--NY Times article

http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/082200sci-genetics-race.html

--Peter L. Berger, The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion, chapters 1 and 2.

--“Do Races Differ?  Not Really, DNA Shows”  NY Times article

Sept 10           Race as Social Construction

--Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham "African-American Women's History and the Metalanguage of Race," Signs 17 (Winter 1992): 251-274.

--First response paper due in class

Sept 12           Colonial Encounters:  European and Native American

--James Axtell, The Invasion Within:  The Cultural Origins of North America , Chapter 7  (131-178)

Sept 17           Savages and Christians (Primary Sources)

 --The Captivity Narrative of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

Sept 19                       Africans in the Americas

Sept 24                       Atlantic Slavery:  Historical Primary Sources

Sept 26                       Racial formations in Progress

--James B. Bennett, “Catholics, Creoles, and the Redefinition of Race in New Orleans ” In H Goldschmidt and E. McAlister , eds. Religion and Race in the Americas , Oxford University Press, forthcoming

Oct 1               Changing Self-Representations

--Long Lance (Film)

Paper #1 Due in Class

Oct 3               Asians, African Americans, and Missionaries

--Derek Chang, “Marked in Body, Mind, and Spirit”: Home Missionaries and the Re-Making of Race and Nation” In H Goldschmidt and E. McAlister , eds. Religion and Race in the Americas , Oxford University Press, forthcoming

--Lani Guinier Lectures in Crowell Concert Hall 8 pm :  Highly Recommended

--Daniel Lee, “A Great Racial Commission:  Religion and the Construction of White America” in H Goldschmidt and E. McAlister , eds. Religion and Race in the Americas , Oxford University Press, forthcoming

Oct 10             Politics and Paranoia

--Judith Weisenfeld, “Difference as Evil” in Dixie and West, eds,  The Courage to Hope

 --Richard Hofstadter, "The Paranoid Style in American Politics,"  in The Fear of Conspiracy: Images of Un-American Subversion from the Revolution to the Present

 --"The International Jew: The World's Foremost Problem" and "Jewish Activities in the United States ," The Dearborn Independent in The Fear of Conspiracy

Oct 17 No Class  (See Oct 21)

Oct 22             Anti-Judaism and Anti-Semitism in the USA

 --Sander Gilman, The Jew's Body, 169-193; 234-243.

Oct 24             Ethiopianism and Rastafari

 --“Hutton and Murrell, “Rastas’ Psychology of Blackness, Resistance, and Somebodiness” in Murrell, ed., Chanting Down Babylon :  The Rastafari Reader.

 --Murrell and Williams, “The Black Biblical Hermeneutics of Rastafari.” ” in Murrell, ed., Chanting Down Babylon :  The Rastafari Reader.

Oct 29             Black God for Everyone

 --Jill Watts, God, Harlem U.S.A. , The Father Divine Story

Oct 31             Sweet Daddy Grace and Father Divine

 --Danielle Brune, “Beyond the Binary:  Revisiting Father Divine, Daddy Grace, and their Ministries” in H. Goldschmidt and E. McAlister , eds. Religion and Race in the Americas , Oxford University Press, forthcoming

Nov 5             Race, Religion and the Law

 --Jennifer Snow, “The Civilization of White Men:  The Race of the Hindu in U.S. vs. Bhagat Singh Thind”  in H. Goldschmidt and E. McAlister , eds. Religion and Race in the Americas , Oxford University Press, forthcoming

Nov 7             Racialized Eschatologies

 --David Chidester, Salvation and Suicide:  An Interpretation of Jim Jones, the People's Temple , and Jonestown,  Peface through Chapter two

Nov 11           Paper #2 Due in McAlister’s Box in Religion Dept by 4:00 pm

Nov 12           Race Traitor?

 --David Chidester, Salvation and Suicide:  An Interpretation of Jim Jones, the People's Temple , and Jonestown,  Chapter three through Epilogue

 --Noel Ignatiev Interview:  “Treason to Whiteness is Loyalty to Humanity.” In Critical White Studies

--Karen McCarthy Brown, Mama Lola:  A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn . 

 Esp focus on Intro , Ch. 8, 6

Nov 19           Mama Lola and New York Racial Formations

 --Karen McCarthy Brown, Mama Lola:  A Vodou Priestess in Brooklyn ,

Ch 9,10, 11,

 --E. McAlister, "Vodou and Catholicism in the Age of Transnationalism:  The Madonna of 115th Street Revisited."  In R. Stephen Warner, ed.,  Gatherings in Diaspora:  Religious Communities and the New Immigration. 

Nov 26           Race, The Middle East and US Cultural Politics

 --Melani McAlister, Epic Encounters, Preface, Intro , Ch. 2

Dec 3                          Multiculturalism and the Terrorist Threat

 --Melani McAlister, Epic Encounters, Ch 5, 6, Conc.

Dec 5              Religion, Race and Film

--"White," by Richard Dyer
--Judith Weisenfeld, "Projecting Blackness: African-American Religion in the Hollywood Imagination" in H. Goldschmidt and E. McAlister, eds. Religion and Race in the Americas, Oxford University Press, forthcoming