COURSE SCHEDULE

COURSE SCHEDULE

Note: this course schedule is contingent on the pace of our discussions and might be updated throughout the course. Please always check the online course schedule for readings and assignments.

Many of the readings will be handouts and will be handed out in class one or several classes before the readings are assigned. After handing out the photocopies in class, I will keep them in front of my door. Should you miss a reading, please make sure to pick one up as soon as possible.

I have included in this course schedule some extracurricular programs, most of them are documentaries. They are printed in italics. I expect you to attend/watch as many of these as possible. Attending these events and writing blogs about them will count as extra credits.

Unit 1: What is Race?

Week 1

T 8/28: Introduction: Does Racial Inequality Exist in the US?

Th 8/30: Readings (handouts): Blank, Rebecca: The Color of Health; Williams/Collins: Overview of Trends in Social and Economic Well-being

Week 2

T 9/04: Online material: Race-the Power of an Illusion. Go over interactive media “What is Race?” and “Sorting People.” Read: Statement on Biological Aspects of Race

Th 9/06: Readings: Marks, Jonathan: “Scientific and Folk Ideas About Heredity”; Interview with Stephen Jay Gould; (both can be found as Background Readings, topic “Science” to .

Note: The Video Race-the Power of an Illusion. is going to be available for viewing in the Library.

Unit 2: Self and Others – Race and Identity Development

Week 3

T 9/11: Beverley Tatum: Why are all the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? Part I

Th 9/13: Part II, Chapter 3

Week 4

T 9/18: Part II: Chapter 4 and 5

Presenters: Amber Rusello, Ian Maxwell, Cara Claflin

Th 9/20: Part III: Chapter 6 and 7; White Privilege: Unpacking the Knapsack of White Privilege;

Presenters: Kirsten Pirro, Dan Beesmer, Jeannie Johnson

Unit 3: The Making of Race in the United States

Week 5 Video Alert: Race – The Power of An Illusion Part II Sunday 9/23 at noon and 9PM, and Monday 9/24 and Tuesday 9/25 at 9 PM

M 9/24 Rebel without a Cause (Clarkson event, location and exact time provided later)

T 9/25: Tatum Part IV;

Presenters: Rebecca Rounds, Pascal Herrington, Shawn Mosier

Th 9/27: Group Work on Study Guide – don’t forget to e-mail me one copy of your group’s discussion of study guide

AFTER THE LAST CLASS ON FRIDAY, 28 SEPTEMBER, FALL BREAK BEGINS. CLASSES RESUME WEDNESDAY,

OCTOBER 3^RD.

Week 6

T 10/02: Class cancelled for Fall Break

Th 10/04: Reading: ~~Dalton Conley: “Forty Acres and a Mule” (handout);~~ Review for Midterm

Week 7

T 10/09: Midterm

Th 10/11: Dalton Conley: “Forty Acres and a Mule” (handout); Video clip: Race the Power of an Illusion; Where Race Lives;

Unit 4: Residential Segregation: Sedimentation of Wealth Differences

Week 8 Video: Race – The Power of an Illusion, Part Three;

T 10/16: Reading: Conley: From Financial to Social to Human Capital”; Orfield: "Segregated Housing and School Resegregation" (handout);

Presenter: Shawna Roche

Th 10/18: Readings: Kozol: "Public Education in New York" (handout); Alabama Plan Brings Out Cry of Resegregation Class Notes

Presenters: Jacqueline Smith, Matt Ulsh, Connor Leman

Week 9

T 10/23: Discussion of Assignment 1 (handout); Readings: Kozol: "Public Education in New York" (handout); Alabama Plan Brings Out Cry of Resegregation Class Notes;

Presenters: Jacqueline Smith, Matt Ulsh, Connor Leman

Th 10/25: Info material on segregation. Some Notes on the Effects of Residential Segregation; Housing Segregation Persists; Perpetuation of Housing Discrimination; Discrimination and Segregation in Housing;

Th 10/25: 9pm Video on Clarkson Cable Channel: The Road To Brown (documentary about the history of the legal fight that eventually led to Brown vs. Board of Education) (Extra Credit Assignment)

F 10/26: 9pm Video on Clarkson Cable Channel: The Road To Brown (documentary about the history of the legal fight that eventually led to Brown vs. Board of Education) (Extra Credit Assignment)

Unit 5: Education and Race: From Laws to Genes

Week 10

T 10/30: Staiger “Whiteness As Giftedness" (handout title page Social Problems); Assignment 1: DUE

Presenters: Brett Heath, Nathan Christian, Kevin Linares

Th 11/01: Staiger “Whiteness As Giftedness" (handout title page Social Problems);

Presenters: ~~Katherine Morrison,~~ Julie Norris, Kerri Mitchell

Week 11

M 11/5: Video on Clarkson Cable Channel: 9pm Off Track; 9:30pm Road to Brown

T 11/06: Race and Higher Education - Strategies of Empowerment: Presenters: Maksim Sokolov, Simone White, John Walters

Video on Clarkson Cable Channel: 9pm Off Track; 9:30pm Road to Brown

W 11/7: Video on Clarkson Cable Channel: 7pm: The Education of Little Tree; 9pm Off Track; 9:30pm Road to Brown

Th 11/08: Readings: Steele: "Stereotype Threat and the Test Performance of Academically Successful African-American Children" (handout); Stephen Jay Gould: “Ghosts of Bell Curves Past” (handout) Please read up on the following links about the latest outbreak of the IQ Fury at DNA pioneer's theory: Africans are less intelligent than Westerners debate; Race and Intelligence; Nobel Scientist …. says sorry; Check out particularly the comments from readers. Presenters: Claude Tulloch, Mark VanGlad

Th 11/08: Video on Clarkson Cable Channel: 7pm The Education of Little Tree

F 11/09: Video on Clarkson Cable Channel: 7pm The Education of Little Tree

Unit 6: Theory of Racial Formation

Week 12

T 11/13: Reading: Lakota Woman Ch 1-5; ~~Omi and Winant: “Racial Formation”~~ Presenters: Kara Bularzik, Michelle Cativo, Alex Cadenas

Th 11/15: Reading: Lakota Woman; Ch. 6-10: Guest Lecture: Kallen Martin, St Lawrence University, on “The Discourse of Indigeneity”

Friday 11/16: 4pm: Humanities and Social Science Colloquium – Kallen Martin: title to be announced

Week 13

T 11/20: Reading: Lakota Woman Chs. 11-16

THANKSGIVING BREAK BEGINS AT END OF CLASSES TODAY. CLASSES RESUME ON MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26.

Unit 6: Fighting for Racial Justice

Week 14