Author: George Murray

Prep

• White House Memo on Critical Race Theory (20 September 2020). keywords: critical race theory; racism; white privilege.

Zoom Session

1. Q&A: Attendance/Introductions/Review of the Assigned Reading
2. Format of the Class
   • Blackboard
   • Course Website
   • Slack
   • Google Docs
3. Review of the Syllabus

For Next Time

• HW: Semester Goals HW
• Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2016), Ch. 1 (‘Race in the Twenty-First Century’): ‘A Cancer’; ‘American Racism in the Twenty-First Century’

Prep

• TBA

In Class

• Attendance/Introductions

For Next Time

• TBA

Prep

• Due 5/17, 23:59: Final Exam
• Desmond and Emirbayer (2016), Ch. 11 (‘Toward Racial Democracy’): ‘What Are the Goals?’; How Do We Bring About Change?’; ‘We Who Believe in Freedom’

In Class Zoom Session

• Once More into the Breach: The Invisibility of Whiteness

For Next Time

• Complete all unfinished work and turn it in.

Prep

• Kyle D. Stedman, ‘Annoying Ways People Use Sources’, Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Vol. 2 (2011)
• Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2016), Ch. 8 (‘Aesthetics’): ‘The Racialization of Art Worlds’; ‘Cultural Appropriation’; ‘The Sociology of Art, the Art of Sociology’

In Class Zoom Session

• Q&A: Racist vs. Antiracist Cultural Appropriation
• Once More into the Breach: The Invisibility of Whiteness

For Next Time

• Desmond and Emirbayer (2016), Ch. 11 (‘Toward Racial Democracy’): ‘What Are the Goals?’; How Do We Bring About Change?’; ‘We Who Believe in Freedom’

If you haven’t yet joined in the conversation in the #invisibilityofwhiteness channel on our Slack workspace, you really need to take some time to make a thoughtful response to the prompt I posted there last week. I will not credit any responses after this week.

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 Emirbayer2016:279).
• Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2016), Ch. 8 (‘Aesthetics’): ‘Race and Art in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century America’; ‘Racial Representation in Art’

In Class Zoom Session

• TBA

For Next Time

• Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2016), Ch. 8 (‘Aesthetics’): ‘The Racialization of Art Worlds’; ‘Cultural Appropriation’; ‘The Sociology of Art, the Art of Sociology’

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’

Prep

• Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2016), Ch. 7 (‘Education’): ‘“I Have a Right to Think!”: ‘Racial Battles over Education, 1900-1970’; ‘Whiteness in Education’
  • 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). You don’t need to submit this, but hold on to your notes on this and have them to hand for our Zoom session Monday.

In Class Zoom Session

• TBA

For Next Time

• 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’

Prep

• Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2016), Ch. 6 (‘Crime and Punishment’): ‘Crime’; ‘Punishment’; ‘Things Are Not What They Seem’

• In Class
• Review: The Prison-Industrial Complex
• Discussion: Crime and Punishment

For Next Time

• Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2016), Ch. 7 (‘Education’): ‘“I Have a Right to Think!”: ‘Racial Battles over Education, 1900-1970’; ‘Whiteness in Education’

Prep

• Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2016), Ch. 6 (‘Crime and Punishment’): ‘The Rise of the American Prison’; ‘Fear’

In Class (Zoom Session)

1. Attendance
2. TBA
3. For Next Time

For Next Time

• Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2016), Ch. 6 (‘Crime and Punishment’): ‘Crime’; ‘Punishment’; ‘Things Are Not What They Seem’

For those of you who were unable to log in during our first scheduled Zoom meeting, I will try to upload the recordings shortly. Wednesday’s meeting will be asynchronous, meaning that we’ll all likely be logging in (to Slack) and discussing the material at different times over the next twenty-four hours or so.

Prep

• Kevin M. Kruse, ‘What does a traffic jam in Atlanta have to do with segregation? Quite a lot’. New York Times Magazine (14 August)

In Class

Rather than meeting online at a given time Wednesday, you have two days to do the assigned reading as well as review Chapter 5 in our textbook, then join the online, ongoing chat in Slack. Detailed instructions for the exercise can be found HERE.

For Next Time

• Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2016), Ch. 6 (‘Crime and Punishment’): ‘The Rise of the American Prison’; ‘Fear’