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Academic Year 2001/2002
Sociology and "Race"
SOC 269 SP
"The problem of the twentieth century," W.E.B. DuBois wrote, "is the problem of the color line." The significance of "race" has been a central concern of American sociology since its inception. This course will examine
various and competing
sociological theories of "race" and racial stratification in the twentieth century, including the "race relations cycle," the "assimilation," the "colonial," the "class," the "racial formation," the "world-system," and
the "postmodern" or "multicultural"
perspectives.
MAJOR READINGS
Selected readings from Ezra Park
Selected readings from E. Franklin Frazier
Selected readings from W.E.B. DuBois
Milton Gordon, Jr., ASSIMILATION IN AMERICAN LIFE
Gunnal Myrdal, AN AMERICAN DILEMMA
Nathan
Glazer and Daniel P. Moynihan,
BEYOND THE MELTING POT
Robert Blauner, RACIAL OPPRESSION IN AMERICA
Oliver C. Cox, CLASS, CASTE, AND RACE
Edna Bonacich, "Advanced Capitalism and Black/White Relations: A Split Labor Market Theory"
William J.
Wilson, THE DECLINING SIGNIFICANCE
OF RACE
Michael Omi and Howard Winant, RACIAL FORMATION IN THE UNITED STATES
Etienne Balibar and Immanuel Wallerstein, RACE, NATION, CLASS
Stuart Hall, "New Ethnicities"
Kenan Malik, "Universalism, Humanism,
and the Discourse of Race"
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Two take-home essays (6-8 pages each) and a final in-class exam, or a research paper (15-18 pages) and the final in-class exam.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
This course is not open to first-year students.
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/Discussion
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS SOC
Grading Mode:
Graded
Prerequisites:
SOC151
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Last Updated on MAR-19-2002
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