SYLLABI, TEACHING JOURNALS, NOTES, AND COURSE PROPOSALS FROM JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE

[Undated]
HIST/LIT. 210 RACE AND THE URBAN SITUATION MS. AUDRE LORDE
                         OR
“CIVILIZATION OR DEATH TO ALL AMERICAN SAVAGES”
(Officer’s toast, 1779)

DISCUSSION TOPICS & ASSIGNED READINGS

INTRODUCTION – What is a race?

Defining racism
not ethnocentrism; bias; prejudice; bigotry; discrimination are there ‘unconscious’ racism; degrees of racism
READING:    Suggested- Allport-The Nature of Prejudice

Racism in America
western values for ‘Black’
slavery & racism in other societies coloured; negro; & Black
READINGS:     Required; Schwartz & Disch pages 1-50; Boggs ‘Uprooting Racism’
Suggested: Gosset, Thomas- Race, The History Of An Idea
What is a racist society? Institutionalized racism: The subjective racism – personal function the objective racism – utility and profit Metaracism
READING: Required; Kovel- pages 211-230; also Chapter II
Suggested; Boggs- ‘Uprooting Racism’, p 146

Mechanics Of Oppression
Dehumanization – the images and its acceptance

Stereotyping Instruction of history
pseudo-scientific rationales
READINGS: Required; Schwartz & Disch pages 384-442
Suggested: Carlson, Lewis- In Their Place pp 97-115
Division – class conflict & the american dream
other myths that divide; matriarchy; who’s blacker’n who; Blackness defined as deprivation
READINGS: Required; Schwartz & Disch pages 442 - 452; 263 - 270
Suggested: Gosset, 144-197; 409-430; Boggs – “Black Capitalism”- pp 135
Effects of Racism on White Americans the true dehumanization
fear & guilt: projection & acting out the acceptance of one’s own oppression
READINGS: Required; Schwartz pages 155-162; 189 - 207;
251-258
Suggested; Kovel – chapter 4; & Howe, Louise The White Majority
Effects of racism on Black Americans
The internalized stereotype
self-expectations & ‘who d’ya think you are? ‘identification with white’
self definition & self-acceptance
Disunity
who am I so who are you horizontal anger
your foot on my neck or my foot on your neck : other choices
Fear
the desire to lull & pacify the oppressor adopting dysfunctional values
The here and now
can we separate ideology & values from action?

READINGS: Suggested: Staples, Robert. The Black Family Boggs, James
Kennedy, Flo. Racism and Sexism in
Morgan, Sisterhood Is Powerful Cade, Toni. The Black Woman: An Anthology Baldwin, James. Notes Of A Native Son
FREEDOMWAYS, Fall, 1971.
“Jensenism, the New Racism”

OTHER ASSIGNMENTS
READ: Bennett, Lerone. Before the Mayflower. Question on the Midterm Exam, Oct. 30
Outside project report: to be assigned following Midterm

Book Reports – three. To be discussed in class. one page.
Weekly Journal – one page written weekly on some point or points made in class discussions. s
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HISTORY/LITERATURE 210   --
DISCUSSION TOPICS and READINGS
all page references are for Schwartz & Disch, White Racism .
Techniques of Oppression -pp. 155-162; 385-452
Psychological
Dehumanization Stereotyping Destruction of history Invisibility
Pseudo---Scientific rationales
Division
Class conflict and the american dream Identification with the dominant group
Material
Political   pp. 508-518
Economic   pp.324-333
Social   pp.121-140 Education pp.302-315
Religion   pp.270-285
Physical
Ghetto-making   pp.352-362 Violence   pp.228-251; 373-381
RECOMMENDED READINGS _ ADDITIONAL;
Kovel, Joel. White Racism: A Psychohistory Murray, Albert. The Omni-Americans
Gossett, Thomas. Race: The History of An Idea
THE BLACK SCHOLAR--A Journal of Black Studies and Research
3/70-Black Psychology Issue: 6/70-Black Culture Issue

Effects of Racism
Dominant Group pp.167-182; 189-217
Guilt; rationalization
Fear; projection and acting-out
Acceptance of their own oppression
Need for a victim
Subordinate Group pp.182-189
Internalization of stereotypes
Identification with dominant group
Disunity
Desire to lull and pacify oppressor
Anger

RECOMMENDED ADDITIONAL READINGS
-Jones, Leroi. Home.
Major, Clarence. New Black Poetry.

