For Wednesday, 8/25

Prep

• White House Memo on Critical Race Theory (20 September 2020). keywords: critical race theory; racism; white privilege.

Zoom Session

1. Q&A: Attendance/Introductions/Review of the Assigned Reading
2. Format of the Class
   • Blackboard
   • Course Website
   • Slack
   • Google Docs
3. Review of the Syllabus

For Next Time

• HW: Semester Goals HW
• Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2016), Ch. 1 (‘Race in the Twenty-First Century’): ‘A Cancer’; ‘American Racism in the Twenty-First Century’