Prep
- HW: Identify at least one way whiteness informs your major field of study or one of the classes in which you are currently enrolled. Explain precisely how racial domination is normalised; offer at least one consequence of this normalisation and advance at least one suggestion for how whiteness might be effectively confronted (almost verbatim from Desmond and Emirbayer 2016:279).
- Please see the prompt in the #invisibilityofwhiteness channel of our Slack workspace.
- Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2016), Ch. 7 (‘Education’): ‘Educational Inequality’; ‘Combating Educational Inequality: The Case of Affirmative Action’; ‘The Benefits of a Multicultural Learning Environment’
In Class Zoom Session
- TBA
For Next Time
- Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2016), Ch. 8 (‘Aesthetics’): ‘Race and Art in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century America’; ‘Racial Representation in Art’