For Wednesday, 9 March

Prep

• Martin Luther King, Jr., ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ (1963)
• Review 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’

Zoom Session

• Attendance
• Review: Semester Goals HW
• Review: Midterm Exam
• Overview: Annotated Bibliography HW
• Q&A: Racial Politics
• Reading Notes for Next Time

For Next Time

• 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’; ‘Labor Market Dynamics’; ‘Welfare’; ‘When Affirmative Action Wasn’t White’; ‘The Value of Inconvenient Facts’