SC361-6-SP-CO:
American Society: Ethnic Encounters in the Making of the USA

The details
2017/18
Sociology and Criminology
Colchester Campus
Spring
Undergraduate: Level 6
Current
Monday 15 January 2018
Friday 23 March 2018
15
27 March 2002

 

Requisites for this module
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Key module for

BA MT2R Criminology and American Studies

Module description

The Spring term will start by looking at the legacies of slavery including its contemporary relevance. We then proceed chronologically looking at segregation, Black Power criminal justice and affirmative action. The second part of the term will examine the history and politics of the Latino presence in the United States. This will consist of four linked lectures and discussions principally on US immigration policy and more specifically on the US-Mexico border, border crossing, and discussion of recent laws such as Arizona's 2010 SB1070 widely recognised to racially profile Mexican Americans.

Module aims

No information available.

Module learning outcomes

No information available.

Module information

Available as full option
Available as a half option (SC361-6-AU Autumn, SC361-6-SP Spring).
Available as an Outside Option
Available for third year students

Learning and teaching methods

No information available.

Bibliography

  • Dear, M. J. (2013) Why walls won't work: repairing the US-Mexico divide, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Madley, Benjamin. (2016) An American genocide: the United States and the California Indian catastrophe, 1846-1873, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. vol. The Lamar series in Western history
  • Fitzhugh, George. (1857) Cannibals All! or, Slaves Without Masters..
  • (19/2/2008) Tim Wise: On White Privilege.
  • Bryan Stevenson David Cole Jed S. Rakoff John Paul Stevens Elaine Blair Matthew Cobb Jerome Groopman Sue Halpern Elizabeth Drew Masha Gessen Joshua Jelly-Schapiro Fleur Jaeggy Michael Gorra. (2017) A Presumption of Guilt.
  • Wong, Felicia J. (2017) The hidden rules of race: barriers to an inclusive economy, New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press.
  • Coates, Ta-Nehisi. (2017) The origin of others: the Charles Eliot Norton lectures, 2016, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. vol. 2016
  • Colin Samson. (December 8, 2016) Civil liberties of indigenous people have long been suppressed at Standing Rock.
  • Rothstein, Richard. (2017) The color of law: a forgotten history of how our government segregated America, New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation.
  • Greenberg, Amy S. (2012) Manifest destiny and American territorial expansion: a brief history with documents, Boston, Mass: Bedford/St. Martin's.
  • dawsonera. (2002) The affirmative action debate, New York: Routledge.
  • “What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?”, http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/what-to-the-slave-is-the-fourth-of-july/
  • Begay, Manley A. (c2000) Spirit wars: Native North American religions in the age of nation building, Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Bowden, Henry Warner. (1981) American Indians and Christian missions: studies in cultural conflict, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. vol. Chicago history of American religion
  • Takaki, Ronald.‘Foreigners in their Native Land…’.
  • (2012) Arizona firestorm: global immigration realities, national media, and provincial politics, Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
  • Norgaard, Kari M. (2009-05) Bring the Salmon Home! Karuk Challenges to Capitalist Incorporation. vol. 35
  • Baldwin, James. (1965) WHITE MAN'S GUILT.
  • Schwarz, Maureen Trudelle. (c2001) Navajo lifeways: contemporary issues, ancient knowledge, Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.
  • Smith, Zadie.Getting In and Out : who owns Black pain?.
  • Martinez, David. (2011) The American Indian intellectual tradition: an anthology of writings from 1772 to 1972, Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
  • Voyles, Traci Brynne. (2015) Wastelanding: legacies of uranium mining in Navajo country, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
  • Andrews, William L. (1996) The Oxford Frederick Douglass reader, New York: Oxford University Press.
  • May, Elaine Tyler. (2017) Fortress America: how we embraced fear and abandoned democracy, New York: Basic Books.
  • Adams, David Wallace. (c1995) Education for extinction: American Indians and the boarding school experience, 1875-1928, Lawrence, Kan: University Press of Kansas.
  • Wilson, James. (1998) The Earth shall weep: a history of Native America, London: Picador.
  • EBSCOhost ebook collection. (2016) Indigenous peoples and colonialism: global perspectives, Malden, MA: Polity Press.
  • WHAT WAS OURS [DVD].
  • Fitzhugh, George. (1854) Sociology for the South.
  • Ebook Central. (c2012) Arizona firestorm: global immigration realities, national media, and provincial politics, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
  • Takaki, Ronald T. (c2008) A different mirror: a history of multicultural America, New York: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown, and Co. vol. Back Bay nonfiction
  • Deloria, Vine. (1988) Custer died for your sins : an Indian manifesto, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
  • Gigoux, Carlos. (2017) Indigenous peoples and colonialism: global perspectives, Cambridge: Polity Press.
  • Finkelman, Paul. (2003) Defending slavery: proslavery thought in the Old South : a brief history with documents, Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's. vol. The Bedford series in history and culture
  • Deloria, Vine. (1988) Custer died for your sins: an Indian manifesto, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press.
  • ebrary, Inc. (c2000) Spirit wars: Native North American religions in the age of nation building, Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Lowrey, Annie.Pain on the Reservation.
  • Swords, Alicia C. S. (c2011) Consuming Mexican labor: from the Bracero Program to NAFTA, Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
  • Cole, Teju. (2012) The White-Savior Industrial Complex - The Atlantic.
  • Cahn, Steven M. (2002) The affirmative action debate, New York: Routledge.
  • James Baldwin My Dungeon Shook, http://ww2.valdosta.edu/~cawalker/baldwin.htm
The above list is indicative of the essential reading for the course. The library makes provision for all reading list items, with digital provision where possible, and these resources are shared between students. Further reading can be obtained from this module's reading list.

Assessment items, weightings and deadlines

Coursework / exam Description Deadline Coursework weighting
Coursework   Reading Week Exercise     10% 
Coursework   ESSAY     90% 
Exam  Main exam: 120 minutes during Summer (Main Period) 

Exam format definitions

  • Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
  • In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
  • In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
  • In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary, for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.

Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.

Overall assessment

Coursework Exam
50% 50%

Reassessment

Coursework Exam
0% 0%
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Prof Colin Samson, email: samsc@essex.ac.uk.
Prof Colin Samson
Jane Harper, Student Administrator (Years 2/3), email: socugrad@essex.ac.uk, telephone: 01206 873052

 

Availability
Yes
Yes
No

External examiner

Dr Lydia Martens
The University of Keele
Senior Lecturer
Resources
Available via Moodle
Of 20 hours, 20 (100%) hours available to students:
0 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
0 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s).

 

Further information
Sociology and Criminology

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