Listed in: Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, as LJST-374 | Political Science, as POSC-474
Formerly listed as: LJST-39 | POSC-74
Kristin Bumiller (Section 01)
(Offered as POSC 474 [SC] and LJST 374.) This seminar explores how the civil rights movement began a process of social change and identity-based activism. We evaluate the successes and failures of “excluded” groups’ efforts to use the law. We primarily focus on the recent scholarship of theorists, legal professionals, and activists to define “post-identity politics” strategies and to counteract the social processes that “normalize” persons on the basis of gender, sexuality, disability, and class. This course fulfills the requirement for an advanced seminar in Political Science.
Requisite: One introductory Political Science course or its equivalent. Limited to 15 students. Fall semester. Professor Bumiller.
If Overenrolled: Priority will be given to seniors and political science majors
Cost: $12.00 ?
Section 01
Tu 02:30 PM - 05:00 PM CONV 207
| ISBN | Title | Publisher | Author(s) | Comment | Book Store | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness | The New Press | Michelle Alexander | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Silent Covenants: Brown V. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform | Oxford University Press | Derrick Bell | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| The Lives of Animals | Princeton University Press | J. M. Coetzee | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Making Rights Real: Activists, Bureaucrats, and the Creation of the Legalistic State | University of Chicago press | Charles R. Epp | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| The Neutered Mother, the Sexual Family and Other Twentieth Century Tragedies | Routledge | Martha Albertson Fineman | Amherst Books | TBD | ||
| Fat Rights: Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood | New York University Press | Anna Kirkland | Amherst Books | TBD |
These books are available locally at Amherst Books.