Summary of Anti-Racism and America

Anti-Racism and America

Melissa.Knox-Raab@uni-due.de

R12 S04 H22

Office hours: By Zoom appointment

Phone: 183-2162

Anti-Racism and America

Mondays 10-12

R11 T04 C84

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.

4 April Introduction to the course: excerpts from the writers we will read.

11 April Thomas Sowell, Intellectuals and Race

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6ImP-gJvas

2013 Interview.

18 April HOLIDAY: Easter

25 April Thomas Sowell, Intellectuals and Race

2 May Thomas Sowell, Intellectuals and Race

9 May Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6O4ivGObux4

16 May Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnybJZRWipg

23 May Peter W. Wood, 1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project.