Author: George Murray

Prep

• Rafael A. Mangual, ‘Everything You Don’t Know About Mass Incarceration’, City Journal (Summer 2019)

In Class

• Attendance
• Video: 13th (Ava DuVernay, 2016 [1:40:42]). Netflix has apparently made this available for free on YouTube, so I urge you to preview it before class as well—two viewings are better more thought-provoking than one!
• Reading Notes for Next Time

For Next Time

• Audio: ‘Legal Scholar: Jim Crow Still Exists In America’ (2012). An interview with Michelle Alexander

Prep

• Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2020), Ch. 6 (‘Crime and Punishment’): ‘Crime’; ‘Punishment’; ‘Things Are Not What They Seem’. keywords: code of the street, the (pp. 210-11); ecological dissimilarity (p. 210); informal social control (p. 210); structural disadvantage (p. 210); symbolic violence (p. 208); underground economy (p. 203); white-collar crime (p. 205).
  

In Class

• Attendance
• Q&A
• Reading Notes for Next Time

For Next Time

• Video: 13th (Ava DuVernay, 2016 [1:40:42]). Netflix has apparently made this available for free on YouTube!

Prep

• Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2020), Ch. 6 (‘Crime and Punishment’): ‘The Rise of the American Prison’; ‘Fear’. keywords: neoliberalism; prison-industrial complex (see the citation of Eric Schlosser’s essay of the same name, p. 191, n. 11); racial terrorism (2020:187).
  

In Class

• Attendance
• Q&A
• Reading Notes for Next Time

For Next Time

• Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2020), Ch. 6 (‘Crime and Punishment’): ‘Crime’; ‘Punishment’; ‘Things Are Not What They Seem’. keywords: code of the street, the (pp. 210-11); ecological dissimilarity (p. 210); informal social control (p. 210); recidivism; structural disadvantage (p. 210); symbolic violence (p. 208); underground economy (p. 203); white-collar crime (p. 205).

Prep

• Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2020), Ch. 5 (‘Housing’): ‘The City’; ‘The Suburbs’; ‘Rural America’; ‘Towards an Integrated America’

In Class

• Attendance
• Q&A
• Reading Notes for Next Time

For Next Time

• Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2020), Ch. 6 (‘Crime and Punishment’): ‘The Rise of the American Prison’; ‘Fear’

Prep

We didn’t really dig into the first half of Ch. 5. So no new reading for tomorrow.

• Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2020), Ch. 5 (‘Housing’): ‘Racial Struggles over Residence in Twentieth-Century America’; Racial Segregation’

• 1. Why do Desmond and Emirbayer claim that ‘African Americans are the only group in the history of the United States that have experienced ghettoization’ (Desmond and Emirbayer 2016:189)? What defines a ghetto, for them?
  2. ‘”All society is implicated in the creation of the ghetto.” Reflecting on your upbringing, how might this statement apply to you? That is, how might you be contributing to the racial segregation and the reproduction of the ghetto?’ (from Desmond and Emirbayer 2016:201).

In Class

• Attendance
• ASA Style
• Q&A
• Reading Notes for Next Time

For Next Time

• Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2020), Ch. 5 (‘Housing’): ‘The City’; ‘The Suburbs’; ‘Rural America’; ‘Towards an Integrated America’

Prep

• Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2020), Ch. 5 (‘Housing’): ‘Racial Struggles over Residence in Twentieth-Century America’; Racial Segregation’

• 1. Why do Desmond and Emirbayer claim that ‘African Americans are the only group in the history of the United States that have experienced ghettoization’ (Desmond and Emirbayer 2016:189)? What defines a ghetto, for them?
  2. ‘”All society is implicated in the creation of the ghetto.” Reflecting on your upbringing, how might this statement apply to you? That is, how might you be contributing to the racial segregation and the reproduction of the ghetto?’ (from Desmond and Emirbayer 2016:201).

In Class

• Attendance
• REVIEW: Annotated Bibliography Assignment
• Q&A: TBA
• Reading Notes for Next Time

For Next Time

• Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2020), Ch. 5 (‘Housing’): ‘The City’; ‘The Suburbs’; ‘Rural America’; ‘Towards an Integrated America’

Prep

• Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2020), Ch. 4 (‘Economics’): ‘Labor Market Dynamics’; ‘Welfare’; ‘When Affirmative Action Wasn’t White’; ‘The Value of Inconvenient Facts’

In Class

• Attendance
• REVIEW: Midterm Take-Home Essay Exam
• Reading Notes for Next Time

For Next Time

• Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2020), Ch. 5 (‘Housing’): ‘Racial Struggles over Residence in Twentieth-Century America’; Racial Segregation’

Prep

• Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2020), Ch. 4 (‘Economics’): ‘Economic Racism from the New Deal to Reaganomics’; ‘Income and Wealth Disparities’; Chasing the American Dream’

In Class

• Attendance
• Q&A: TBA
• Review: Midterm Take-Home Essay Exam
• Reading Notes for Next Time

For Next Time

• Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2020), Ch. 4 (‘Economics’): ‘Labor Market Dynamics’; ‘Welfare’; ‘When Affirmative Action Wasn’t White’; ‘The Value of Inconvenient Facts’

Prep

• Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2020), Ch. 3 (‘Politics’): ‘Partisanship and Representation’; ‘Voting’; ‘Elections and Implicit Racial Appeals’; ‘The Longing for Color-Blind Politics’

In Class

• Attendance
• Q&A: TBA
• Reading Notes for Next Time

For Next Time

• Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2020), Ch. 4 (‘Economics’): ‘Economic Racism from the New Deal to Reaganomics’; ‘Income and Wealth Disparities’; Chasing the American Dream’
• Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2020), Ch. 4 (‘Economics’): ‘Labor Market Dynamics’; ‘Welfare’; ‘When Affirmative Action Wasn’t White’; ‘The Value of Inconvenient Facts’

Prep

• Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2020), Ch. 3 (‘Politics’): ‘The Civil Rights Movement’; ‘Backlash’

In Class

• Attendance
• Q&A: TBA
• Reading Notes for Next Time

For Next Time

• Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2020), Ch. 3 (‘Politics’): ‘Partisanship and Representation’; ‘Voting’; ‘Elections and Implicit Racial Appeals’; ‘The Longing for Color-Blind Politics’