| Kommentar |
Thomas Sowell, Intellectuals and Race. Basic Books, 2013.
Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race. Seal Press, 2018
Peter W. Wood, 1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project. Encounter Books, 2020.
Rafia Zakaria, Against White Feminism. Penguin Random House, 2021
John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America. Portfolio/Penguin 2021.
This class will explore American themes as they appear in thinking about race and racism, especially in the wake of highly publicized police killings of African Americans in the last eight to ten years. The ways in which definitions of social justice, DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) programs, and of white privilege evolve in relation to American ideas of equality and American forms of religion will be explored. The above texts—nearly all available as Kindle, too—will be supplemented by online links to essays by writers offering conflicting views of this explosive topic; we’ll read excerpts from Amy Chua, Jill Lepore, Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay as well. Students are invited to contribute writers they find important to the discussion. |
| Bemerkung |
All students: My personal preference, if we meet in person, is for all of us to be (like me) fully vaccinated. The choice is yours, but my chronic condition puts me in life-threatening danger if I am exposed to the Corona virus. Thank you for considering this request. |
