Lecture notes

Tutorial readings

Required readings:

• Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow, New York: New Press, 2012.
• Cadric Johnson, “An Open Letter to Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Liberals Who Love Him,” Jacobin, 3 February, 2016. https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/02/ta-nehisi-coates-case-for-reparations-bernie-sanders-racism/
• Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The Enduring Solidarity of Whiteness,” Atlantic, 8 February, 2016, http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/02/why-we-write/459909/

Supplementary:

• James Morone and Rogan Kersh, By the People, Oxford University Press, chapter 4 and 5. (Textbook)
• Cornel West, “Race Matters”, in Ann Serow and Everett Ladd, The Lanahan Readings in the American Polity. Baltimore, Lanahan Publishing, 1997.

Links

Race clips

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smEqnnklfYs (I have a dream) 
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9kT1yO4MGg (Look at the images here) 
• LBJ on signing civil rights act 1964 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKfoJJA5xWM&feature=related
• RFK on King’s death http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyCWV_N0EsM
• Detroit riots: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2_VX2nymRs&feature=related
• Malcolm X http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1zjgOiGgv4&feature=related
• Extra Material for the Race Lecture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-miscegenation_laws_in_the_United_States

Ads

• Willie Horton: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTdUQ9SYhUw (Revolving Door) and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC9j6Wfdq3o (Explainer) 
• Harold Ford ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24rM3--lIv8 
• Obama Billboard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbtFeartwVU 1. you didn’t build it 2. Welfare to work ads 
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWe7wTVbLUU (Obama’s famous speech on Race) 
• Reverend Wright: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hPR5jnjtLo

Look at Race figures

• 2008 Election: Blacks, 96 percent Obama to 3 percent McCain; Latinos, 67 percent Obama to 30 percent McCain; and Asians, 63 percent Obama to 34 percent McCain. 
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s00-OoZAWno (Selma March) 

Deeper analysis

• http://civilrightsproject.ucla.edu/research/k-12-education/integration-and-diversity/brown-at-60-great-progress-a-long-retreat-and-an-uncertain-future/Brown-at-60-051814.pdf
• http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/04/excerpt-sheryll-cashins-place-not-race/
• Brown 60 years on PBS: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/shields-brooks-brown-v-board-legacy-tea-party-outlook/