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MAIS 663 explores conceptions of race from various perspectives in social and political theory, recognizing that such knowledge is important for making sense of the ambiguities and complexities of race and sociopolitical life in modern liberal states.

Unit 1: Introduction: The Invention and Meanings of Race (Week 1)

Banton, Michael. 1987. "The Classification of Races in Europe and North America: 1700–1850." International Social Science Journal 39, no. 1 (February): 45–59.
Bonnett, Alastair. 1998. "Who Was white? The Disappearance of Non-European White Identities and the Formation of European Racial Whiteness." Ethnic and Racial Studies 21, no. 6 (November): 1029–1055.
TallBear, Kim. 2013. “Chapter 1: Racial Science, Blood, and DNA.” In Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science, 31–66. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Lee, Erika. 2005. "Echoes of the Chinese Exclusion Era in Post-9/11 America." Chinese America: History & Perspectives 1 (1): 1–7.
Mawani, Renisa. 2004. "'Cleansing the Conscience of the People': Reading Head Tax Redress in Multicultural Canada." Canadian Journal of Law and Society 19 (2): 127–151.

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Unit 2: Contemporary Discourses of Race and Racism(s) (Week 2)

Goldberg, David Theo. 2009. "Racial Comparisons, Relational Racisms: Some Thoughts on Method." Ethnic and Racial Studies 32 (7): 1271–1282.
Doane, Ashley. 2006. "What Is Racism? Racial Discourse and Racial Politics." Critical Sociology 32 (2–3): 255–274.
Goldberg, David Theo. 2006. "Racial Europeanization." Ethnic and Racial Studies 29, no. 2 (March): 331–364.
Lentin, Alana. 2000. "'Race,' Racism and Anti-Racism: Challenging Contemporary Classifications." Social Identities 6, no.1 (March): 91–106.

Unit 3: Not Just Gender, Not Just Race: Mapping Intersections and Interconnections (Week 3)

Combahee River Collective. 1977. Combahee River Collective Statement.
Collins, Patricia Hill. 2009. “Race, Class, and Gender as Categories of Analysis and Connection.” In Inequality and Society: Social Science Perspectives on Social Stratification, edited by Jeff Manza and Michael Sauder, 673–681. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
Mohanty, Chandra Talpade. 2002. "'Under Western Eyes'" Revisited: Feminist Solidarity Through Anticapitalist Struggles." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 28, no. 2 (Winter): 499–535.
Hulko, Wendy. 2009. "The Time- and Context-Contingent Nature of Intersectionality and Interlocking Oppressions." Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work 24, no. 1 (February): 44–55.
Luft, Rachel E. 2008. "Looking for Common Ground: Relief Work in Post-Katrina New Orleans as an American Parable of Race and Gender Violence." National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) 20 (3): 5–31.
Ranganathan, Malini. 2016. "Thinking with Flint: Racial Liberalism and the Roots of an American Water Tragedy." Capitalism Nature Socialism 27 (3): 1–17.

Unit 4: Race-Making, Whiteness, and Critical Racial Projects (Week 4)

Twine, France Winddance, and Charles Gallagher. 2008. "The Future of Whiteness: A Map of the 'Third Wave'." Ethnic and Racial Studies 31, no. 1 (January): 4–24.
Owen. David S. 2007. "Towards a Critical Theory of Whiteness." Philosophy and Social Criticism 33, no. 2 (March): 203–222.
Tascon, Sonia Magdalena. 2008. "Narratives of Race and Nation: Everyday Whiteness in Australia." Social Identities 14, no. 2 (March): 253–274.
Essed, Philomena, and Sandra Trienekens. 2008. "'Who Wants to Feel White?' Race, Dutch Culture and Contested Identities." Ethnic and Racial Studies 31, no. 1 (January): 52–72.
Leonardo, Zeus. 2004. "The Color of Supremacy: Beyond the Discourse of 'White Privilege'." Educational Philosophy and Theory 36 (2): 137–152.

Unit 5: Whiteness, Anti-racism, and the Racial State (Week 5)

McWhorter, Ladelle. 2005. "Where Do White People Come From?: A Foucaultian Critique of Whiteness Studies." Philosophy and Social Criticism 31, no. 5/6 (September): 533–556.
Frankenberg, Ruth. 2005. "Cracks in the Façade: Whiteness and the Construction of 9/11." Social Identities 11, no. 6 (November): 553–571.
Wise, Tim. 2008. The Pathology of White Privilege: Racism, White Denial and the Costs of Inequality (video transcript). Northampton, MA: Media Education Foundation.
Lusane, Clarence. 2008. "Fightback: The Movement Against Racial Profiling in Europe." Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society 10 (4): 374–389.

