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Requirements and Grading<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Regular attendance and participation in discussion are expected.<\/strong> This means always remaining current with at least the required readings for the day.\u00a0<\/b>Attendance counts for 10% and participation and blog posts combined account for 10% of the final grade.<\/p>\n

2. Reaction Essays.<\/strong> These are short, 1-3 page reaction essays which will count for 20% of the final grade. These brief essays are due NOT LATER THAN 10AM on the Tuesday in which we discuss the material (9 total). Students assigned to lead discussion of the week’s readings are not required to submit a reaction essay during the week in which they present. Also, students may elect to not submit a reaction essay one (1) week during the term.Preferably, blog posts should be submitted no later than Sunday evening by 5:00 pm prior to the coming week\u2019s session. A minimum of 10<\/u> blog posts are expected over the course of the semester.<\/p>\n

3. Discussion Leadership.<\/strong> Everyone is expected to sign up for one session of discussion leadership. These sessions will involve one of the major assigned books. Discussion leadership will count for 10% of the overall grade.<\/p>\n

4. There are two take-home examinations.<\/strong> The mid-term examination counts for 20% of the overall grade and the final examination counts for 30% of the overall grade. The exams are to type-written, double-spaced, with standard margins and font-size.<\/p>\n

NOTE REGARDING REACTION ESSAYS AND EXAMINATIONS:<\/strong> The reaction essays and take home examinations should reflect your own individual thought, work, and writing. While group discussion and exchange on course materials, ideas, and issues are strongly encouraged, it is essential and expected that all submitted written work reflect each students own individual effort.<\/p>\n

Grading Summary<\/strong><\/p>\n

Attendance \u00a0\u00a010%<\/strong><\/p>\n

Blog Posts and Participation \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a010%<\/strong><\/p>\n

Reaction Essays \u00a020%<\/strong><\/p>\n

Discussion Leadership 10% <\/strong><\/p>\n

Mid-term Take-Home Exam 20% <\/strong><\/p>\n

Final Take-home Exam 30%<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Class Meeting Schedule<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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September 8\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Introduction: Agenda, Themes, and Foundations<\/strong><\/p>\n

Morris, Scholar Denied<\/u> (Introduction, Chapters 1 and 2)<\/p>\n

Terry, Brandon. 2015. \u201cAfter Ferguson.\u201d The Point<\/u>.<\/p>\n

Wilson, William Julius. 2012. \u201cThe Declining Significance of<\/p>\n

Race: Revisited & Revised.\u201d Daedalus<\/u> 140(2): 55-69.<\/p>\n

Recommended<\/u>:<\/p>\n

Bobo, Lawrence D. and Camille Z. Charles. 2009. \u201cRace in the\u00a0America Mind: From the Moynihan Report to the ObamaCandidacy.\u201d Annals of the American Academy of Political and\u00a0<\/u>Social Science<\/u> 621(January): 243-259.<\/p>\n

Massey, Douglas S. 2012. \u201cThe Past & Future of Civil Rights.\u201dDaedalus<\/u> 140(2): 37-54.<\/p>\n

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September 15\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Du Bois, Sociology, & the Black Community<\/strong><\/p>\n

Du Bois, \u201cThe Study of Negro Problems,\u201d pp. 70-84.<\/p>\n

Du Bois, \u201cThe Atlanta Conferences,\u201d pp. 53-60.<\/p>\n

Du Bois, \u201cThe Conservation of Race\u201d pp. 238-250.<\/p>\n

Morris, Scholar Denied<\/u> (Chapters 3, 4, 5, and 6)<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
<\/td>\nRecommended<\/u>:<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nZuberi,<\/td>\nTukufu.<\/td>\n2000.<\/td>\n\u201cDeracializing\u00a0 Social\u00a0 Statistics:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\nProblems<\/td>\nin the Quantification of Race.\u201d Annals of<\/u><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\nthe\u00a0 American\u00a0 Academy\u00a0 of\u00a0 Political\u00a0 and\u00a0 Social<\/u><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\nScience<\/u> 568: 172-185.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nBobo,<\/td>\nLawrence.<\/td>\nD.\u00a0 2000.\u00a0 \u201cReclaiming\u00a0 a\u00a0 Du\u00a0 Boisian<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\nPerspective\u00a0 on<\/td>\nRacial\u00a0 Attitudes.\u201d\u00a0 Annals\u00a0 of\u00a0 the<\/u><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\nAmerican Academy of Political and Social Science<\/u><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n568: 186-202.<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nReaction Essay #1 Due<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
September 22<\/td>\nLegacies of the Philadelphia Negro and Dynamics of\u00a0<\/strong>Black Communities<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Hunter, Black City Makers<\/u> (entire)<\/p>\n

Morris, Scholar Denied<\/u> (Chapters 7 and 8)<\/p>\n

Reaction Essay #2 Due<\/strong><\/p>\n

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September 29\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Black Middle Class<\/strong><\/p>\n

