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Assessment: 100% coursework

Required Reading

Perennial Hatreds?: Race in the Ancient world

• Kennedy, R. F., Roy, C. S., & Goldman, M. (Eds.). (2013). Race and Ethnicity in the Classical World: An Anthology of Primary Sources in Translation. Hackett. [Selections]
• Frederickson, G. (2015). Racism: A Short History. Princeton UP. [pp. 15-49]
• McCoskey, D. E. (2019). Race: Antiquity and Its Legacy. Bloomsbury. [Introduction]

Separating Peoples: Plantations and Segregation From Ireland to the New World

• Canny, N. P. (1973, October). The Ideology of English Colonization: from Ireland to America. William and Mary Quarterly, 30, 575-598
• Harvey, S. (2015). Native Tongues: Colonialism and Race from Encounter to Reservation. Harvard UP.  [pp. 1-19, 182-220]

Modern Slavery and the Advent of Racialization

• Kendi, I. (2016). Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racial Ideas in America. Bold Type Books. [Chaps. 2 & 3]
• Kolchin, P. (2003). American Slavery, 1619-1877. Farrar, Straus, Giroux. [Chaps. 1 & 2 “Film ‘Amistad’”]

Classifying the Human in an Age of Revolutions

• Eze, E. C. (1997). Race and the Enlightenment: A Reader. Wiley-Blackwell. [Selections]
• Hogarth, R. (2017). Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840. UNC Press. [Introduction]
• Sussman, R. W. (2011). The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea. Harvard UP. [pp. 1-43]

Race as Modern Philosopher’s Stone

• Bernasconi, R. (Ed). (2000). The Idea of Race: Readings in Philosophy. Hackett. [Selections]
• Sussman, R. W. (2011). The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea. Harvard UP. [pp. 43-107]
• Wagner. Parsifal. [Opera]

The Aryan Myth: Antisemitism as Racism, Holocaust

• Bernasconi, R. (Ed.). (2000). The Idea of Race: Readings in Philosophy. Hackett. [Selections]
• Frederickson, G. (2015). Racism: A Short History. Princeton UP. [pp. 49-97]
• Almog, S. (1989). Nationalism and Antisemitism in Modern Europe. Pergamon. [Chaps. 1-2]

Practicing Racism: Genocide, Apartheid, Imperial Japan, and Jim Crow

• Dower, J. (1986). War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War. Pantheon. [Chap. 1]
• Frederickson, G. (2015). Racism: A Short History. Princeton UP. [pp. 97-120]
• Sussman, R. W. (2011). The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea. Harvard UP. [pp. 107-146]

Deconstructing Race: Anthropology and Ethnicity as Alternative

• Bernasconi, R. (Ed.). (2000). The Idea of Race: Readings in Philosophy. Hackett. [Selections]
• Sussman, R. W. (2011). The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea. Harvard UP. [pp. 146-165]
• W.E.B. Du Bois. (1987). Writings. Library of America. [Selections]

Responding to Race: Existentialism, Zionism, and Pan-Africanism

• Masters, B. (1994). Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Arab World: The Roots of Sectarianism. Cambridge UP. [Selections]
• Menand, L. (2020). The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War. Picador. [Selections]
• Noiriel, G. (1996). The French Melting Pot: Immigration, Citizenship, and National Identity. Minnesota UP. [Selections]
• Philcox, R. (Tran.). (2008). Black Skin, White Masks (by F. Fanon). Grove Press. [Selections]

An Empire of their own: Modern Popular Culture and Counterculture as Ethnic Phenomenon

• Coppola, F. F. (Director). (1972). The Godfather. Paramount Pictures. [Film] [The Jazz Singer. Music: Benny Goodman]
• Daniels, R. (2019). Coming to America: A History of Immigration and Ethnicity in American Life. Harper. [Chaps. 11 & 13]
• Sollors, W. (1986). Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Culture. Oxford, UP. [Introduction]

Aint no Black in the Union Jack: Contemporary Race Matters; Intersectionality and The Post-Racial Future

• Crenshaw, K, et. al. (1996). Critical Race Theory: They Key Writings That Formed a Movement. New Press. [Selections]
• Gilroy, P. (1987). There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack: The Cultural Politics of Race and Nation. Chicago UP. [Chap. 1]
• Kendi, I. (2016). Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racial Ideas in America. Bold Type Books. [Chaps. 36 & 37]
• Lee, S. (1989). Do the Right Thing. Universal. [“I am not your Negro”]

Excerpts from:

• Bayor, R. (2004). Columbia Documentary History of Race and Ethnicity in America. New York: Columbia UP.
• Blain, G., & West. (2019). To Turn the World Over: Black Women and Internationalism. Champaign: University of Illinois.
• Campbell, C. (2013). Race and Empire: Eugenics in Colonial Kenya. Manchester: Manchester UP.
• Curran, A. (2013). The Anatomy of Blackness: Science and Slavery in the Age of Enlightenment. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP.
• Fredrickson, G. (2015). Racism: A Short History. Princeton UP.
• Harvey, S. (2015). Native Tongues: Colonialism and Race from Encounter to Reservation. Cambridge: Harvard UP.
• Heng, G. (2020). The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.
• Hogarth, R. (2017). Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840. Chapel Hill: UNC Press.
• Holt, T. (2021). The Movement: The African American Movement for Civil Rights. New York: Oxford.
• Jacobson, M. F. (1999). Whiteness of a Different Color: European Immigrants and the Alchemy of Race. Cambridge: Harvard UP.
• Kendi, I. (2016). Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racial Ideas in America. New York: Bold Type Books.
• Kiernan, B. (2009). Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur. New Haven: Yale.
• Leonard, T. (2016). Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era. Princeton: Princeton UP.
• Lorimer, D. (2015). Science, Race Relations, and Resistance: Britain, 1870-1914. Manchester: Manchester UP.
• Love, E. (2005). Race Over Empire: Racism and US Imperialism, 1865-1900. Chapel Hill: UNC Press.
• Makalani, M. (2014). In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism from New York to London, 1917-1939. Chapel Hill: UNC Press.
• Roediger, D. (1995). The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class. New York: Verso.
• Smith, J. (2017). Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference: Race in Early Modern Philosophy. Princeton: Princeton.
• Sollors, W. (1986). Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Culture. New York: Oxford.
• Staum, M. (2003). Labelling People: French Scholars on Society, Race and Empire, 1815-1848. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s UP.
• Sussman, R. W. (2011). The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea. Cambridge: Harvard UP.
• Wilder, G. (2015). Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World. Durham: Duke.

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