For Monday, 9/27

Prep

• Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2020), Ch. 2 (‘The Invention of Race’): ‘Manifest Destiny’; ‘Immigration from Asia and Europe’; Racial Discourses of Modernity’; ‘America’s Racial Profile Today’; ‘We, the Past’

Zoom Session

• Attendance/Introductions, cont’d
• Semester Goals HW
• A ‘Counter-Centennial’
• Reading Notes for ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’

For Next Time

• Martin Luther King, Jr., ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ (1963). keywords: massive resistance; nonviolent resistance; Satyagraha