Links to textual resources forthcoming.

Orthodox conceptions of race, racism, and antiracism

Session 1:

• Bell Jr, Derrick A. “Brown v. Board of Education and the interest-convergence dilemma.” Harvard law review (1980): 518-533.
• Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo. (2014). Chapter 1: “The Strange Enigma of Race in Contemporary America.” Racism without Racists. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
• Crenshaw, Kimberle (2020). “When Blackness is a Precondition”

Session 2:

• Coates, Ta-Nehisi. “The case for reparations.” The Atlantic 313, no. 5 (2014): 54-71.
• Obama, Barack (2008). “A More Perfect Union.” 
  • Text
  • Video
• Wise, Tim. “Whites swim in racial preference.” (2003).

Session 3:

• Diangelo, Robbin. Chapter 1 and 12 of White Fragility
• Kendi, Ibram. Chapter 1 and Chapter 12 of How To Be Antiracist

Session 4:

• Combahee River Collective Statement
• Interview with Angela Davis
• Crenshaw, Kimberlé. “Demarginalizing the intersection of race and sex: A black feminist critique of antidiscrimination doctrine, feminist theory and antiracist politics.” u. Chi. Legal f. (1989): 139.

Marxist Responses

Session 5:

• Fields, Barbara. Ideology and Race in American History
• Reed Jr, Adolph. “Marx, race, and neoliberalism.” In New Labor Forum, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 49-57. Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications, 2013.
• Ellen Meiksins Wood. Class Race and Capitalism

Session 6:

• Gimenez, Martha E. “Marxism, and class, gender, and race: Rethinking the trilogy.” Race, Gender & Class (2001): 23-33.
• Foley, Barbara. “Intersectionality: A Marxist Critique.” In New Labor Forum, vol. 28, no. 3, pp. 10-13. Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications, 2019.
• Dixon, Bruce. “Intersectionality is a hole. Afro-Pessimism is a Shovel. We Need to Stop Digging” 

Session 7:

• Dobbin, Frank. “How Affirmative Action Became Diversity Management”
• Johnson, Cedric. “Panthers Can’t Save Us Now”
• Reed, Toure. “Between Obama and Coates”

Session 8:

• Reed Jr, Adolph. Antiracism: A Neoliberal Alternative 
• Fields, Barbara & Karen. Introduction to Racecraft
• Benn Michaels, Walter. “The Political Economy of Antiracism”
• Johnson, Cedric. Don’t Let Blackwashing Save the Investor Class