Race and the "Other": Image or Reality?

September 2 Labor Day
September 4

Racial identity and racial formation

  •   W.E.B. Du Bois: The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study. (Source: Farganis, Chapter 6, pp. 167-171)
  • W.E.B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk. (Source: Farganis, Readings in Social Theory. Chapter 6, pp. 171-178)
  • Anthony Appiah, Racial Identities. P.362-370 in Seidman/Alexander, The New Social Theory Reader. London. (Reserve)
  • Michael Omi and Howard Winant, Racial Formation. P. 371-384 in Seidman/Alexander, The New Social Theory Reader. London (Reserve)
September 6

Constructing the "Other"

  • Edward Said, Orientalism. P. 384-387 in Seidman/Alexander, The New Social Theory Reader. London. (Reserve)
  • Avishai Margalit and Ian Buruma, Occidentalism. New York Book Review. 17 January 2002,http://www.nybooks.com/articles/15100 (Reserve)
  • Homi Bhabha, The Other Question: Stereotype, Discrimination and the Discourse of Colonialism. P. 388-402 in Seidman/Alexander, The New Social Theory Reader. London. (Reserve)

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