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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Race Across Time -- Apples are the Color of Blood -- Confederate Police and the Post-Slavery Racial Order: A New Perspective on the New Orleans Race Riot of 1866 -- The State and the Production of Racial Categories -- The End of Race? Rethinking the Meaning of Blackness in Post-Civil Rights America -- How to Talk Nasty About Blacks Without Sounding "Racist": Exposing the Sophisticated Style of Color-Blind Racism -- A Critical Sociology of African Americans, the U.S. Welfare State, and Neoliberalism in the Era of Corporate Globalization -- Looking B(l)ackward: 2097-1997 -- Race Across Space -- Transforming Racial Identity Through Affirmative Action -- Do the right thing - race and ethnic differences in integrity -- The Black Radical Traditions in the South: Confronting Empire -- Exploring the Racial Discrimination and Competition Processes of Race-Specific Violence in the Urban Context -- A Black Feminist Critique of the Social Construction of Crack Cocaine along Race, Class, and Gender Lines -- Dining While Black: Racial Rituals and the Black American Restaurant Experience -- Ethnography, Demography and Service-Learning: Situating Lynwood Park -- Race Across Discipline -- On Black Athena, Hippocratic Medicine, and Roman Imperial Edicts: Egyptians and the Problem of Race in Classical Antiquity -- Metaphoric Black Bodies in the Hinterlands of Race -- Or, Towards Deciphering the Du Boisian Concept of Race and Nation in "The Conservation of Races -- Sexism, Racism and African American Muslim Women: What Does Wearing Hijab Mean to Them? -- Repression, Racism, and Resistance: The New Orleans Black Urban Regime and a Challenge to Racist Neoliberalism -- Ethnic Pluralism and National Identity in Nigeria.

As we watch COVID devastate our country, many wonder how we got here. I argue that in this paper that the crisis has been agrevated, if not a direct result of presidential missteps, and belligerence. Further, most impacted have been racialized groups. These factors, described here as elements of the perfect storm, are not by accident, but a series of miscalculations and errors, blatant disregard for reality and science, and deliberate attempts to mislead, minimize, and dismiss the severity, reality, and dangers associated with this pandemic. Early responses by President Donald Trump to COVID-19 can be characterized as inept, unfocused, and lacking leadership. Even as the first cases of COVID-19 were being identified in Wuhan, China, President Trump was working to promote his anti-science stance by dismantling the science policy infrastructure installed to advise him. Following Trump's lead, many GOP local and state leaders trivialized the significance of COVID-19 early as it ravaged the country.

In this article we shall explore the elements of the perfect storm. Specifically, it reflects on the confluence of sequentially interrelated events and processes: (a) a national cult of violence; (b) structural inequality; (c) national and local policies targeting young males of color; (d) neglect; and (e) nihilism, all of which delegitimizes, targets, and victimizes young males of color. This perfect storm reflects a system, rarely viewed by either media or the public, which must both theoretically and with reference to policy also be viewed systematically. Absent this systematic approach, our efforts to contain, reduce, and/or eliminate the homicidal menace devastating our youth and communities of color can at best only be marginally successful.

SyllabusThis course will explore the concepts of race and ethnicity and the dynamics of inter‐group relations. It will cover the main historical and global processes that have led to the formation of ethnic groups and racial minorities. In the process, we will examine several groups, historical periods, and geo‐political issues in detail. Class sessions will consist primarily of group discussions, supplemented by lectures, films, and in‐class projects.Goals statements

Develop working understanding of basic theoretical issues associated with race and ethnicity in sociology.
Develop working understanding of how these theoretical issues effect policy, national and international discourse, and inter/intra‐group relations.
Develop working understanding of how economic policies and institutions, political systems, and social institutions effect race and ethnic relations.
Develop an understanding of how theories are used to interpret race and ethnic relations.
Develop understanding regarding how the processes of racialization and/or ethnicity produce and sustain segregation, discrimination, and inequality.
Develop understanding regarding how political processes are affected by systems of racialization (Massey and Denton).
Develop understanding of overt and covert racism, and how they explain current racial trends in both US and international contexts.

Recommended reading

David R. Roediger, Working Toward Whiteness: How America's Immigrants Became White.
Marylyn Halter, Shopping for Identity: The Marketing of Ethnicity.

Lecture and discussion topics: Week 1

Introduction to Race and Ethnicity
Course Expectations, initial orientation to the subject matter, goals
Race and Ethnicity in Global Terms

 Rodney D. Coates, 'A Simple Typology of Racial Hegemony', Societies Without Borders, 1 (2006). (Distributed on blackboard) Week 2 Global Race and Ethnic Relations – Rwanda

Viewing of Hotel Rwanda – In Class
Never Again: The World's Most Unfulfilled Promise (Links through  blackboard)
What are the lessons of Rwanda?

Week 3 – Global Race and Ethnic Relations – Chechens and Russia

Q&A: The Chechen conflict
Conflict in Chechnya
From the Chechens themselves

Week 4 – Global Race and Ethnic Relations – Middle East

Israeli and Palestinian Conflict
Iraq Conflict – Civil War in Iraq

Week 5 – Ethnicity in America – The Making of Whiteness

Seeing Race in New Immigrant History (Roediger: 1–56)

Week 6 – Ethnicity in America – The Making of Whiteness continued

In Betweeness (Roediger: 57–110)

Week 7 – White on Arrival

In Betweeness (Roediger: 111–132)
The Ironies of Immigration Restriction (Roediger: 133–156)

Week 8: Entering the White House

Finding Homes in an Era of Restriction (Roediger: 157–199)

Week 9 Race and Ethnic identity within Corporate and business systems

Industrialization, Unions and Politics (Roediger: 199–234)
Creating and Manufacturing Racial and Ethnic Identity (Halter: 1–40)

New forms of racism Week 10

Rodney Coates, Covert Racism in the U.S. and Globally
Eduardo Bonilla‐Silva, Color Blind Racism

Week 11

Picca and Feagin, Two‐Faced Racism (Handout)
Marketing Race and Identity around the Globe (Halter: 42–96)

Week 12

Ethnic by Design (Halter: 104‐end)

Racial and Ethnic Relations – Where do we go from here Week 13 Rodney D. Coates, 'From Civil Rights to Social Justice' (New Black, UK: Elsevier, forthcoming)

AbstractCovert racism, born out of imperialist needs to maximize profit at the expense of racialized others, stands shielded by institutions, culture, stereotypical assumptions, and tradition. Whereas overt racism assumed blatant and insidious forms, covert racism hides behind the façade of 'politeness', political correctness and expediency. Racially coded words and calls for racial blindness obfuscate the reality of this subtle, subversive, and often hidden form of racism. Covert racism, just like its twin overt racism, is neither innocent nor harmless. The scars of covert racism, often seen in terms of increased levels of disease, negative sanctions, inadequate information, and lost opportunities – serve to continually victimize racial nonelites.

Social justice, predicated on the expansion of human rights, is by definition a critical and intellectual enterprise. Social critique, made possible by social justice paradigms, provides the basis for social action and social change and leads ultimately to the enhancement of social democracies. Such critical intellectual enterprises require that people constantly reevaluate not only their social institutions but also the terms they use to describe their very existence. Such reevaluation is best accomplished within the crucible of the academy.