COURSE MATERIALS

COURSE FOLDER

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Click here to download biographies, editable theory maps, and select readings.

BOOKS

Bauman, Zygmunt. 2000. Liquid Modernity. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press. [10-digit ISBN: 0745624103]

Bourdieu, Pierre. 1998. Practical Reason: On the Theory of Action. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. [10-digit ISBN: 0804733635]

Collins, Patricia Hill. 2000. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Revised 10^th Anniversary 2^nd Edition). New York: Routledge. [10-digit ISBN: 0415924847].

Davis, Angela Y. [1981] 1983. Women, Race, & Class. New York: Vintage Books. [10-digit ISBN: 0394713516]

Fanon, Frantz. [1961] 2005. The Wretched of the Earth. New York: Grove Press. [10-digit ISBN: 0802141323]

Foucault, Michel. [1975] 1995. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. New York: Vintage Books. [10-digit ISBN: 0679752552]

Gramsci, Antonio. [1971] 1989. Selections from the Prison Notebooks. New York: International Publishers. [10-digit ISBN: 071780397X]

MacKinnon, Catharine A. 1989. Toward a Feminist Theory of the State. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. [10-digit ISBN: 0674896467]

Mies, Maria. [1986]. 2014. Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour (3^rd Edition). London: Zed Books. [10-digit ISBN: 1783601698]

Robinson, Cedric J. [1983] 2000. Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press. [10-digit ISBN: 0807848298]

Wilson, William Julius. 2009. More Than Just Race: Being Black and Poor in the Inner City. New York: W.W. Norton & Company. [10-digit ISBN: 0393337634]

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EXCERPT PACKET

A collection of excerpts from Marx and Engels, Durkheim, Weber, Du Bois, Beauvoir, and Cooper is available in the course folder.

GUIDES

This website include short reading summaries for every Assigned Theorist. These are also included in the PDF of the syllabus.[1]

Custom "theory maps" are also available on thiswebsite.

You should refer to these summaries and maps before, during, and after you read the assigned texts.

SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS

This website also includes links to additional readings. You must engage at least one of these readings in Exam I and Exam II.

[1] I wrote these reading summaries as abstracts for loosely planned discussions. I also wrote these because I wanted to offer a demystifying and synthesizing guide that students with varying backgrounds in theory training could refer to during, and hopefully beyond, this course. There are certainly downsides to this approach. But, given our ambitious reading schedule and course goals, I think the pros outweigh the cons.