TEXTS:

Balanic, Von. 2007, Prejudice: Attitudes about race, class, and gender, Pearson Prentice Hall.

Marger, Martin.2004, Race and Ethnic Relations, (get the special edition for this class).

Mihesuah, Devon. 1996. American Indians: Stereotypes and Realities, Atlanta, GA: Clarity Press.

   Other readings: From Yellow Peril to Modern Minority, Doobo Shim Race as Chameleon: How the Idea of Race Changes Over Time, Howard Zinn Discrimination and the American Creed, Robert K. Merton Television and the Politics of Racial Representation, Justin Lewis and Sut Jhalley

"Japanese and Japanese-American Internment Documents" edited by Barbara Mori

Texts: The readings, Balanic and Marger are the main texts for the course. They cover the basic ideas and issues being discussed in the course. They should be read as we cover each section of the course and the sections to be read are found in the course schedule. Mihesuah will be the main book for the stereotyping paper.

Questions concerning the readings should be raised in class so that I can assist you in things that may be unclear.

Recommended Outside Readings

Jhally, Sut and Justin Lewis,1992, Enlighthened Racism, Westview.

William Petersen, 1997, Ethnicity Counts, Transaction Publications.

Seymour Martin Lipset,  1996. American Exceptionalism, Norton.

Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States.

James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me.

Charles Mindel, Robert Habenstein and Rossevelt Wright, Jr. eds. Ethnic Families in America.

Christopher Bates Doob Racism: An American Cauldron.

Steve Gregory and Roger Sanjek, eds. Race.

Michael Aheyahshe, Native Americans in Comic Books: A Critical Study, 2008, McFarland & Co.

Norman Yetman, ed. Minority and Majority: The Dynamics of Race and Ethnicity in America.

Phillip DeLoria 1998, Playing Indian.

Mica Pollock, 2004, Colormute: Race talk Dilemmas in an American school. 

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