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Race an Order Description These are the works we read in class: Week 1: Course Introduction; Class and Power Gilbert, The Dimensions of Class Kornhauser, Power Elite or Veto Groups? Week 2: Urban Space and Power: Urban Ecology and Political Economy, Urban Renewal Palen, Structure and Organization of American Cities Feagin, Building American Cities Levy, Contemporary Urban Planning Hines, Housing, Baseball, and Creeping Socialism Week 3: Race and Public Policies: Development and Historic Preservation Saito, The Politics of Exclusion, Chapters 1, 2, 3 Week 4: Community Benefits Agreements; Universities and Development: USC Saito and Truong, The L.A. Live Community Benefits Agreement Roseman et al., A University and a Neighborhood: USC Redevelopment Plan. Hoover Redevelopment Project USC 1966 Master Plan The Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles EIR II. Project Description Time Princeton Review 1999 Media Advisory Unidad July 24 Unidad Press Conference Saillant, LA Panel Puts Hold on USC Plan Joint Public Statement Dec 2012 Week 5: Race and Poverty, Preliminary outline due in section Lewis, The Culture of Poverty Ryan, The Art of Savage Discovery-How to Blame the Victim Bonilla-Silva, The Central Frames of Color-Blind Racism Week 6: WalMart Gereffi and Christian, The Impacts of Wal-Mart Freeman, Wal-Mart Supercenters Dube and Jacobs, Hidden Cost of Wal-Mart Jobs Saillant, In Panorama City, a Wal-Mart's not so unwelcome Zahniser, Wal-Mart plans to open grocery store in L.A.'s Chinatown Bloomekatz, Thousands rally against Wal-Mart in Chinatown Newton, A Proposed Wal-Mart Grocery Store Week 7: The Global Economy and the Working Poor 4 Bonacich and Appelbaum, Behind the Label, Chapters Introduction, 1, 2, 3 Schmitt, Why Does the Minimum Wage Have No Discernible Effect on Employment? Week 8: MIDTERM: THURSDAY MARCH 5, 2015 The Global Economy and the Working Poor, continued Week 9: Sports and Development, Preliminary paper due in section Sze, Sports Teams and Sports Complexes: Race, Ethnicity, Representation Clark, “Indian” Mascots and the Pathology of Anti-Indigenous Racism Leiva, ‘Just Win, Baby!’ The Raider Nation and Second Chances for Black and Brown L.A. Lipsitz, Space, Sports and Spectatorship *Guest speaker Priscilla Leiva (UT Austin) Supplemental/Optional: For additional insight, look up articles by journalist Dave Zirin SPRING BREAK Monday-Saturday March 16-21 Week 10: Representations of Race in Media and Social Science Lipsitz, Possessive Investment in Whiteness Hannerz, Selections from Soulside: Inquiries into Ghetto Culture and Community Kelley, ‘Looking for the ‘Real’ Nigga: Social Scientists Construct the Ghetto Yuen, Playing ‘Ghetto’: Embodiments of South Central in Popular Culture Omi and Winant, Introduction to Racial Formation in the United States (Pages 1-10 only) Supplemental/Optional: Hunt, Introduction: Dreaming of Black Los Angeles Gray, Introduction to Watching Race: Television and the Struggle for Blackness Greco Larson, Selections from Media & Minorities Shohat, Ella, and Robert Stam. Pages 189-204 in Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the Media Week 11: Race and Criminal Justice: Incarceration, Police Brutality, and Responses Thompson, Why Mass Incarceration Matters Bonilla and Rosa, #Ferguson digital supplement (please spend some time exploring this link): http://americanethnologist.org/2015/ferguson-digitial-protest-february-2015/ Sears, Urban Rioting in Los Angeles Supplemental/Optional: Alexander, New Jim Crow, Chapters 1 & 2 Tucker, et al., Imprisoning the Family: Incarceration in Black Los Angeles Cuevas, Race and the L.A. Human Wilson, Inventing Black-on-Black Violence: Discourse, Space, and Representation 5 Week 12: The Latino Threat: Race, Latinidad, Immigration, and the “I”-word Chávez, Introduction to Latino Threat Plascencia, The “Undocumented” Mexican Migrant Question (pages 2-43 of the PDF) Rosa, Contesting Representations of Immigration (only 2 pages) Díaz, Latinos at the Margins of Celebrity Culture *Guest speaker via Skype: Jonathan Rosa (UMass Amherst) Supplemental/Optional: Frasure-Yokle and Greene, Black Views Towards Proposed Undocumented Immigrant Policies Dávila, Introduction to Latino Spin