SOC 650. Race, Ethnicity & Gender

Causes, processes, theoretical explanations of racism, sexism, discrimination. Possible solutions. Inter group relations from global perspective.

This course is designed to provide you with 1) a firm understanding of the development and trajectory of thinking about race and ethnicity in Sociology as a discipline, and to acquaint you with some of the finest thinking about race and 2) a grasp of the racialization process and outcomes in the United States and around the world. In general, this course is US focused; however, we will be looking and thinking about race at a global level because race is constructed at a global level, lived at this level, played out at this level. . This course is designed to not only give you a firm understanding of the theories that guide most research conducted about race/racialization processes today, but to help you think through how you can make sense of this in your own work here and in the future.
 

Resources

Frederickson, George M. 2002. Racism: A Short History. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
 
Roediger, David R. 2005. Working Towards Whiteness: How America’s Immigrants Became White, The Strange Journey From Ellis Island to the Suburbs. New York: Basic Book.
 
Smith, Andrea. 2005. Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide.  Boston: South End Press.
 
Telles, Edward E. 2004. Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
 
Winant, Howard. 2001. The World is a Ghetto: Race and Democracy Since World War II.  New York: Basic Books.