POLS 4930 Special Topics: American Race Relations

POLS 4930 Special Topics: American Race Relations,

POLS 4930 Special Topics: American Race Relations

The Meaning of Race/Ethnicity.

Michael Omi. 2001. “The Changing Meaning of Race.” In Smelser, Wilson, and
Mitchell, eds. America Becoming, National Academy Press.

Meaning of Race in the United States

Gossett, Thomas F. (1963) Race: The History of an Idea in America. Chap 1 & 2.

Meaning of Race in Outside of the U.S.

Degler, Carl N. 1971. Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and
the United States. Chap 1 & 2.

Race/Ethnicity and the American Political Experience

Smith, Rogers. 1993. Beyond Tocqueville, Myrdal, and Hartz: The Multiple Traditions in
America. American Political Science Review. v87 n3

Are Blacks, Latinos and Asians Political Groups?

Bobo, Lawrence and Vincent L. Hutchings. 1996. “Perceptions of Racial Group
Competition: Extending Blumer’s Theory of Group Position to a Multiracial Social
Context.” American Sociological Review. (Dec 1996). Pp. 951-972

Voting Rights

Bruce Cain (1992). “Voting Rights and Democratic Theory: Toward A Color Blind
Society” in Grofman and Davidson, Controversies in Minority Voting: The Voting Rights
Act in Perspective. Pp 261-277

Minority Voting

Tate, Katherine. 1993. From Protest to Politics: The New Black Voters in American Elections. Russell Sage and Harvard University Press. Ch 4-6.

White Attitudes

Lawrence Bobo (2001). “Racial Attitudes and Relations at the Close of the Twentieth
Century” In Neil Smelser et al, America Becoming: Racial Trends and Their
Consequences Vol I. Pp 264-301

Black and Latino Attitudes

Gay, Claudine. 2004. “Putting Race in Context: Identifying the Environmental
Determinants of Black Racial Attitudes.” American Political Science Review 94(4):547-
562.

Race, Crime and The Legal System

Bobo, Lawrence D. and Devon Johnson. 2004. “A Taste for Punishment: Black and
White Americans’ Views on the Death Penalty and the War on Drugs.” Dubois Review
1(1):151-180.