| Schedule of Readings and Assignments |
Introduction |
WED AUGUST 27: Introduction. Attendance mandatory for students wishing to obtain or maintain enrollment. Start reading Skrentny, The Minority Rights Revolution
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| Week 1: Race and Gender Identity |
MONDAY SEPT 1: Race isn't real ... But is gender? WEDNESDAY SEPT 3: The development of identity politics
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| Week 2: Opportunity and Reaction in the 1960s |
MONDAY SEPT 8: Civil rights initiatives in the early 1960s WEDNESDAY SEPT 10: Was 1968 a turning point?
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| Week 3: Accomplishments and Persistent Inequality |
MONDAY SEPT 15: Accomplishments in education, employment and politics WEDNESDAY SEPT 17: Health care and criminal justice differences; persistent, feminine poverty |
| Week 4: Politics of Minority Rights |
MONDAY SEPT 22: Skrentny, The Minority Rights Revolution, chs. , pp. xx- xx. WEDNESDAY SEPT 24: Skrentny, The Minority Rights Revolution, chs. , pp. xx- xx. |
| Week 5: Midterm 1 |
MONDAY SEPT 29: Skrentny, The Minority Rights Revolution, chs. , pp. xx- xx. WEDNESDAY OCT 1: FIRST QUIZ IN CLASS |
| Week 6: |
MONDAY OCTOBER 6: Playing the Race Card in Political Campaigns WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 8: The emergence of an Anti-Sexist norm? |
| Week 7: First Paper Due |
MONDAY OCTOBER 13: FALL READING HOLIDAY WEDNESDAY OCT 15: Identity and Partisan Polarization 1, Kaufmann, Petrocik and Shaw, Unconventional Wisdom, chs. , pp. xx- xx. |
| Week 8: Voters as Group Members |
MONDAY OCTOBER 20: Identity and Partisan Polarization 2, Kaufmann, Petrocik and Shaw, Unconventional Wisdom, chs. , pp. xx- xx. WEDNESDAY OCT 22: Psychological links to groups |
| Week 9: Issue Evolution |
MONDAY OCTOBER 27: How race became a partisan issue WEDNESDAY OCT 29: How gender became a partisan issue |
| Week 10: Who Votes |
MONDAY NOVEMBER 3 Leighley WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 5: Leighley |
| Week 11: Midterm 2 |
MONDAY NOVEMBER 10: SECOND QUIZ IN CLASS WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 12: Leadership, ambition, pipeline |
| Week 12: Second Paper Due |
MONDAY NOVEMBER 17: Quotas, redistricting, parity WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 19: Marriage as a cure for poverty |
| Week 13 |
MONDAY NOVEMBER 24: The Prison Welfare State WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 26: Thanksgiving Break |
| Week 14 |
MONDAY DECEMBER 1: Health care politics WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 3:Buffer |
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