Location: Seelye 201
Time: Fridays from 2:45-4:00 p.m.
Students may earn one credit. Staff and faculty may audit. Here are instructions on how to audit.
9/8 Introduction
- Welcome, develop group norms, discuss framework
- Resources for further exploration:
- Keith Payne, “The Truth about Anti-White Discrimination,” July 18, 2019
- Nicholas Hune-Brown, “The Marley Hypothesis: Who Actually Sees Racism?” Mar. 13, 2014
- Allison Wiltz, “Why the Fight against Racism Should Start in the Classroom,” Writers and Editors of Color Magazine (May 2023)
9/15
- Laura Katz class on disentangling the facts and myths surrounding both the origin and diversification of our species (Homo sapiens)
- Please read the following before class and complete this handout:
- Andrew Curry, “The Milk Revolution“
- Rex Dalton, “Fossil Rewrites Early Human Evolution,” Nature 461.8 (Oct. 2009)
- Eleanor M. Scerri, “One Species, Many Roots?” Nature Ecology & Evolution 7 (Jul. 2023): 975-76.
- Claude Steele and Joshua Aronson, “Stereotype Threat and the Intellectual Test Performance of African Americans” (1995)
9/22
- Alice Nash guest lecture: “Indigenous Is Not a Racial Category”
- Read: Elizabeth M. Hoover, “Letter of Apology and Accountability,” May 1, 2023
- Read or listen: Julia Furukawa, “Review of genealogies, other records fails to support local leaders’ claims of Abenaki ancestry,” New Hampshire Public Radio (11 min segment). Be sure to read the “Editor’s Note” at the bottom of the page.
- Read: Peter d’Errico, “Brackeen v. Haaland, the Indian Child Welfare Act case now in the Supreme Court: Seen in Perspective,” November 7, 2022
Recommended for additional context:
- Adrienne Keene, “A Letter to Elizabeth Hoover,” May 2, 2023.
- Kim Tall Bear, “We are not your dead ancestors: Playing Indian and white possession.” Read or listen to her talk.
- Adrian J Ivakhiv, Reindigenization & allyship, part 3: On getting it right, Immanence: Media, Culture, Politics (UVM Blogs), posted September 21, 2022.
9/29
- Floyd Cheung lecture: “Citizenship and Race: The Case of Asian Americans”
- Please read the following before class: selection from Angelo Ancheta, Race, Rights, and the Asian American Experience [content warning: physical violence on p. 7-; n-word quoted on p. 10; racism throughout
10/6 No Class
10/13
- Rachel Rubinstein guest lecture: “Racial Confusion: Jewishness, Racial Formation, and the Many Faces of Antisemitism”
- Please read “Understanding Antisemitism” before class
10/20
- Javier Puente lecture: “Columbus Must Fall: Colonialism, Race, and Contemporary Revolt in the Americas”
- Please read the following before class: Quijano and Ennis, “Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism, and Latin America
10/27
- Jen Malkowski lecture: “No Such Thing as Neutral: Racism and Technology Design”
- Please read the following before class: Noble, Safiya Umoja. “A Society, Searching.” In Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism, 15-34, 56-63. New York: NYU Press, 2018.
11/3
- Debrief Cromwell Day (11/2) learnings
11/10
- Loretta Ross lecture on racialized capitalism
- Please read the following before class:
- Arun Kundnani, “What is Racial Capitalism?” Talk delivered on Oct. 15, 2020
- Nicholas Lemann, “Is Capitalism Racist?” New Yorker (May 18, 2020)
11/17
- Jina Kim lecture: “Race and the Disability Justice Movement.”
- Please read the following before class:
- Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, “Cripping the Apocalypse: Some of my Wild Disability Justice Dreams”
- Patty Berne, “Disability Justice–A Working Draft”
- Leah Lakshmi Piepnza-Samarasinha, “Crip Fairy Godmother”
11/24 No Class
12/1
- Ginetta E. B. Candelario ‘90 Lecture: “So how does this all play out at Smith? Race, Racism and Anti-racism from the 1980’s to Today”
- Please read the following before class:
- “Weaving Voices Archive” site (https://sites.smith.edu/weaving-voices-archives/)
- Edward McClure’s obituary (https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/bostonglobe/name/edward-mcclure-obituary?id=2222895)
- https://www.smith.edu/newsoffice/releases/04-039.html
- https://newint.org/blog/majority/2014/10/16/women-wambui-mwangi
- Candelario’s 2014 Op-Ed (https://www.gazettenet.com/Archives/2014/05/candelarioGUEST-hg-051714)
- The Life and Legacy of Otelia Cromwell
- https://moodle.smith.edu/pluginfile.php/1582665/mod_page/content/7/CSAC.pdf
- https://moodle.smith.edu/pluginfile.php/1582665/mod_page/content/7/Public%20Policy%20Model%20%20Smith%20Conf%20Agenda-1%20%281%29.pdf
- https://moodle.smith.edu/pluginfile.php/1582665/mod_page/content/7/SMITH%20DESIGN%20FOR%20INSTUTIONAL%20DIVERSITY.pdf