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SOC 307

Theories of Race and Culture
SOC 307 FA

Crosslistings: LAST307, AFAM307
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Next Offered in 9899 FA

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 sixteenth 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: Discussion Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UG Credit: 1.00 Gen Ed Area & Dept: SBS SOC

Prerequisites: SOC 151

Last Updated on MAR-10-1997



About the Photo:

W. E. B. DuBois, 1868-1963

Reference:

Ducas, George, exec. ed.. THE NEGRO IN AMERICAN HISTORY: BLACK AMERICANS 1928-1971. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1969



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