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TERM ONE

Week One:   September 10  DEFINING RACE and Ethnicity
Readings:  Das Gupto Chapter 2
Suggested: T. McCauley Chapter 1 “Canadian Culture in a Global Context” in McCauley and Hill.

Week Two:   September 17  Race and Progress
Readings:   Das Gupta Chapter 1 & 3
Suggested:  Wallis and Fleras  Chapter 10“Theorizing Connections: Race, Ethnicity and Class” and Chapter 11 “The Ideology of Racism”

Week Three: September 24  Theoretical Orientations to Racialization and the Law   
Readings: Das Gupta Chapter 8
Suggested: Wallis and Fleras “Conceptualizing the Politics of Race: Taking Race Seriously”

Week Four:  October 1  Biology as Destiny  
Readings:  Das Gupta Chapter Chapter 4
Suggested:  Wallis and Fleras Chapters 1 to 3

Week Five:  Oct 8  Biology as Ideology
 Readings: Das Gupta Chapters 6 & 7
Suggested:  Robert Brym Society in Question Part 2a R.C. Lewontin “Biology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA”

Week Six:  Oct 15 Colonialism and Race
Readings: Das Gupta Parts 2a and 2b; Chan and Mirchandani  Chapter 2.
Suggested: Wallis and Fleras Chapter 4 to 8

Week Seven    Oct 22    Thinking Race in the 21st Century
Readings:   Das Gupta Chapters 9 to 13
Suggested: Wallis and Fleras Chapters 13 to 15

Week Eight: Oct 29 From Race and Crime to Criminalizaton and Racialization  
Readings:  Chan and Mirchandani  Chapter 1
Suggested: Wallis and Fleras Chapters 11 to 12

Week Nine:  Nov 5  Race, Class and Gender
Readings:  Chan and Mirchandani  Chapter 3
Suggested:  Wallis and Fleras Chapters 9 & 10

Week Ten:  Nov 12  Race and the Law
Readings:   Chan and Mirchandani  Chapter 5 & 6
Suggested:  Wallis and Fleras Chapter 1 (re-read), Wallis and Fleras Chapter 21

Week Eleven:  Nov 19 Racialization and the Law
Readings:  Chan and Mirchandani  Chapter 4
Suggested: Wallis and Fleras Chapters 16 & 17

Week Twelve:  Nov 26  Race and Social Statistics
Readings:   Chan and Mirchandani  Chapter 6
Suggested: Wallis and Fleras Chapter 19 & 20

TERM TWO

Week 13:  Jan 7  Race and Social Institutions: Education
Readings:  Das Gupta Part 3a

Week 14:  Jan 14  Race and Social Institutions: Employment
Readings:  Das Gupta Part 3b

Week 15:  Jan 21 Race and Social Institutions: Media
Readings:  Das Gupta Part 3c

Week 16:   Jan 28  Race and Social Institutions: The Justice System
Readings:  Das Gupta Part 3d

Week 17:  Feb 4 Race, Racialization: The Aboriginal Case
Readings: Chan and Mirchandani  Chapters 8 & 9

Week 18:  Feb 18 Race, Racialization:  The Black Case
Readings:  Chan and Mirchandani  Chapters 10, 11, 12

Week 19 Feb 25   Street Gangs
Readings: Chan and Mirchandani  Chapter 7, Chapter 8 (review)

Week 19 Mar 4   Race, Privilege and Identity I
Readings: Das Gupta Part 4a Chapters 32, 33, 34

Week 20 Mar 11   Race, Privilege and Identity II
Readings: Das Gupta Part 4a Chapters  35, 36

Week 21  Mar 18 Working Against Racism
Readings: Das Gupta Part 4b Chapters  37, 38

Week 22 Mar 25  Working Against Racism
Readings: Das Gupta Part 4b Chapters  39, 40, 41

Week 23  April 1 Final Exam

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