Location: Stoddard G2
Time: Mondays from 7:30-9:00 p.m.
We will meet beginning on February 10. Students may earn one credit. Staff and faculty may audit.
2/10 Introduction
- Welcome and develop group norms
- Please read the following before class:
- Kendrick, “An Introduction to Nonviolent Communication“
- selection from So You Want To Talk About Race: “What is racism?” and “What if I talk about race wrong?”
2/17
- Erin Pineda lecture: “The Making of White Democracy: Race, Property, and Citizenship in America”
- Please read the following before class (note page numbers):
Joel Olson, “Introducing: White Democracy,” in The Abolition of White Democracy (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004), p. xi-xxiv.
Cheryl Harris, “Whiteness as Property,” in Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed the Movement, edited by Kimberle Chrenshaw, Neil Gotanda, Gary Peller, and Kendall Thomas (New York: The New Press, 1995), p. 276-287.
2/24
- Rob Dorit lecture: “The Biology of Human Diversity”
- Please read the following before class:
- Chakravarti, “Perspectives on Human Variation through the Lens of Diversity and Race“
- Byrd and Hughey, “Biological Determinism and Racial Essentialism: The Ideological Double Helix of Racial Inequality“
- Yudell, DeSalle, and Tishkoff, “Taking Race Out of Human Genetics“
3/2 (Cancelled for illness)
- Christen Mucher lecture: “Fundamentally White Supremacist: Connecting Race and Citizenship through Annihilation, Naturalization, Colonization, and Immigration” [rescheduled to 4/20]
3/9
- Floyd Cheung lecture: “Asian Americans and the Law”
- Please read the following before class: selection from Angelo Ancheta, Race, Rights, and the Asian American Experience [content warning: physical violence on p. 7-; n-word quoted on p. 10; racism throughout]
3/16 and 23 NO CLASS – Spring Break + Covid Prep
3/30
- Rachel Rubinstein guest lecture: “Racial Confusion: Jewishness, Racial Formation, and the Many Faces of Antisemitism”
- Please read “Understanding Antisemitism” before class
4/6
- Daphne Lamothe lecture: “The Black Lives Matter Movement and the Legacy of the Combahee River Collective”
- Please read the following before class:
- Combahee River Collective, “A Black Feminist Statement“
- Jordan, “Report from the Bahamas, 1982“
- the “About” section of the Movement for Black Lives website
4/13
- Jen Malkowski lecture “No Such Thing as Neutral: Racism and Technology Design”
- Please read the following before class: Noble, Safiya Umoja. “A Society, Searching.” In Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, 15-34, 56-63. New York: NYU Press, 2018.
4/20
- Christen Mucher lecture: “Fundamentally White Supremacist: Connecting Race and Citizenship through Annihilation, Naturalization, Colonization, and Immigration”
- Please read the following before class:
1) The Naturalization Act of 1790 https://id.lib.harvard.edu/curiosity/immigration-to-the-united-states-1789-1930/39-990083122310203941
2) Andrew Jackson, “Indian Talk” pages 4-6 https://archive.org/details/documentsproceed00indi/page/4
3) Membership Certificate to the American Colonization Society c1840
4) The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, articles VIII, IX, X, XI
4/27
- Jina Kim lecture: “Race and the Disability Justice Movement.”
- Please consider reading the following optional texts before class:
- Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s “Cripping the Apocalypse: Some of my Wild Disability Justice Dreams”
- Patty Berne’s “Disability Justice–A Working Draft”
Recording only (rescheduled from 3/23)
- Javier Puente lecture: “Columbus Must Fall: Colonialism, Race, and Contemporary Revolt in the Americas”
- Please read the following before class: Quijano and Ennis, “Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism, and Latin America“