Presentation Schedule

Updated April 2, 2008

 

 

 

Week 1:

 

April 2

Introduction to the class

 

 

 

 

Week 2:

 

April 7

Imagined Communities Ch 1-4

 

Presenter: Jen

April 9

Imagined Communities Ch 5, 6

 

 

Week 3:

 

April 14

Imagined Communities finish the book

 

Presenter: Donovan

April 16

How the Irish Became White, Introduction + Chapter 1

 

Presenter: Jamie

 

 

Week 4:

 

April 21

How the Irish, Chapters 2, 3, and 4

 

Presenter: Michelle

April 23

How the Irish, finish the book

 

 

Week 5:

 

April 28

Who is Black? Ch 1-5

 

Presenter: Sarah

April 30

Who is Black? Finish the book

 

Presenter: Brittany

 

 

Week 6:

 

May 5

Why Are All the Black Kids... Chapters 1-4

 

Presenter: Ali

May 7

Why Are All the Black Kids... Chapters 5-8

 

Presenter:

 

 

Week 7:

 

May 12

Carnal Knowledge (by Stoler, in the reader)

 

Presenter: Katherina

May 14

Passing, and the Managed Achievement of Sex Status, (By Garfinkel, in the reader)

 

Presenter: Jenna

 

 

Week 8:

 

May 19

The Mismeasure of Man Chapter 2 (on craniometry)

 

Presenter: Sheilan

May 21

The Mismeasure of Man Chapter 5 (On IQ), plus P. 264-269 on Cyril Burt

 

 

Week 9:

 

May 26

No class, Memorial Day

May 28

Symbolic Racism (by Sears, in the reader)

and

Group Conflict, Prejudice, and the Paradox of Contemporary Racial Attitudes (by Bobo, in the reader)

 

Presenter: Eva

 

 

Week 10:

 

June 2

Symbolic Ethnicity:  The Future of Ethnic Groups and Cultures in America (by Gans, in the reader)

June 4

No assignment, last class