Week 4: Tue, Jan 23

Readings (complete BEFORE class)

• Au, W. (2007). Chapter Two - Inheriting Inequality: Standardized Testing and The Rationality of Social Control, Unequal by design: High-stakes testing and the standardization of inequality.
• Hannah-Jones, N. (2019). Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. Black Americans have fought to make them true., New York Times.
• Hurwitz, L. & Bourque, S. (2014). Settler Colonialism Primer, Unsettling America: Decolonization in Theory & Practice.
• Roth, W., van Stee, E., & Regla-Vargas, A. (2023). Conceptualizations of Race: Essentialism and Constructivism, Annual Review of Sociology.
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• Au, W. (2009). Unequal by design: high-stakes testing and the standardization of inequality, Routledge.
• Harris, C. (1993). Whiteness as Property, Harvard Law Review.
• Katz, W. L. (2012). Black Indians: a hidden heritage, Atheneum Books for Young Readers.
• Omi, M & Winant, H. (1989). Racial formation in the United States, Routledge.
• Takaki, R. (2008). A different mirror: a history of multicultural America, Back Bay Books.
• Tuck, E. & Yang, K. W. (2012). Decolonization is not a metaphor, Atheneum Books for Young Readers.
  • Slavery is a Metaphor: A Critical Commentary on Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang’s “Decolonization is Not a Metaphor” is a great follow up read!