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Bahdi, Reem. 2003. "No Exit: Racial Profiling and Canada's War Against Terrorism." Osgoode Hall Law Journal 41, no. 2/3 (Summer/Fall): 294–316.
Gamal, Fanna. 2016. "The Racial Politics of Protection: A Critical Race Examination of Police Militarization." California Law Review 104 (4): 979–1008.

Unit 6: The Global Prison Industrial Complex (Week 7)

Sudbury, Julia. 2005. "Celling Black Bodies: Black Women in the Global Prison Industrial Complex." Feminist Review 80: 162–179.
Davis, Angela Y. 1998. “Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex.” ColorLines (Fall).
Martin, William G. 2001. “Privatizing Prisons from the USA to SA: Controlling Dangerous Africans Across the Atlantic.” ACAS Bulletin 59 (Winter).
Sudbury, Julia. 2004. "A World Without Prisons: Resisting Militarism, Globalized Punishment, and Empire." Social Justice 31 (1/2): 9–30.
Puar, Jasbir K. 2004. "Abu Ghraib: Arguing Against Exceptionalism." Feminist Studies 30, no. 2 (Summer): 522–534.

Unit 7: Globalization, Tourism, and the State: Race, Class, Gender, and Sexual Politics (Week 8)

Alexander, Jacqui. M. 1994. "Not Just (Any) Body Can Be a Citizen: The Politics of Law, Sexuality and Postcoloniality in Trinidad and Tobago and the Bahamas." Feminist Review 48 (Autumn): 5–23.
Carter, Thomas F. 2008. "Of Spectacular Phantasmal Desire: Tourism and the Cuban State's Complicity in the Commodification of its Citizens." Leisure Studies 27, no. 3 (July): 241–257.
Bandyopadhyay, Ranjan, and Vrushali Patil. 2017. "'The White Woman's Burden' — The Racialized, Gendered Politics of Volunteer Tourism." Tourism Geographies 19, no. 4 (March): 644–657.
O'Connell Davidson, Julia. 2001. "The Sex Tourist, the Expatriate, His Ex-Wife and Her 'Other': The Politics of Loss, Difference and Desire." Sexualities 4, no. 1 (February): 5–24.

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Stephenson, Marcus L., and Howard L. Hughes. 2005. "Racialised Boundaries in Tourism and Travel: A Case Study of the UK Black Caribbean Community." Leisure Studies 24, no. 2 (April): 137–160.

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Unit 8: Diasporic Encounters: Race-Making, Race-Mixing, and the Construction of Identity in New Times (Week 9)

Gilbert, David. 2005. "Interrogating Mixed-Race: A Crisis of Ambiguity?" Social Identities 11, no. 1 (January): 55–74.
Twine, France Winddance. 2004. "A White Side of Black Britain: The Concept of Racial Literacy." Ethnic and Racial Studies 27, no. 6 (November): 878–907.
Leroux, Darryl. 2018. "'We've Been Here for 2,000 Years': White Settlers, Native American DNA and the Phenomenon of Indigenization." Social Studies of Science 48 (1): 80–100.
Rockquemore, Kerry Ann, and Patricia Arend. 2002. "Opting for White: Choice, Fluidity and Racial Identity Construction in Post Civil-Rights America." Race and Society 5 (1): 49–64.
England, Sarah. 2010. "Mixed and Multiracial in Trinidad and Honduras: Rethinking Mixed-Race Identities in Latin America and the Caribbean." Ethnic and Racial Studies 33, no. 2 (February): 195–213.
Pabst, Naomi. 2009. "An Unexpected Blackness: Musings on Diasporic Encounters and Hybrid Engagements." Transition, no. 100: 112–132.

Unit 9: Race and Apartheid in South Africa (Week 10)

Willoughby-Herard, Tiffany. 2007. "South Africa's Poor Whites and Whiteness Studies: Afrikaner Ethnicity, Scientific Racism, and White Misery." New Political Science 29, no. 4 (December): 479–500.
Marx, Anthony W. 1997. "Apartheid’s End: South Africa’s Transition from Racial Domination." Ethnic and Racial Studies 20, no. 3 (July): 474–496.
Seidman, Gay. 1999. "Is South Africa Different? Sociological Comparisons and Theoretical Contributions from the Land of Apartheid." Annual Review of Sociology 25: 419–440.
Cock, Jacklyn, and Alison Bernstein. 2001. "Gender Differences: Struggles Around 'Needs' and 'Rights' in South Africa." National Women’s Studies Association 13, no. 3 (Fall): 138–152.

