Class Schedule:
T 8/27: Course introduction
I. What is race?
R 8/29: Charles Mills, “Non-Cartesian Sums: Philosophy and the African-American Experience”
T 9/3: Michael O. Hardimon, “The Ordinary Concept of Race”
R 9/5: Michael Root, “How We Divide the World”
T 9/10: NO CLASS
R 9/12: W.E.B. Du Bois, “The Conservation of the Races” and “Of Our Spiritual Strivings”
T 9/17: Chike Jeffers, “The Cultural Theory of Race: Yet Another Look at Du Bois’s ‘The Conservation of Races’”
R 9/19: Kwame Anthony Appiah, “How to Decide If Races Exist”
II. Where did it come from?
T 9/24:Cornel West, “A Genealogy of Modern Racism”
R 9/26:Karen E. Fields & Barbara Fields, “Slavery, Race, and Ideology in the United States of America”
T 10/1:Aimé Césaire Discourse on Colonialism(pp. 31–53)
R 10/3: Aimé Césaire Discourse on Colonialism(pp. 54–78)
III. What is racial identity?
T 10/8: Charles Mills, “But What Are You, Really? The Metaphysics of Race”
R 10/10: Lionel K. McPherson and Tommie Shelby, “Blackness and Blood: Interpreting African American Identity”
Fall Break: October 14–15
R 10/17: Passin’ It On documentary
T 10/22: Linda Martín Alcoff, “Latinos and the Categories of Race”
R 10/24: Ofelia Schutte, “Negotiating Latina Identities”
T 10/29: Charles Mills, “White Ignorance”
R 10/31: Ronald R. Sundstrom, “Being and Being Mixed Race”
IV. How does race function in society?
T 11/5: Peggy McIntosh, “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” & Naomi Zack, “White Privilege, Entitlements, and Rights”
R 11/7: Frank B. Wilderson, Samira Spatzek, and Paula von Gleich, “‘The Inside-Outside of Civil Society’: An Interview with Frank B. Wilderson, III”
T 11/12: Asad Haider, Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump (pp. 1–26)
R 11/14: Asad Haider, Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump (pp. 27–64)
T 11/19: Tommie Shelby, “Is Racism ‘In the Heart’?”
R 11/21: Frantz Fanon, “Lived Experience of the Black Man”
Thanksgiving Break: November 25–29
T 12/3: Kwame Ture & Charles Hamilton, “White Power: The Colonial Situation”
R 12/6: Tommie Shelby, “Social Identity and Group Solidarity”
T 12/10: Chris Lebron, “The Radical Lessons We Have Not Yet Learned”