AAS 355/GGS 354 / spring 2018
Course Assignments

NOTE:
You must also study any images that may be present in a reading. (If there are captions then summarize them in your notes.) Check if a reading has subheadings; if they are present use them as a guide to organize your notes. With rare exception, I will not ask you about dates and names of places. Instead, what you should concentrate on is the "what," and the "why," and the implications / consequences.  In case of definitions, obviously concentrate on the main elements of the definition. If there are images in the definition, then study those too. Important: Any reading assignment written by me should be considered an extension of class lectures and therefore must take precedence over other assigned materials.<-- Read this sentence again.


  1. *Explaining Race/Racism: Past and Present 

    1(a) Enslavement: The Past and the Present

  2. *Definition of "Racism/Racism" in the Course of Glossary  (Instructor's Notes) 

  3. Reading CRN-14

  4. Slide Images (downloadable) Note: Scroll down Part H of Online Course Materials to find this link.

  5. Race: Basic Concepts I: Reading no. RBC-2 of Part A of Online Course Materials.

  6. Race: Basic Concepts II: Reading no. RBC-3 of Part A of Online Course Materials.

  7.  Race in United States: Theoretical Perspectives

  8. Race--Psychology of Prejudice: Reading no. RBC-2(b) of Part A of Online Course Materials. 

  9. *Website on News and Statistics on Hate in the U.S. 

  10. Critical Race Theory: Reading no. RBC-4(b) of Part A of Online Course Materials.

  11. Racial Formation Theory: Reading no. RBC-8 of Part A of Online Course Materials.

  12. *Ethnicism (as a Proxy for Racism) in Asia 

  13. *Ethnic Violence in the World in 2018

  14. *Race and U.S. Foreign Affairs

  15. Tudor, English and Black...  

  16. Film Review: Dunkirk (This item is about the film's racism by deliberate omission--textual erasure. Marginalization through the quest for verisimilitude)

  17. Film Review: Darkest Hour (About the racism of Churchill)

  18. Definition of "Stereotypes" in the Course Glossary  (Instructor's Notes)  

  19. Stereotypes of the Irish: Reading no. RW-15 of Part A of Online Course Materials.

  20. MLK's Final Message  (audio) 

  21. MLK's Class Struggle (the fight against poverty, and militarism)

  22. *Stratification Theory and Class

  23. *Class theory chart: Reading CG-3(a)  of Part A of Online Course Materials.

  24.  Class, Wealth and Power: Reading CW/CS-1 of Part A of Online Course Materials.  (Also visit author's website)

  25. *Socially Responsible Capitalism: Readings packet CW/CS-30 of Part A of Online Course Materials.

  26. *Definition of "Class" in the Course Glossary   (Instructor's Notes)

    *26 (a) Class versus Race 


  27. *Definition of "Objective Interests" in the Course Glossary  (Instructor's Notes)

  28. Cellphones, and Cancer (about class warfare) (audio)

  29. *Definition of "Meritocracy" In the Course Glossary  (Instructor's Notes)

  30. *Definition of "Social Safety Net" in the Course Glossary  (Instructor's Notes)

  31. The Murders of the Osage (audio)

  32. Definition of "Military Industrial Complex" in the Course Glossary  (Instructor's Notes)

  33. Definition of "Patriarchy" in the Course Glossary  (Instructor's Notes. Note: Also follow all the links that appear in the definition)

  34. *Feminism and Feminist Theory

  35. Black Feminism and Intersectionality Theory

  36. *Sexism and Misogyny in Music Land

  37. Socialization--Misogynystic Music and Sexual Behavior: Reading GVM-1 of Part A of Online Course Materials   

  38. *Race and Music: Reading RW-8 of Part A of Online Course Materials   

  39. *Sexual Violence in the Military: Fact Sheet  
     
  40. *Sexual Violence in the Military (Missing from the #MeToo Movement) 

  41. Intimate Partner Violence- I

  42. *Intimate Partner Violence - II 

  43. Patriarchy: Reading G2 of Part A of Online Course Materials.

  44. *Definition of "Patriarchy" in the Course Glossary  (Instructor's Notes)

  45. Anita Hill /Clarence Thomas

  46. Conservatism of Clarence Thomas 

  47. Title IX and the Civil Rights Movement

  48. Police Violence against Black Women

  49. Patriarchy and the U.S. Prison System

  50. *Access to Feminine Hygiene Products and Human Rights

  51. Intersectionality and Sexual Violence 

  52. Race, Gender, and Epistemological Marginalization