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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMOHvXHLNeM
(The
1619 Project)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSVBR964RiY
(Lengthy
talk by Hannah-Jones)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_54RY4Eq80
30 May Peter W.
Wood, 1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project.
6
June NO
CLASS—HOLIDAY
13 June Rafia
Zakaria, Against White Feminism. Penguin Random House, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opR2TMbWcl4&t=326s
(Politics and Prose interview)
20 June Rafia
Zakaria, Against White Feminism. Penguin Random House, 2021
27 June John
McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
4 July John
McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
11 July John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has
Betrayed Black America