256C Race and Politics in the U.S. ( forår 2011 - 10 ECTS )
Rammer for udbud
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Uddannelsessprog:
engelsk
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Niveau:
Kandidatuddannelsen i Statskundskab
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Semester/kvarter:
Spring 2011
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Timer per uge:
First lesson is on Tuesday February 1, 2011, 2 - 4 p.m. in building 1325, room 428
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Deltagerbegrænsning:
Each module consists of a maximum of about 20 students. The students need to register for the module.
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Undervisningssted:
Århus
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Hovedområde:
Det Samfundsvidenskabelige Fakultet
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Udbud ID:
30359
Formål
The seminar module offers a more extensive and more thorough analysis of a topic from within political science. To this end, the seminar module provides an overview and a critical discussion of the literature and the issues relevant for the topic of the seminar.
The objectives for this module are:
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To develop students' knowledge of the major political developments concerning the incorporation of blacks as full citizens in the American political system
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To develop students' knowledge of the treatment of blacks in several key policy areas, including education, criminal justice, and health care
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To develop students' understanding of progress and continuing problems in overcoming racial exclusion and discrimination
Specific competencies to be achieved include:
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Ability to critically analyze concepts of racism and theories of why racism exists and how it affects political behavior
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Knowledge of the role of race in electoral politics, including expansion and protection of the right to vote, black and white voting patterns, and the role of race in party competition
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Knowledge of political science explanations of political change with regard to race, especially, analyses of the causes, successes and failures of the civil rights movement
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Understanding of the role of the Supreme Court in race politics, including the ability: to read Supreme Court decisions on race issues; to appreciate the distinctive mode of legal analysis that has influenced civil rights for other groups in the U.S. and internationally; and to analyze theories about the limits of legal rights and court orders as policy tools
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Knowledge of empirical findings on continuing racial disparities in electoral participation, education, economic security, criminal justice, and health care, as well as ability to critically analyze political science explanations for why these disparities persist
Indhold
This seminar is relevant for students who want to deepen their understanding of why and how race is such an important factor in American politics. Who counts as black and why does it matter? How did early American leaders justify slavery and denial of citizenship to blacks? Why and how were blacks excluded from voting after the 14
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Amendment to the Constitution granted them voting rights? What was the civil rights movement all about and what did it achieve? What was the role of the courts in school desegregation and other civil rights issues? Why is school segregation greater now than in the 1960s and worse in the North than the South? Why are 44 percent of adult black males caught up in the prison system and why are blacks less likely than whites to receive appropriate treatment for heart attacks? Why does race continue to be a complex and divisive issue, despite major progress on civil rights and the world-captivating election of a black President?
These are some of the questions that will be addressed as the course covers the following topics: the legacy of slavery; the Jim Crow era and the ideology of "separate but equal;" the definition of race in law and censuses; the civil rights revolution of the 1960s and beyond; the definition of race; the nature of racism; and the pursuit of racial equality in several key policy areas--elections, preferential policies, education, crime, health and income security. The course ends by examining how the black civil rights model has shaped other minority groups' struggles for equality.
Faglige forudsætninger
Of the nine seminars the student has to pass as part of the MA degree, at least six seminar modules have to be in political science.
Underviser
Deborah Stone
Prøveform
The assessment method is
6-hours written exam
External examiner/Graded marking.
Undervisnings- og arbejdsform
The seminar module requires active participation of students. At the beginning of the seminar module the lecturer and the students agree on specific "activity requirements" that the students have to fulfill.
Litteratur
The module compendium consists of about 1,200 pages.
Complete list will be available with the course syllabus. The readings will be drawn mainly, but not exclusively, from the American Political Development subfield of political science. Some primary documents will also be used.
Danielle S. Allen,
Talking to Strangers: Anxieties of Citizenship Since Brown v. Board of Education
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004), pp. 1-36.
Michelle Alexander,
The New Jim Crow
(New York: New Press, 2010), chap. 5, pp. 173-208.
Robert Coles,
The Call of Service
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993), pp. 1-9 and 31-40.
F. James Davis,
Who Is Black?
(Pennsylvania State University Press, 1991), chap. 2 "Miscegenation and Beliefs," pp. 17-30.
Eric Foner,
The Story of American Freedom
(New York: W.W. Norton, 1998), chaps. 2 and 3, pp. 29-68
Jennifer Hochschild and Vesla Weaver, "'There's No One as Irish as Barack O'Bama'" The Policy and Politics of American Multiracialism,"
Perspectives on Politics
, vol. 8, no. 3, Sept. 2010: 737- 759.
Martin Luther King, Jr., "I Have a Dream" Speech" (1963) and "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" (1963)
Michael J. Klarman,
Brown v. Board of Education and the Civil Rights Movement
(Oxford University Press, 2007)
Philip A. Klinkner with Rogers M. Smith,
The Unsteady March
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), chap. 8, pp. 242-287.
Martha Minow,
In Brown's Wake: Legacies of America's Educational Landmark
(Oxford University Press, 2010); chap. 3 "Making Waves: Schooling and Disability, Sexual Orientation, Religion and Economic Class," pp. 69-95
Melissa Nobles,
Shades of Citizenship: Race and the Census in Modern Politics
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000)
Richard M. Valelly,
The Two Reconstructions: The Struggle for Black Enfranchisement
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press), 2004, chap. 1, pp. 1-23.
Studieordning og bedømmelse
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