Prep
- Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2016), Ch. 4 (‘Economics’): ‘Economic Racism from the New Deal to Reaganomics’; ‘Income and Wealth Disparities’; Chasing the American Dream’
- Prelude: Looking Ahead to Some Issues in ‘Race and Art in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century America’ (Ch. 8)
- Attendance
- Overview: Midterm Take-Home Essay Exam
- Q&A: The Invisibility of Whiteness
- Snowballing Backwards
- Example: David Canon’s Study of Race and Representation (Desmond and Emirbayer 2016:112-13)
- Reading Notes for Next Time
For Next Time
- Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2016), Ch. 4 (‘Economics’): ‘Labor Market Dynamics’; ‘Welfare’; ‘When Affirmative Action Wasn’t White’; ‘The Value of Inconvenient Facts’