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This class explores how race and place create each other. This includes.how place and space have shaped our understandings and experiences of race and how race, our own and our perception of others, shapes our experiences of different places and spaces. This semester we will explore issues of race in four particular spheres: schools, national territories and their borders, the internet and social media, and public space and public memory. All students will be assessed on their participation during each of the four modules, which means that you should come to class prepared for discussion. Participation will be assessed for each of the 3 week modules. Students will complete three of the four paper assignments. Everyone will write the first paper on school segregation and then will be able to choose two from the other three papers. All students will help review paper drafts for all four papers. All students will submit a portfolio of their work in the class with a reflection paper and IF they choose, edited copies of their papers with a memo describing how and why they changed their paper. These edits, if substantial, may merit a revised grade for the paper.
Course Modules
Module 1: Schools & Segregation
Questions: What spatial and social practices have created contemporary patterns of school segregation? What are the consequences of segregated schools? What policies could help desegregate school district and what challenges do they face?
Module 2: Immigration & Discourse
Questions: How does discourse around immigration reveal different ideas about the racial identity of "Americans" and others? How do competing discourses construct or draw on different racialized narratives about national identity and its borders?
Module 3:
Race & Public Space
Questions: How are different public spaces racialized? How do public spaces shape and reflect our experiences of race? How do we negotiate different and competing demands about what is appropriate in public space, particularly regarding what we memorialize?
Module 4:
Race & the Internet
Question: How is racial identity represented, shaped, and challenged on the internet? How are race relations shaped in online spaces? Are parts of the internet racialized? Is the internet segregated and does it matter?
Assignments
Participation:
My goal is 100% participation, which means that I want everyone to come to class and everyone to contribute to class discussions. Participation in each module is worth 5 points, for a total of 20 points.
Modules:
Each paper should be about 1500 words; each is worth up to 20 points. Students should plan on completing three module papers. These papers will be focused on data presentation and interpretation.
Peer Reviews:
Peer review days are collectively worth 10 points together. Missing one will cost you 2.5 points. Every student completing a module paper should bring two printed copies of their paper for peer review.
Portfolio:
At the end of the semester students will submit a portfolio with a reflection paper (guidelines will be provided later in the semester). Students may submit paper revisions and a memo describing their revisions at this time.
| Dates | Topic | Peer Review | Paper | Readings |
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| 1/16 | Intro to Class and Website | |||
| 1/18 | Omi and Winant, "Racial Formation" & "The Racial State" And David Delaney "The Space that Race Makes" | Canvas Discussion Questions |
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| 1/23 - 2/8 | Module 1: Schools & Segregation | February 8, in class | Monday, February 12, via Canvas | see Module Site |
| 2/13 - 3/1 | Module 2: Immigration & Discourse | March 1, in class | Monday, March 5, via Canvas | see Module Site |
| 3/13-3/29 | Module 3: Race and Public Space | March 29, in class | April 2, via Canvas | see Module Site |
| 4/3-4/19 | Module 4: Race and the Internet | April 19, in class | April 23, via Canvas | see Module Site |
| 4/24 & 4/26 | Summing it all up | |||
| May 3 | Portfolio Due, noon | see Portfolio Guidelines |