Philosophy, "Race" and Multiculturalism

Syllabus | Readings | Assignments | Handouts

Readings
Class 4
Eamonn Callan - The Ethics of Assimilation

Class 5
Asante - Racism, Consciousness, and Afrocentricity

Class 6
Carter - The Black Table, the Empty Seat, and the Tie

Class 7
Guglielmo - ’No Color Barrier’: Italians, Race, and Power in the United States

Class 8
Waters - The Costs of a Costless Community

Class 9
Alcoff - Mestizo Identity

Class 10
Rodríguez - Challenging Racial Hegemony: Puerto Ricans in the United States
Navarro - Black and Cuban: Bias in Two Worlds

Class 11
Telles - Rethinking Brazilian Race Relations

Class 13
Hughes - Passing
Davis - The Hawaiian Alternative to the One-Drop Rule

Class 14
Obama - Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (Chp. IV)
Arana - He’s Not Black Obama - Washington Post

Class 15
Espiritu - Ethnicity and Panethnicity

Class 16
Liu - The Accidental Asian

Class 17
Bowen - Muslims and Citizens: France’s Headscarf Controversy
Amara - Those Who Wear the Headscarf
Bennhold - A Veil Closes France’s Door to Citizenship

Class 18
Sen - Religious Affiliations and Muslim History

Class 19
Parekh - Equality in a Multicultural Society

Class 20
Frederickson - Mosaics and Melting Pots

Class 25
Barry - The Dynamics of Identity: Assimilation, Acculturation, and Difference

Class 26
Waldron - Multiculturalism and Mélange

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Assignments

FINAL EXAM, Part I: On Charles Taylor
Mid-term Exam
Du Bois Make Up Assignment

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Handouts

Handout 1 - W. E. B. Du Bois - The Souls of Black Folk
Handout 2 - Eamonn Callan - The Ethics of Assimilation
Handout 3 - Thomas Guglielmo - No Color Barrier
Handout 4 - Linda Martín Alcoff - Mestizo Identity
Handout 5 - Mixed Race Identifications On the U.S. Census
Handout 6 - Race, Ethnicity, Panethnicity
Handout 7 - Bhikhu Parekh - Equality in a Multicultural Society
Handout 8 - George Frederickson, “Mosaics and Melting Pots"
Handout 9 - Charles Taylor - The Politics of Recognition (Sections I and II)
Handout 10 - Barry’s Criticisms of Multiculturalism

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