UNIT I: INTRODUCING DIVERSITY
Chapter 1: Introducing Diversity
1.1 Why Study Diversity?
1.2 Overview of Diversity Concepts
1.3 A Sociological Approach to Diversity
1.4 A Comparative Approach to Diversity
Chapter 2: Social Criticism
2.1 Reflexivity
2.2 Social Criticism in Open Societies
2.3 Repression and Social Criticism in Action
2.4 “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”: Discussion of Douglass’ Speech
Chapter 3: Why Talk About Race?
3.1 Race and Ethnicity
3.2 The Sociology of Race
3.3 The Politics of Hyphenated Identity
3.4 Self-Care: Studying Injustice
UNIT II: WHITENESS AND POWER
Chapter 4: European Global Colonization, 1492-1945
4.1 The Rise of the West
4.2 Stages of European Colonization
4.3 Comparative Colonialism
4.4 Decolonization and the Third World
Chapter 5: White Slaveholding, 1441-1888
5.1 Racialized Slavery
5.2 African Ethnicities
5.3 Slavery and the Founders
5.4 Blacks in the Antebellum United States
Chapter 6: Early Immigration and Nativism
6.1 Who are “Real Americans”?
6.2 Immigration and Expansion to 1860: Ireland, Germany, Mexico
6.3 The New Immigrants, 1860-1929: Europe, Mexico, East Asia
6.4 The New Nativism
Chapter 7: Whitening
7.1 The Social Construction of Race
7.2 Different Ways to Be White
7.3 Whitening: From White-Ethnic to White
7.4 Whitening: From Darker to Lighter
UNIT III: LEGACIES OF RACIALIZED SLAVERY
Chapter 8: Reconstruction and Apartheid, 1865-1968
8.1 Slavery and Civil War Causation
8.2 Reconstruction: Origins of Modern Civil Rights, 1865-1877
8.3 American Apartheid: Black Exclusion and White Terrorism, 1877-1968
8.4 Cold War Civil Rights
Chapter 9: Post-Civil Rights America in Comparative Perspective
9.1 Cycle of U.S. Racial Progress and Retreat
9.2 Colorblindness: Brazil and the United States
9.3 Race and Class
9.4 The Principles/Policy Paradox
Chapter 10: Obstacles to Genuine Racial Inclusion
10.1 White Normativity vs. Individual Prejudice
10.2 Understanding White Normativity
10.3 De Facto Residential Segregation
10.4 De Facto Educational Segregation
Chapter 11: More Obstacles to Racial Inclusion
11.1 Racial Injustice Timeline, 1968-2017
11.2 Differing Black-White Perspectives and Experiences
11.3 Police Abuse and Mass Incarceration
11.4 Health Disparities
UNIT IV: IMMIGRATION AND LATIN AMERICA
Chapter 12: U.S. Imperialism: Latin America and the Pacific, 1846-1945
12.1 Statehood and White Nationalism
12.2 American Exceptionalism and Manifest Destiny
12.3 Growth of American Republican Empire, 1846-1914
12.4 Empire of Liberty, 1898-1945
Chapter 13: American Globalism and Hispanic Immigration
13.1 Cold War Interventionism in Latin America, 1945-1989
13.2 Hispanics: The Largest Minority
13.3 Ambivalent Friendship: Mexico and the United States
13.4 Mexican Immigration
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