This course will explore some important cultural and legal concepts of race in America, including the history of how ideas about race evolved in the United States. Race will be examined in a variety of social and legal contexts as well as through the histories and writings of Mexican Americans, Japanese Americans, African Americans, Jewish Americans and Arab Americans. A reader will be provided, and students should purchase the following:
Jose Antonio Villareal Pocho (1959)
David Guterson, Snow Falling On Cedars (1994)
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 (2008)
The reader will provide material from the following books treating race, law, and American culture:
Barack Obama, Dreams From My Father (1995; 2004)
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)
William H. Chafe, et.al, Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South (2001)
James C. Cobb, Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity (2005) |
