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POS334-L is a discussion list constructed for the Race, Ethnicity and Social Inequality seminar (formerly numbered POS302) held each spring semester at Illinois State University. Subscription to the list is open to all faculty and students at any University or College. The discussion on the list consists of book reviews and commentaries on book reviews submitted by the subscribers. The purposes of the list are to provide an audience for the work of the students in the seminar, to provide the seminar with an external source of opinion and insight on the readings under discussion, and to provide all subscribers with an public forum for the discussion of contemporary books on race, ethnicity, and social inequality. Graduate and Undergraduate students are especially encouraged to submit book reviews to the list and to participate in the discussions. Faculty are encouraged to use this list with their classes. The discussion list is open for reviews of books on race and ethnicity at any time, including books that are not on the class schedule.
The Course:
Book Review ArchiveBlue Dreams
Col or Conscious Asante, Molefi. The Afrocentric Idea
Billingsley, Andrew. Black Families in White America Bordewich, Fergus. Killing the White Man's Indian Bonilla-Silva Eduardo. Racism Without Racists
Carnoy, Martin, et. al., Whitewashing Race; ; An Unlikely Conservative: The Color Bind
Cole, David . No Equal Justice .
Cornell, Stephen. The Return Of The Native Color Bind (2003, real audio speech) Bone to Pick
The Coming Race War?
Deparle, Jason. American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End Welfare
Dionne, E.J. Why Americans Hate Politics Dickerson, Debra. The End of BlacknessD'Souza, Dinesh. Iliberal Education; The End of Racism; What's So Great About America?Duneier, Mitchel. Slim's Table Dyson, Michael Eric. Is Bill Cosby Right?:
(Spring '03) Feagin, Joe R., Melvin P. Sikes. Living With Racism Fleisher, Mark S. Beggars and Thieves
Fredrickson, George M. Racism: A Short History Friedman. Thomas L. The Lexus and the Olive Tree Americans No More
, Dianne Walta, Undocumented in L.A.
Huntington, Samuel. Who Are We? How the Irish Became White
. Enlightened Racism
Katznelson, Ira. When Affirmative Action was White
Kelley, Robin and George Lipsitz, Race Rebels . Race, Crime, and the Law
Mead, Lawrence. The New Politics of Poverty Michaels, Walter Benn. The Trouble with Diversity: How We Learned to Love Identity and Ignore Inequality
The Ordeal Of Integration Richard J. Getting Beyond Race
. Immigrant America Ramos, Jorge. The Latino Wave: How Hispanics Are Transforming Politics in America Rainwater, Lee and Timothy M. Smeeding, Poor Kids in a Rich Country Rieder, Jonathan. Canarsie Robinson, Randall . The Debt Rodriguez, Richard. Hunger of Memory Roediger, David The Wages of Whiteness Rothstein, Richard, Class and Schools
Smith, Robert C. Contemporary Controversies and the American Racial Divide
(C-span interview) (real audio); Affirmative Action Around the World; Black Rednecks and White Liberals ; White Guilt Suro, Roberto. Strangers Among Us
, America in Black and White, No Excuses
(oral arguments and opinions in the case) Vaca, Nicolas C. The Presumed Alliance Wachtel , Paul. Race in the Mind of America
Williams, Juan. Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead-End Movements, and Culture of Failure
; The Bridge over the Racial Divide
Featured Reviews: Authors who have appeared in our class:
Original Interview with Lawrence Mead:
Books that students really liked:
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FORMAT AND CONTENT OF REVIEWS:Messages sent to the list (POS334-L@ilstu.edu) will be automatically sent out to all subscribers. Please limit such messages to one of two formats: 1) a book review, or 2) a commentary on one or more of the reviews. As a general rule reviews should be between 1,000 and 2,500 words. A schedule for the book reviews is at the end of this message. It indicates the first day of a two-week period for submitting a book review. Please try to send reviews of these books within the two week time period. Reviews of books not on the schedule may be sent at any time. The subject field of the message should contain the word REVIEW followed by the name of the author of the book, and your last name in parentheses. e.g.: subject: REVIEW: Derrick Bell (Lyle) The discussion list archive is indexed by the message subject headings, so please adhere to the subject-field convention. The text of the message should begin with a full citation of the work and the name and affiliation of the reviewer and the date. A suggested format is shown below: Dinesh
D'Souza, ILLIBERAL EDUCATION: THE POLITICS OF RACE AND SEX ON CAMPUS
FORMAT AND CONTENT OF COMMENTARIES:The POS334-L aims for serious and thoughtful academic discussion, it is not a forum for stating personal opinions. PLEASE REFRAIN FROM SENDING SHORT SPONTANEOUS REACTIONS TO A BOOK OR REVIEW TO THE LIST. Commentaries should be at least 100 words in length and should reflect a reading of the work or other works of the author. Note that automatic replies to messages sent from the list will normally go directly to the original sender, messages to the list must be addressed to POS334-L@ilstu.edu MODERATION:Many of these works are controversial and the subject matter concerns a topic that sometimes provokes heated exchanges in other settings. Rather than having a formal set of standards for decency and good taste, the members of the class at Illinois State will act as referees, upon majority vote of the class, I will kick anyone off the list whose messages do not contribute to its general educational purposes. Please remember at all times that many of the people on this list are students, that students are people, that they are trying to learn, and that they will make mistakes and say things that are wrong.
We learn from our mistakes. It is just as important not to take offense as it is not to be offensive .II. Book Review Schedule: {Note: Each undergraduate student will be assigned one book from each section to review.}
Section One
Joe Feagin. Racist America
Section two
Eugene Robinson, Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America
Michelle Alexander,
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
William J. Wilson,
More than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City
Section three
Sharon Hays
Flat Broke with Children: Women in
the Age of Welfare Reform
Jonathan Kozol, The Shame of the Nation: Dinesh D'Souza, Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race and Sex on Campus Urofsky, Melvin, Affirmative Action On Trial Barbara A. Perry, The Michigan Affirmative Action Cases
(Note: Each Illinois State student will be assigned one book to review from each section, and one additional book to read.
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