Prep
- Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2020), Ch. 1 (‘Race in the Twenty-First Century’): ‘A Cancer’; ‘American Racism in the Twenty-First Century’; ‘A Biological Reality?’; ‘Whiteness’; ‘Race Is a Social Reality’; ‘Ethnicity and Nationality’; Thinking Like a Sociologist’
In Class
- Attendance
- Q&A: TBA
- Reading Notes for Next Time
For Next Time
- Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2020), Ch. 2 (‘The Invention of Race’): ‘Modernity Rising’; ‘Colonization of the Americas’; ‘The Invention of Whiteness and Blackness’; ‘Africans Enslaved’. One of the central themes for this chapter is the way in which the racial categories we use today – ‘whites’, ‘blacks’, ‘Indians’, Asian-Americans – forced markedly disparate ethnic groups into the same cramped shoeboxes.
