to the race question in the Americas.

MAJOR READINGS

Oliver C. Cox, RACE, CLASS, AND THE WORLD SYSTEM Derrick Bell, FACES AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WELL W.E.B. DuBois, W.E.B. DUBOIS SPEAKS, Vols, 1 & 2 edited by Philip S. Foner Anna Julia Cooper, A VOICE FROM THE SOUTH Patricia Hill Collins, BLACK FEMINIST THOUGHT Frantz Fanon, BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASKS St. Clair Drake, BLACK FOLK HERE AND THERE C.L.R. James, THE C.L.R. JAMES READER, ed. by Anna Grimshaw George Lamming, SEASON OF ADVENTURE Martin Luther King, Jr., A TESTAMENT OF HOPE ed. by James M. Washington Walter Rodney, THE GROUNDINGS WITH MY BROTHERS Cornell West, KEEPING FAITH

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Two short take-home essays (6-8 pages) and a longer research paper (15-20 pages).

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

Those students who have not taken SOC 151 may see the instructor for permission to take this course. Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS SOC    Grading Mode: Student Option   

Prerequisites: SOC151 Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-26-2001

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