Unit 10: Post-Apartheid: "Rainbow Nation" / "Non-racial Democracy" (Week 11)

Farred, Grant. 2001. "Where Does the Rainbow Nation End? Colouredness and Citizenship in Post-Apartheid South Africa." The New Centennial Review 1, no. 1 (Spring): 175–199.
Ansell, Amy E. 2004. "Two Nations of Discourse: Mapping Racial Ideologies of Post-Apartheid South Africa." Politikon 31, no. 1 (May): 3–26.

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Vincent, Louise. 2008. "The Limitations of ‘Inter-Racial Contact’: Stories from Young South Africa." Ethnic and Racial Studies 31, no. 8 (November): 1426–1451.
Steyn, Melissa, and Don Foster. 2008. "Repertoires for Talking White: Resistant Whiteness in Post-Apartheid South Africa." Ethnic and Racial Studies 31, no. 1 (January): 25–51.
Duckitt, John, and Thobi Mphuthing. 1998. "Political Power and Race Relations in South Africa: African Attitudes Before and After the Transition." Political Psychology 19, no. 4 (December): 809–832.

Unit 11: Race and "Racial Democracy" in Brazil (Week 12)

Da Costa, Alexandre Emboaba. 2016. "Confounding Anti-Racism: Mixture, Racial Democracy, and Post-racial Politics in Brazil." Critical Sociology 42 (4–5): 495–513.
Skidmore, Thomas E. 1983. "Race and Class in Brazil: Historical Perspectives." Luso-Brazilian Review 20, no. 1 (Summer): 104–118.
Winant, Howard. 1992. "Rethinking Race in Brazil." Journal of Latin American Studies 24, no. 1 (February): 173–192.
Owensby, Brian. 2005. "Toward a History of Brazil's 'Cordial Racism': Race Beyond Liberalism." Comparative Studies in Society and History 47, no. 2 (April): 318–347.
Windsor, Liliane Cambraia. 2007. "Deconstructing Racial Democracy: A Personal Quest to Understand Social Conditioning About Race Relations in Brazil." Social Identities 13, no. 4 (July): 495–520.

Unit 12: Race-Gender-Class and In/Equality in Brazil's "Racial Democracy" (Week 13)

Caldwell, Kia Lily. 2003. "'Look at Her Hair': The Body Politics of Black Womanhood in Brazil." Transforming Anthropology 11 (2): 18–29.
Rezende, Claudia Barcellos, and Lima, Marcia. 2004. "Linking Gender, Class and Race in Brazil." Social Identities 10, no. 6 (November): 757–773.
Lovell, Peggy A. 2000. "Gender, Race, and the Struggle for Social Justice in Brazil." Latin American Perspectives 27, no. 6 (November): 85–102.
dos Santos, Sales Augusto. 2006. "Who Is Black in Brazil? A Timely or a False Question in Brazilian Race Relations in the Era of Affirmative Action?" Translated by Obianuju C. Anya. Latin American Perspectives 33, no. 4 (July): 30–48.

Unit 13: Post-racial in the Age of Barack Obama and Michelle Obama and . . . Donald Trump? (Week 14)

Moraga, Cherrie L. 2008. "What’s Race Gotta Do with It?" Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism 9 (1): 163–173.
Ulysse, Gina Athena. 2009. "She Ain’t Oprah, Angela, or Your Baby Mama: The Michelle O Enigma." Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism 9, no. 1 (Spring): 174–176.
Hollinger, David A. 2008. "Obama, the Instability of Color Lines, and the Promise of a Post-Ethnic Future." Callaloo 31, no. 4 (Fall): 1033–1037.
Parameswaran, Radhika. 2009. "Facing Barack Hussein Obama: Race, Globalization, Transnational America." Journal of Communication Inquiry 33, no. 3 (July): 195–205.
Germain, Felix. 2010. "'Presidents of Color,' Globalization, and Social Inequality." Journal of Black Studies 40, no. 3 (January): 445–461.
Winant, Howard. 2006. "Race and Racism: Toward a Global Future." Ethnic and Racial Studies 29, no. 5 (September): 986–1003.
Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo. 2019. "Towards a New Political Praxis for Trumpamerica: New Directions in Critical Race Theory." American Behavioral Scientist 63 (13): 1776–1788.
Mejia, Robert, Kay Beckermann, and Curtis Sullivan. 2018. "White Lies: A Racial History of the (Post)Truth." Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies 15 (2): 109–126.