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Gender, Race, and Science
PH 436/636
Tues/Thurs: 2:00-3:15


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I. RACE

1.   Introduction
Sept. 4
Introduction to the course
Sept. 6
Documentary: "Stay Woke: The Black Lives Matter Movement"
Washington Post: Fatal Force
Ta-Nehisi Coates - "The First White President"

2.   Racism & Oppression
Sept. 11
Lawrence Blum - "Racism: Its Core Meaning"
Sept. 13
Sally Haslanger - "Oppressions: Racial and Other"
Philip Lewis - "What is Reverse Racism?"
Peggy McIntosh - "White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Backpack"

3.   Slavery & Criminal Justice
Sept. 18
Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow Ch. 1
Ta-Nehisi Coates - "The Case for Reparations"
Sept. 20
Michelle Alexander - The New Jim Crow Chs. 2-3

4.   Standpoint Epistemology
Sept. 25
Charles Mills - "White Ignorance"
Sept. 27
This American Life podcast - "The Problem We All Live With"
Elizabeth Anderson - The Imperative of Integration Ch. 1


5.   Segregation
Oct. 2
Jia Tolentino - "All the Greedy Young Abigail Fishers and Me"
Elizabeth Anderson - The Imperative of Integration Ch. 2

Oct. 4
Vi Hart & Nicky Case - "Parable of the Polygons"
Elizabeth Anderson - The Imperative of Integration Ch. 3

BREAK
Oct. 19
NO CLASS (Columbus Day)
Oct. 12
NO CLASS

6.   Implicit Bias
Oct. 16
Complete IATs on Race and Gender/Career at Project Implicit
Chris Mooney - "The Science of Why Cops Shoot Young Black Men"
Jennifer Saul - "How Should We Tell Implicit Bias Stories?"
Oct. 18
LAB MEETING: Tessa Charlesworth (Harvard)  

7.   Film
Oct. 23
Begin watching Get Out in class
Oct. 25
Finish watching Get Out in class

II. GENDER

8.   Sex & Oppression
Oct. 30
Marilyn Frye - "Oppression"
Rachel Syme - "Selfie"
Nov. 1
Jia Tolentino - "The Rage of the Incels"
Amia Srinivasan - "Does Anyone Have the Right to Sex?"

9.   Feminist Epistemology
Nov. 6
Rebecca Solnit - "Men Explain Things to Me"
Rebecca Solnit - "Cassandra Among the Creeps"
Miranda Fricker - "Testimonial Injustice"

Nov. 8
Lili Loofbourow - "The Male Glance"
Regan Penaluna - "Sexism Killed my Love for Philosophy, Mary Astell Brought it Back"
Kristie Dotson - "Tracking Epistemic Violence, Tracking Practices of Silencing"

10.   Intersectionality
Nov. 13
Andrea Long Chu - "On Liking Women"
Kimberle Crenshaw - "Why Intersectionality Can't Wait"
Amia Srinivasan - "What is a Woman?" (podcast)
Nov. 15
LAB MEETING: Jessica Remedios (Tufts)

BREAK
Nov. 20
NO CLASS
Nov. 22
NO CLASS--Thanksgiving

11.   Emotional Labor
Nov. 27
​Jess Zimmerman - "Where's my Cut?: On Unpaid Emotional Labor"
Emotional Labor: The MetaFilter Thread Condensed
Nov. 29
Emotional Labor: The MetaFilter Thread Condensed

12.   Critique
Dec. 4
Jia Tolentino - "When Everything is Bullying, Nothing is Bullying"
Jia Tolentino - "No Offense"
Freddie Deboer - "When Good Political Arguments Go Bad: On Critique Drift"
Dec. 6
LAB MEETING: Speaker TBA

WRAP-UP
Dec. 11
No assigned reading


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