Frazier, Black Bourgeoisie<\/u> (chapters 1,2,5,6, 9, 10)<\/p>\n

Du Bois, \u201cThe Talented Tenth\u201d (1903)<\/p>\n

Lacy, Karyn. 2004. \u201cBlack Spaces, Black Places: Strategic\u00a0Assimilation and Identity Construction in Middle-Class\u00a0Suburbia.\u201d Ethnic and Racial Studies<\/u> 27: 908-930.<\/p>\n

Pattillo, Mary. 2003. \u201cNegotiating Blackness, for Richer or for\u00a0Poorer.\u201d Ethnography<\/u> 4: 1-33<\/p>\n

Reaction Essay #3 Due<\/strong><\/p>\n

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October 6\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Negotiating Ghetto Poverty: Challenges for the Middle Class<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pattillo, Black Picket Fences<\/u> (entire)<\/p>\n

Reaction Essay #4 Due<\/strong><\/p>\n

** Take-Home Midterm Distributed (due 10\/14) **<\/strong><\/p>\n

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October 13\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No Class Meeting (Exam Completion)<\/strong><\/p>\n

**Exams Due at Professor Bobo\u2019s Barker Center (AAAS) Mailbox or Office by 10:00am on Wednesday 10\/14**<\/strong><\/p>\n

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October 20\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Negotiating Ghetto Poverty: Policing the Carceral State<\/strong><\/p>\n

Goffman, On The Run<\/u> (entire)<\/p>\n

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Reaction Essay #5 Due<\/strong><\/p>\n

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October 27\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Negotiating Ghetto Poverty: Health and Community<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ralph, Renegade Dreams<\/u> (entire)<\/p>\n

Williams, David R. 1999. \u201cRace, Socioeconomic Status, and<\/p>\n

Health: The Added Effects of Racism and Discrimination.\u201d Annals of the New York Academy<\/u> of Sciences<\/u> 896: 173-188.<\/p>\n

Recommended<\/u>:<\/p>\n

Geronimus, Arline T. 2001. \u201cUnderstanding and Eliminating<\/p>\n

Racial Inequalities in Women\u2019s Health in the UnitedStates: The Role of the Weathering Conceptual\u00a0Framework.\u201d Journal of the American Medical\u00a0<\/u>Women\u2019s Association<\/u> 56: 133-137.<\/p>\n

Massey, Douglas S. 2004. \u201cSegregation and Stratification: A Biosocial Perspective.\u201d Du Bois Review<\/u> 1: 7-26.<\/p>\n

Geronimus, Arline T. and J. Philip Thompson. 2004. \u201cTo Denigrate, Ignore, or Disrupt: Racial Inequality in Health and the Impact of a Policy-induced Breakdown of African American Communities.\u201d Du Bois Review<\/u> 1: 247-280.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Reaction Essay #6 Due<\/strong><\/p>\n

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November 3\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Structural Racial Inequality<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sharkey, Stuck in Place<\/u> (entire)<\/p>\n

Reaction Essay #7 Due<\/strong><\/p>\n

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November 10\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Black Family<\/strong><\/p>\n

Du Bois, \u201cThe Negro American Family,\u201d pp. 199-213.<\/p>\n

Du Bois, \u201cThe Negroes of Farmville, Virginia,\u201d pp. 165-196.<\/p>\n

Allen, Walter R. 1978. \u201cThe Search for Applicable Theories of\u00a0Black Family Life.\u201d Journal of Marriage and the<\/u>Family<\/u> 40: 117-129.<\/p>\n

Furstenberg, Frank F. 2009. \u201cIf Moynihan Had Only Known:\u00a0Race, Class, and Family Change in the Late\u00a0Twentieth Century.\u201d Annals of the American\u00a0<\/u>Academy of Political and Social Science<\/u> 621: 94-110.<\/p>\n

McClanahan, Sara. 2009. \u201cFragile Families and the Reproduction of Poverty.\u201d Annals of the American<\/u> Academy of Political and Social Science<\/u> 621: 111-131.<\/p>\n

Burton, Linda M. and M. Belinda Tucker. 2009. \u201cRomantic\u00a0Unions in an Era of Uncertainty: A Post-Moynihan\u00a0Perspective on African American Women and\u00a0Marriage.\u201d Annals of the American Academy of\u00a0<\/u>Political and Social Science<\/u> 621: 132-148.<\/p>\n

Reaction Essay #8 Due<\/strong><\/p>\n

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November 17\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dimensions of Inequality: Schooling and Education<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tyson, Integration Interrupted<\/u> (entire)<\/p>\n

Du Bois, \u201cDoes the Negro Need Separate Schools?\u201d (1935)<\/p>\n

Reaction Essay #9 Due<\/strong><\/p>\n

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November 24\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dimensions of Inequality: Wealth<\/strong><\/p>\n

Shapiro, The Hidden Cost of Being African American<\/u> (entire)<\/p>\n

Reaction Essay #10 Due<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

December 1\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Future of Race<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anderson, The Imperative of Integration<\/u> (entire)<\/p>\n

Reaction Essay #11 Due<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

** Take Home Final Examination Distributed (due 12\/13) **<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

**Exams Due at Professor Bobo\u2019s Barker Center (AAAS) Mailbox or Office by 5:00pm on Saturday, December 12<\/strong>th<\/sup><\/strong>**<\/strong><\/p>\n

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