Check
this page REGULARLY.
The schedule will change frequently.
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Complete
readings and listen to audio assignments before class
on the date assigned.
NOTE:
LINKS TO MOST READINGS WORK ONLY AFTER YOU ARE LOGGED INTO
D2L!!! |
| week |
TUESDAY |
THURSDAY
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Go to Previous
Weeks |
| Part
1: The Social Construction of Race and the Origins of
Current Institutions -- meet
in Molinaro 322 |
| Part
2: Community Dialogues on Poverty and Race |
| FOR
THESE 5 CLASSES WE WILL MEET IN THE GALBRAITH ROOM in the
CHANCELLOR'S AREA. All 5 of these classes are Absolutely Required!!
Go
to the ELEVATOR across from the BOOKSTORE and go up to the
3RD FLOOR. Be on time!
We
will be joined by members of Racine and Kenosha communities.
Roseann Mason, Director of Community Dialogues and Ron Thomas,
United Way of Racine will help facilitate these conversations. |
| June 24/26 |
Community
Dialogues -- GALBRAITH ROOM -- Participate in the D2L discussion
after the class.
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Community
Dialogues -- GALBRAITH ROOM -- Participate in the D2L
discussion after the class.
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| July 1/3 |
Community
Dialogues -- GALBRAITH ROOM -- Participate in the D2L discussion
after the class. |
Community
Dialogues -- GALBRAITH ROOM -- Participate in the D2L discussion
after the class. |
| July 8 |
Community
Dialogues-- GALBRAITH ROOM -- Participate in the D2L discussion
after the class. |
Thursday,
July 10 -- Back in Molinaro 322 -- See Below. |
| Part
3: Continuing Patterns in African American Experience |
| July 10 |
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| July 15/17 |
READING:
DuBois,
W.E.B. 1903. Chapter II. Of the Dawn of Freedom From The
Souls of Black Folk
CONCEPTS:
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Continued
discussion of bell hooks and W.E.B. DuBois
Concepts:
Institutionalized
Racism |
| July 22 |
Test
1
Film
shown in class: The road to Brown: the untold story of "the
man who killed Jim Crow" / University of Virginia.
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : California Newsreel, c1990.
University of Wisconsin--Parkside Library
Call Number: E185.61 .R63 1990 |
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| Part
4: African American Sociological Thought |
| July 24 |
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| July 29/31 |
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Eckholm,
Erik. 2006. "Plight Deepens for Black Men, Studies Warn."
New York Times, March 20.
McBride,
Dwight A. 2005. "African American Studies and the Invisible
Black Gay Man." Chronicle of Higher Education: February
4.
Flores,
Terry. 2006 "Black Infant Death Rate Soars." Kenosha
News: March 13, 2006. |
| Aug. 5/7 |
Work
on Test 2 |
Test
2 Due -- at Midnight -- in the D2L Drop Box. |
| Previous
weeks |
| June
17 |
Welcome!
Syllabus, Requirements, and Overview of the course.
Video
(in class): Race, the Power of an Illusion.
CONCEPTS:
- social
construction of reality;
- social
institution
We
will walk up to the Galbraith Room to see where it is. |
READING:
Slavery
in America: Historical Overview (HINT: Before printing
this document, change the page set-up to "landscape"
rather than "Portrate".)
NOTE:
For 246 years, from 1617 to 1863, it was legal, in the U.S.,
to enslave African Americans.
Video
(in class): more of Race, the Power of an Illusion.
CONCEPTS:
- social
change
- definition
of the situation
- social
institution
- blaming
the victim
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