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Academic Year 2002/2003

Writing About Race in the Post-Civil Rights Era
AFAM 169 SP
Crosslistings:
AMST 120
ENGL 118

This course will examine the kinds of political writing about race that have appeared since the end of the Civil Rights era. It is not the intention of this course to try to trace a history of these texts but rather to explore in what ways public policy advocates, journalists, academics, and legal analysts have written about race as a feature in American social life.

MAJOR READINGS

Jonathan Coleman, LONG WAY TO GO
Ellis Cose, COLOR-BLIND
Randall Kennedy, RACE, CRIME AND THE LAW
Michael Lind, THE NEXT AMERICAN NATION
George Lipsitz, THE POSSESSIVE INVESTMENT IN WHITENESS
Melvin Oliver, Thomas Shapiro, BLACK WEALTH, WHITE WEALTH
Jim Sleeper, LIBERAL RACISM
Studs Terkel, RACE
Orlando Patterson, THE ORDEAL OF INTEGRATION
and others to be announced.

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

To be announced.

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: HA AFAM    Grading Mode: Graded   

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-18-2003

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