This course will explore some important cultural and legal concepts of race in America, including the history of how the story of race is told in the United States. A reader will be provided, and students should purchase the following: David Guterson, Snow Falling On Cedars (1994) Jose Antonio Villareal Pocho (1959) Henry Louis Gates, Colored People (1994) Chaim Potok The Chosen (1967) Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does it Feel to Be a Problem? Being Young and Arab in America The reader will provide material from the following books treating race, law, and American culture: Barack Obama, Dreams From My Father (1995) James C. Cobb, Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity (2005) William H. Café, et. al, eds, Remembering Jim Crow (2001) Peggy Pascoe, What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in America (2009) Fay Botham, Almighty God Created The Races: Christianity, Interracial Marriage, and American Law (2009) |
