SOC 323/AAS 323
Race and Ethnicity in Human Society (II, SA) npdf

Professor: W. L. Wallace

Description/Objectives: Offers broad overview. The perspective is global; examines origins, general history, and likely future of ethnic, racial, and nationality groups; types of strategies used in intergroup competition (including ethnocentrism, prejudice, discrimination, segregation, slavery, genocide, coalition-formation), and their consequences for the production and distribution of wealth, power, knowledge, and honor in human society.

Sample Reading List:

• Peters, 'A Class Divided'
  
• Sherif and Sherif, 'Groups in Harmony and Tension'
  
• Bonacich, 'Ethnic Antagonism: Split Labor Market'
  
• Wilson, 'The Truly Disadvantaged'
  
• Levi, 'The Drowned and the Saved'
  
• Pan, 'Sons of the Yellow Emperor'
  

Reading/Writing Assignments: 75-100 pages of reading.

Requirements/Grading:

• Midterm Exam 17%
  
• Final Exam 50%
  
• Class/Precepts Participation
  
• Term Paper(s) 33%
  

Other Information: There will be a packet of readings available from Pequod Copy. This course counts towards WWS disciplinary perspectives requirement.

Schedule:

• Lecture 1.0: 2:30-3:20 TTh
  
• Precept 1.0:To be arranged.