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<p>Created page with &quot; &#039;&#039;&#039;Pavel Shlossberg&#039;&#039;&#039; This course examines the social construction of race through an exploration of white identity, both theoretically and empirically. Topics include the hi...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div><br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Pavel Shlossberg&#039;&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> This course examines the social construction of race through an exploration of white identity, both theoretically and empirically. Topics include the historical genesis of white identity; its intersection with political movements and organizations; the relation of whiteness to race, ethnicity, class, gender and nation; representations of whiteness in popular culture; the sociological mechanisms by which it is reproduced, negotiated, and contested.<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Required Books&#039;&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> 1. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States<br /> 2. Paula S. Rothenberg, White Privilege: Essential Readings on the Other Side of Racism<br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Schedule&#039;&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> Topic 1: Introduction<br /> <br /> Topic 2: Whiteness: the Power of Normative Invisibility<br /> <br /> Paula S. Rothenberg, “Introduction,” part 1, White Privilege: Essential Readings on the Other Side of Racism<br /> <br /> Topic 3: Whiteness as Structural Privilege<br /> <br /> Paula S. Rothenberg, “Introduction,” part 2.4, White Privilege: Essential Readings on the Other Side of Racism<br /> <br /> Tim Wise, chapters 1-2, Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and White<br /> <br /> Topic 4: Race: The Floating Signifier<br /> <br /> Stuart Hall, “Race, the Floating Signifier”<br /> <br /> Topic 5: Whiteness, Racial Formation, and the Politics of Privilege<br /> <br /> Michael Omi and Howard Winant, “Racial Formation,” and “Race and Reaction,” Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s<br /> <br /> Topic 6: Denial, “Reverse Racism,” and Other Ideologies of Whiteness<br /> <br /> Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, chapters 2-4, Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States<br /> <br /> Topic 7: Whiteness, Race, and the Media<br /> <br /> Robert Entman and David Rojecki, chapters 4-7, Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America<br /> <br /> Sut Jhally and Justin M. Lewis, chapters 1, 5-6, 8, Enlightened Racism: The Cosby Show, Audiences, and the Myth of the American Dream<br /> <br /> Topic 8: Whiteness as Cultural Capital<br /> <br /> Steve Garner, chapter 3, Whiteness: an Introduction<br /> <br /> Dalton Conley, selections, Honky<br /> <br /> Topic 9: White Privilege and Class Inequality: How (Some) Whites Lose Too …<br /> <br /> Martin Gilens, selections, Why Americans Hate Welfare: Race, Media, and the Politics of Antipoverty Policy<br /> <br /> Topic 10: The Historical Contingency of Whiteness<br /> <br /> Matthew Frye Jacobson, chapter 2, Whiteness of a Different Color<br /> <br /> Topic 11: Whiteness and the Power of Resistance<br /> <br /> Paula S. Rothenberg, “Introduction,” part 4, White Privilege: Essential Readings on the other Side of Racism</div>

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