Prep
- Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2016), Ch. 3 (‘Politics’): ‘The Civil Rights Movement’; ‘Backlash’; ‘Partisanship and Representation’; ‘Voting’; ‘Elections and Implicit Racial Appeals’; ‘The Longing for Color-Blind Politics’. keywords: black organising tradition, the; Moynihan Report, the (p. 107); sharecropping (pp. 91-92); Southern Strategy, the (pp. 106-7).
- Attendance
- Headlines: Ethnic Cleansing, Freaks of Nature, etc.
- Q&A
- Reading Notes for Next Time
For Next Time
- Martin Luther King, Jr., ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ (1963)
- Audio: ‘In defense of white-backlash politics’, Vox Conversations (15 April 2019)