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Prep

• 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’

Zoom Session

• Attendance
• Review: Instructions for the Midterm
  • A Note on the Clichés of Undergraduate Writing
• Q&A: Education in a Multicultural Society
• Reading Notes for Next Time

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’. keywords: antiracist aesthetic, minstrelsy; the; multiculturalism; racist aesthetic, the; white aesthetic, the.

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’

Zoom Session

• Attendance
• Whiteness in the Curriculum
• Review: Instructions for the Midterm
  • A Note on the Clichés of Undergraduate Writing
  • ASA Style
• Reading Notes for Next Time

For Next Time

• 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’

Prep

• Kay S. Hymowitz, ‘Did Mass Incarceration Destroy the Black Family?’, City Journal (Summer 2015)

Zoom Session

• Attendance
• Q&A: The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration
• Review: Instructions for the Midterm
  • A Note on the Clichés of Undergraduate Writing
  • ASA Style
• Reading Notes for Next Time

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

I think my instructions for 11/3 were muddled, unfortunately–you were meant to read the first half of Chapter 6 in our textbook by then. In any event, you need to read Chapter 6 of our textbook (‘Crime and Punishment’), review the assigned audiovisual material, and then weigh in on Slack.

• Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2016), Ch. 6 (‘Crime and Punishment’): ‘Crime’; ‘Punishment’; ‘Things Are Not What They Seem’
• Video: 13th (Ava DuVernay, 2016 [1:40:42]). Netflix has apparently made this available for free on YouTube.
• Audio: ‘Legal Scholar: Jim Crow Still Exists In America’
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• HW: A young man is found guilty of possessing 5 grams of crack cocaine and is therefore eligible to serve a minimum sentence of five years in prison. This is his first offense. Assuming the role of the judge with absolute sentencing powers—and pretending for a moment that judges are not bound by draconian mandatory minimum sentencing cues—offer an alternative to incarceration. That is, what other punishment, besides prison, might be suitable in this case? And why would it be preferable to the conventional sentence of incarceration? (Verbatim from Desmond and Emirbayer 2016:243). Review the assigned material and post your response in the #discussion-prompts channel I’ve just created on our Slack workspace.

Zoom Session

• Attendance
• Review: Last Week’s Asynchronous Work
• Q&A: Crime and Punishment
• Reading Notes for Next Time

For Next Time

• Kay S. Hymowitz, ‘Did Mass Incarceration Destroy the Black Family?’, City Journal (Summer 2015)

Prep

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

Asynchronous Work

• TBA

For Next Time

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

Prep

• Lennie Irvin, ‘What Is “Academic” Writing?’, in Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing (Parlor Press, 2010). Keywords: analysis (pp. 10-); argument (pp. 9-10); inference (p. 8); open writing assignment, the; opinion (p. 10); synthesis; thesis; types of writing assignments (closed, semi-open, open).

Zoom Session

• Attendance
• Review: Snowballing Backwards
• Review: Midterm Exam
  • The Word Count: Getting to 1,000
  • Getting below 1,001
• Reading Notes for Next Time

For Next Time

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

Note:  There will not be a Zoom session this Wednesday. Instead, we’ll be doing asynchronous work. Details to follow.

Prep

• Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2016), Ch. 5 (‘Housing’): ‘The City’; ‘The Suburbs’; ‘Rural America’; ‘Towards an Integrated America’

Zoom Session

• Attendance
• Q&A: Ghettoization; Ethnic Segregation; Environmental Racism
• Opening Question: Where might we find examples of the ‘invisibility of whiteness’ in today’s reading?
• Review: Midterm Take-Home Essay Exam
• Review: ASA Style
• Reading Notes for Next Time

For Next Time

• Lennie Irvin, ‘What Is “Academic” Writing?’, in Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing (Parlor Press, 2010). Keywords: analysis (pp. 10-); argument (pp. 9-10); inference (p. 8); open writing assignment, the; opinion (p. 10); synthesis; thesis; types of writing assignments (closed, semi-open, open). 

Prep

• Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2016), Ch. 5 (‘Housing’): ‘Racial Struggles over Residence in Twentieth-Century America’; ‘Racial Segregation’

Zoom Session

• Attendance
• TBA
• Reading Notes for Next Time

For Next Time

• Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2016), Ch. 5 (‘Housing’): ‘The City’; ‘The Suburbs’; ‘Rural America’; ‘Towards an Integrated America’

Prep

• Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2016), Ch. 4 (‘Economics’): ‘Labor Market Dynamics’; ‘Welfare’; ‘When Affirmative Action Wasn’t White’; ‘The Value of Inconvenient Facts’

Zoom Session

• Attendance
• Snowballing Backwards
• Reading Notes for Next Time

For Next Time

• Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2016), Ch. 5 (‘Housing’): ‘Racial Struggles over Residence in Twentieth-Century America’; ‘Racial Segregation’

Prep

• 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’

Zoom Session

• Prelude: Looking Ahead to Some Issues in ‘Race and Art in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century America’ (Ch. 8)
• Attendance
• Overview: Midterm Take-Home Essay Exam
  • Q&A: The Invisibility of Whiteness
• Snowballing Backwards
  • Example: David Canon’s Study of Race and Representation (Desmond and Emirbayer 2016:112-13)
• Reading Notes for Next Time

For Next Time

• Matthew Desmond and Mustafa Emirbayer (2016), Ch. 4 (‘Economics’): ‘Labor Market Dynamics’; ‘Welfare’; ‘When Affirmative Action Wasn’t White’; ‘The Value of Inconvenient Facts’