Grier & Cobbs. Black Rage. Seale, Bobby. Seize the Time.
Cleaver, Eldridge. Soul On Ice; also, Post Prison Writings. Autobiography of Malcolm X
Murray, Albert. The Omni-Americans Where WE Are
Introduction
Defining racism
Ethnocentrism, Bias, Prejudice, Bigotry, Discrimination
‘Unconscious’ Racism
Relationship between beliefs, attitudes, and actions
Racism in America Schwartz- p. 1-50
‘Black’ in western Culture   Gossett-p.3-17
Coloured to Negro to Black
Racism in other societies
What is a racist society    Kovel- chapter 2
Institutionalized racism   Boggs- objective & subjective racists
utility factor: Indians, slavery, etc.

Mechanics of Oppression
Dehumanization    Schwartz-p. 385-452
Stereotyping: the invisible man Destruction of history
Pseudo-scientific rationales -  Gossett-p.144-197; 409-430
Violence: physical and otherwise - Sch.-p.228-251;
182-189;302-314
Division: class conflict & the american dream- Boggs-‘Uprooting…’
‘ Metaracism’ -     Kovel-p.211-230
Kerner Report-Introduction & Conclusions

Effects of Racism - White Americans
The true dehumanization Schwartz-p. 155-162

Fear: projection & acting out & guilt
Acceptance of own oppression      Schwartz p.251-258
Kovel- chapter 4

Effects of Racism – Black Americans    “BLACK GIRL”
Internalization of Stereotypes a play at Theatre
self expectations    De Lys, NYC. by 11/17 ‘identification with whiteness’ see also ‘SUGGESTED
who am I; self acceptance    READINGS’
Disunity: the suspect self who are you
horizontal anger
Fear
desire to lull & pacify oppressor dysfunctional values
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‘There must be something the matter with him because he would not be acting as he does
unless there was therefore he is acting as he is
because there is something the matter with him…’
from Knots, by R.D. Laing

SUGGESTED READINGS and OUTSIDE ASSIGNMENTS

ASSIGNMENTS
Films: dates to be announced in class
“Black History: Lost, Stolen or Strayed” “The Warsaw Ghetto”

“ [illegible] a play. Theatre De Lys – 121 Christopher St., NYC WA 4-8782

The above are required assignments

SUGGESTED READINGS – BY DISCUSSION TOPICS
Defining Racism
BLACK SCHOLAR Magazine – 3/70; 6/70 ( in JJ Library ) Laing, R.D. The Politics of Experience

Racism in America
Van den Berghe, Pierre. Race and Racism -, Hardcover Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time. Essays
Stein, Gertrude. “Melanctha” in Three Lives Kitano, Harry. American Racism

Mechanics of Oppression
Wright, Richard. Native Son. Fict. Jones, LeRoi. Home: Essays
FREEDOMWAYS, Fall, 1971. “Jensenism; the New Racism” Perio. Article

Effects of Racism – White Americans Television program: “All In The Family”
King, Larry. Confessions Of A White Racist. Hardcover

Effects of Racism – Black Americans
The BLACK SCHOLAR: THE CARRIBEAN REVIEW:
FREEDOMWAYS. Periodicals
Frazier, E. Franklin. The Negro Family In The United States, Rev.ed.
Cade, Toni. The Black Woman, An Anthology Staples, R. The Black Family
The Autobiography of Malcolm X Larsen, Nella. Quicksand. Fiction Thomas, Piri. Down These Mean Streets
Baldwin, James. Notes Of A Native Son. Essays
AMISTAD I and AMISTAD II;
anthologies of contemp. writings

Hare, Nathan. The Black Anglo-Saxons Ladner, Joyce. Tomorrow’s Tomorrow
BLACK SCHOLAR, 9/71; ‘The Black Man’ issue Murray, Albert. The Omni-Americans