APA Committees

RACE AND MORAL RECOGNITION

RACE AND MORAL RECOGNITION, PHRP 3417 SPRING, 2000 Prof. Walker

Office: 127 Collins Hall; Phone 718-817-3284, Voice Mail
Office Hours: Monday 11:00-12:30, Thursday 2:30-4:30, and By Appointment

REQUIRED TEXTS (at Campus Bookstore):
Naomi Zack, Thinking About Race (Wadsworth)
Naomi Zack, American Mixed Race (Rowman & Littlefield)
Linda Bell & David Blumenfeld, Overcoming Racism and Sexism (Rowman & Littlefield)
Charles Mills, The Racial Contract (Cornell)
J. Harvey, Civilized Oppression (Rowman & Littlefield)

COURSE OBJECTIVE: To explore the ways racial classification, racial stereotypes, and thinking of people as raced affects moral understanding of the humanity, equality, dignity, responsibility, and moral worth of individuals and communities.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS
>Regular Attendance (>4 unexcused absences lowers grade one step)
>Readiness and Reading Preparation to participate in class discussion
>Midterm Essay Exam, in class Tuesday, 2/29
>1 Class Presentation on U.S. race relations involving particular groups, based on factual, narrative, or historical sources (see Some Suggested Sources, attached)
>1 Final Essay (8 -10 pages) on ethical analysis of an aspect of racism, race relations, or racial categorization with personal, social, or political implications for change;
>Suggested: Attendance at Prof. Narayan lecture, Wed. 2/16, 12:30pm, Walsh Library

COURSE TOPICS AND READINGS
I. Introductory Discussion: Why does race matter?
II. What is Race?: [a] Zack, TAR, Intro + Chapters 1 & 2; [b] Goldberg, AMC;
[c] Zack, TAR, 3 Mixed Race; Graham, AMC; Fernandez, AMC;
[d] Belonging & Identity, Root, AMC and Hershel AMC;
II Ethnicity: Zack, TAR, 4 and Shrage, AMC; Zack, TAR, 5 and Moore, AMC;

III. Are there races? B & B, Overcoming Racism & Sexism, Ch. 4 & 5, Appiah & Outlaw

IV. Racism: [a] Zack, TAR, 5 and 11, What is racism?
[a] How does racism feel? B & B ORS, Ch. 3 Barry+ Houston, and 17, Shelton;
[b] Anger: B&B, ORS, Ch. 14, Lugones and 15, Hartfield;
[c] Sharing Feelings: B&B, ORS, Ch. 12, Spelman and Zack, TAR, 9 Race and Gender
[d] Whiteness & Identity: Zack, Chapters 7
[e], Whiteliness: B& B, ORS, Chs 7, Frye & 8, Davion

V. Class Presentations: Linked Readings in Zack, American Mixed Race

VI. Charles Mills, The Racial Contract
[a] Mills, Part I, pp. 9-40; [b] Mills, Part II, pp. 41-62; and 62-89; [c] Mills, III, 91-133.

VII. Our Everyday Dealings: Harvey, Civilized Oppression
[a] Humor, Relationships Chapters 1 & 2; [b] Power and Protest, Chapters 3 & 4
[c] Victim-blaming, Chapter 5; [d] Apologies, Chapter 7
Some Suggested Resources (See also extensive Chapter bibliographies in Zack)
Richard Delgado ed., Critical Race Theory HT 1521.C75
Naomi Zack, American Mixed Race E184.A1 A58
Studs Terkel, Race E184 .A1 T43
Andrew Hacker, Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal E185.615.H23
Jonathan Kozol, Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools LC4091.K69
Matt Wray and Annalee Newitz, White Trash: Race and Class in America E184.A1.W397
Vicki L. Ruiz and Ellen C. DuBois ed., Unequal Sisters: A Multicultural Reader HQ 1410.U54
Gloria Anzaldua ed., Haciendo Caras/Making Face/ Making Soul PS 509 .F44 M35
Mary Romero, Maid in the USA HD6072.2.U5 (LC)
Richard Rodriguez, Hunger of Memory F870.M5 R62
Patricia Williams, The Alchemy of Race and Rights E185.616.W49
Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts CT275.K5764 A3
Jamaica Kincaid, The Annie John Stories or Lucy PR6061.I6L8
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Colored People P529.G28
Mary Crow Dog, Lakota Woman E99.D1C7 (LC)
Vine DeLoria, Custer Died For Your Sins: an Indian Manifesto E467.1.C99
Winthrop Jordan, White Over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812 E 185.J67
John Blassingame, The Slave Community: plantation life in the antebellum South E443.B55
Melton McLaurin, Celia, A Slave HV 6783.C45 M34
Slave Narratives
John Langston Gwaltney ed. Drylongso: A Self-Portrait of Black America E185.86 .D77
Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Southern Honor, Ethics and Behavior in the Old South F209.W9
Lillian Smith, Killers of the Dream PZ3.S6536
W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk E185.5 D82
Franz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks HT 1521.F35
Gordon Allport, The Nature of Prejudice BF 575 P9 A38
Howard McGary and Bill E. Lawson, Between Slavery and Freedom E444.M38
Olive P. Dickason, The Myth of the Savage and the Beginnings of French Colonialism in the Americas (University of Alberta Press -- available to Xerox parts)
Edna Kenton ed., The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels & Explorations of the Jesuit Missionaries in North America (1610-1791) F1030.J585 1925
Bartolome de Las Casas, In Defense of the Indians F1411.H28
Peter Nabokov, Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations From Prophecy to the Present, 1492-1992. E93.N3
Vine DeLoria, Red Earth, white lies: Native Americans & the myth of scientific fact E98.F6 D35.
Trin T. Minh-Ha, Woman, Native, Other PN 471.T75
Uma Narayan, Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism HQ 1870.9.N37
Edward Said, Orientalism DS12.S24
bell hooks, Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics E185.86 .H662
Liu, Eric. The Accidental Asian: notes of a native speaker E184.C5 L62
Lott, Juanita Tamayo, AsianAmerican: from racial category to multiple identities E184.06 L68
Lee, Josephine Ding, Performing Asian America: race & ethnicity on the contemp stage PS338.A74