article review one and two

Topic(s)

Course Objective(s)

Required Reading

1.Introduction: Diversity and American Politics

To assess the role of diversity within the context of American Politics.

Healey, Joseph F. “Diversity in the United States: Questions and Concepts,” In Diversity and society: Race, Ethnicity and Gender, Thousand Oaks: Pine Forge Press, 2010.

Castania, Kathy. “What is Diversity?” Cornell Cooperative Extension, 1996, http://extension.usu.edu/diversity/files/uploads/diversity704.pdf (accessed August 15, 2012).

Nauert, Rick. “Diversity Defined in Part by Ideology. Psych Central (March 2, 2012), http://psychcentral.com/news/2012/03/02/diversity-defined-in-part-by-ideology/35517.html (accessed August 1, 2012).

Jonas, Michael. “The Downside of Diversity.” The Boston Globe, August 5, 2007, News section, http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/ articles/2007/08/05/the_downside_of_diversity/?page=full (accessed August 1, 2012).

2.The United States Constitution and Contested Notions of Equality

To examine the constitutional foundations for equality in the American political system.

Required Reading

Turley, Jonathan. “Equal Right Redux: The Three-State Solution.” The Los Angeles Times, April 8, 2007, http://articles.latimes.com/print/2007/apr/08/opinion/op-turley8 (accessed August, 1, 2012).

Mansbridge, Jane. “Whatever Happened to the ERA?” In Women and the United States Constitution, ed. Sibyl A. Schwarzenback and Patricia Smith, 165-178. New York: University of Columbia Press, 2003.

Eastland, Terry. “Supreme Confusion.” Weekly Standard, vol. 8, no. 42 (July 2003), http://www.weeklystandard.com/supreme-confusion/article/4095 (assessed August 2, 2012).

Fletcher. George F. “Unsound Constitution.” The New Republic 26, 215 (1997): 14-19.

3.American Political Culture

To evaluate the concept of diversity within the American political culture.

Required Reading

Hochschild, Jennifer. “What is the American Dream?” Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class and the

Soul of the Nation, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1997, http://www.kropfpolisci.com/vod.hochschild.pdf (accessed August 2, 2012).

Hopfensperger, Jean. “Poverty Weaves Through the Lives of Many Americans.” The Star Tribune, October 18. 2003, http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00101.html (accessed August 2, 2012).

Wessel, David. “Racial Discrimination is Still at Work.” The Wall Street Journal, September 4, 2003, http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB106262466678910800 (accessed September 22, 2016).

Harrison, Lawrence H. “The End of Multiculturalism.” Christian Science Monitor, February 26, 2008, http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Opinion/2008/0226/p09s01-coop.html (accessed August 3, 2012).

4.Race and the American Political Process

To analyze the role of race and value of race in the American political process.

Required Reading

“When Government Fails – Katrina Aftermath.” The Economist, Special Report, September 10, 2005, http://www.economist.com/node/4382437 (accessed July 15, 2012).

“American Democracy in the Age of Rising Inequality.” American Political Science Association Task Force on Inequality and American Democracy, 2004, https://www.scribd.com/document/169369419/American-Democracy-in-the-Age-of-Rising-Inequality-Skocpol-Theda (accessed September 22, 2016).

Brooks, Richard R.W. and Jeon-Slaughter, Haekyung. “Race, Income, and Perceptions of the US Court System.” Behavioral Sciences & the Law, vol. 19 no. 2 (May 2001), pp. 249-264.

Muaer, Marc. “Race, Poverty, and Felon Disenfranchisement.” Poverty and Race Research Action Council (July/August 2002). http://www.prrac.org/full_text.php (accessed July 25, 2012).