Reading Assignments
1. Introduction
Required Readings:
Schaefer, Racial and Ethnic Groups, Chapter 1
Class Notes: "What is Sociology"
Class Notes: "Theoretical Perspectives"
2. Subordinate Groups in America: A Socio-historical Account
Required Readings:
"Timeline - Subordinate Groups in America, Part 1 --> 1899" [eReserve]
"Timeline - Subordinate Groups in America, Part 2: 1900 - 1917"
Reconstruction: Minstrel Shows, Jim Crow, & the South
"A Mini-Minstrel Show"
http://etext.virginia.edu/railton/enam358/minstrlsy.html
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/utc/minstrel/misohp.html
The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/
"Virtual Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia"
http://about.ferris.edu/HTMLS/News/jimcrow/
Lynching
Lynching in Texas
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/LL/jgl1.html
Lynching in America: Statistics, Information, Images
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/shipp/lynchstats.html
"Infamous Lynchings" [Spectacle lynchings]
http://www.americanlynching.com/infamous-old.html
The Duluth Lynchings, 1920, Minnesota Historical Society
http://collections.mnhs.org/duluthlynchings/
Richard M. Perloff, "The Press and Lynchings of African Americans "
http://academic.csuohio.edu/perloffr/lynching/
The Trial of Sheriff Joseph Shipp et al., 1907 [Sheriff Joseph F. Shipp, tried in the U. S. Supreme Court in 1907 (the only criminal trial in Supreme Court history) for his role in the lynching of Ed Johnson.]
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/shipp/shipp.html
"The Houston Riot of 1917," The Handbook of Texas, Online
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/HH/jch4.html
"The Longview Race Riot of 1919," The Handbook of Texas, Online
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/LL/jcl2.html
"The Beaumont Riot of 1943," The Handbook of Texas, Online
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/BB/jcb1.html
"Wilmington, North Carolina Riot, 1898"
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_riot.html
"Race Riot at Atlanta, 1906"
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_atlanta.html
"The Springfield Race Riot of 1908
http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/iht329622.html
"Race Riot at East St. Louis, 1917"
http://www.eslarp.uiuc.edu/ibex/archive/nunes/esl%20history/race_riot.htm
"Chicago Race Riot, 1919"
http://www.chipublib.org/004chicago/disasters/riots_race.html
"Race Riot at Washington, DC, 1919"
http://www.blackwallstreet.freeservers.com/washington_race_riot_of_1919.htm
Elaine, Arkansas Race Riot, 1919
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Race_Riot
"Tulsa Race Riot, 1921"
http://www.forgottenhistory.org/exhibits/tulsa.html
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_tulsa.html
Ghost Dance
http://www.hanksville.org/daniel/lakota/Ghost_Dance.html
The Haymarket Affair Digital Collection
http://www.chicagohistory.org/hadc/index.html
Events of the Pullman Strike
http://1912.history.ohio-state.edu/eventsOfPullmanStrike.htm
Child Labor in America 1908-1912: The Photographs of Lewis W. Hine"
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/
Ruth Limmer and Andrew S. Dolkart, "The Tenement As History And Housing" - The Tenement Museum
http://www.thirteen.org/tenement/eagle.html
The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/trianglefire/
Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
http://www.pbs.org/stantonanthony/
History of Women's Suffrage
http://www.rochester.edu/SBA/history.html
Women's Suffrage Pictures and Cartoons, 1850 - 1920
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/vfwhtml/vfwhome.html
Red Scare (1918-1921) Image Database
http://newman.baruch.cuny.edu/digital/redscare/
The Palmer Raids
http://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/hist409/red.html
3. The Study of Prejudice
Required Readings:
Schaefer, Racial and Ethnic Groups, Chapter 2
Class Notes: Power Point: Prejudice
Visit the following web sites:
Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project
http://www.densho.org/