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SOC 307
Theories of Race and Culture
SOC 307 FA
Crosslistings: LAST307, AFAM307
Photo Caption and Credits
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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