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History of Race Theory Professor Peter K Course HUHI 6305.001: Ideas in Context: History of Race Theory Professor Peter K. J. Park Term Fall 2015 Class Meetings Wednesdays 4:00-6:45 p.m. Location: JO 4.708 Professor’s Contact Information Office Phone (972) 883-2152 Office Location JO 5.610 Office Hours Thursday afternoons. Please email me to let me know that you’re coming. Email Address [email protected] General Course Information Pre-requisites, Co- requisites, & other Open to M.A. and Ph.D. students restrictions This seminar is intended as a graduate-level historical and theoretical survey of both the history of race and racism and the scholarly field of critical race theory. This broad historical and theoretical survey is geographically centered on the West. It emphasizes the reading and criticism of classic works of critical race Course Description scholarship as well as important historical sources on race and racism in Western history. Among the ideas and practices falling under our purview are ancient and modern ethnography and ethnology, slavery, colonialism, natural history (or natural description or natural classification), natural rights, sociology of race, racialism, racial eliminativism, racial contract, and human development. Students will be able to (1) describe the major ideas and practices of race and racism in Western history, (2) describe major trends in the historiography of Learning Outcomes race and racism, (3) explain what critical race theory is, and (4) produce a work of historiography or a critical literature review. Bernasconi, Robert, and Tommy L. Lott, The Idea of Race. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2000. Cox, Oliver C. Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics. Doubleday & Co., 1948: Part Three: Race. Public domain online copy at https://archive.org/details/casteclassracest00coxo Curran, Andrew S. The Anatomy of Blackness: Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. Isaac, Benjamin. The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. Required Texts McCarthy, Thomas. Race, Empire, and the Idea of Human Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Mikkelsen, Jon M. Kant and the Concept of Race. Albany: SUNY Press, 2014. Omi, Michael, and Howard Winant. Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s. 3rd edition. New York: Routledge, 2015. Mills, Charles W. The Racial Contract. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997. Taylor, Paul C. Race: A Philosophical Introduction. 2nd ed. Oxford: Wiley, 2013. Note: Most of these texts are stocked at the UTD Bookstore and at Off-Campus Bookstore, 561 W. Campbell Rd., Suite 201. Some of the required articles and book chapters are on e-Reserve and can be downloaded. Go to e-Reserves http://utdallas.docutek.com/eres/coursepage.aspx?cid=1990 You must enter the password. 1 writing manual Turabian, Kate L. A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, Seventh Edition: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. ISBN 978-0226823379 References & online writing centers Recommended Texts Purdue University Online Writing Lab: general https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/1/ University of Wisconsin Writing Center: writing handbook http://www.writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/index.html Please check eLearning regularly. I post announcements, upload files, and eLearning provide links to websites constantly. Assignments & Academic Calendar 1/13 Introduction to the course philosophical overview 1/20 Reading: Paul C. Taylor, Race: A Philosophical Introduction, 2nd ed. (Oxford: Wiley, 2013). racism in Western antiquity Reading: Benjamin Isaac, The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004), 1-251 + illustrations. Recommended: Miriam Eliav-Feldon, Benjamin Isaac, and Joseph Ziegler, eds., The Origins of Racism in the West (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1/27 2009); Immanuel Geiss, Geschichte der Rassismus (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1988); Francisco Bethencourt, Racisms: From the Crusades to the Twentieth Century (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013); Robert I. Moore, The Formation of a Persecuting Society: Power and Deviance in Western Europe, 950-1250 (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001). racism in Western antiquity continued 2/03 Reading: The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity, 255-516. Aristotle on natural slavery Reading: Nicholas D. Smith, “Aristotle’s Theory of Natural Slavery,” Phoenix 37, no. (1983): 109-122; Julie K. Ward, “Ethnos in the Politics: Aristotle and Race,” in Philosophers on Race: Critical Essays, edited by Julie K. Ward and Tommy Lott (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002), 14-37; Malcolm Heath, “Aristotle on Natural Slavery,” Phronesis: A Journal for Ancient Philosophy 53, no. 3 (2008): 243-270; Erick Raphael Jiménez, “Aristotle on Natural Slavery: The Race Question,” Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 35, no. 1-2 (2014): 53-79; Paul-A. Hardy, “Medieval Muslim Philosophers on Race,” in Philosophers on Race: Critical Essays, 38-62. race in the Portuguese and Spanish colonial empires 2/10 Recommended: Gilberto Freyre, The Masters and the Slaves: A Study in the Development of Brazilian Civilization (multiple out-of-print editions); Charles Boxer, Race Relations in the Portuguese Colonial Empire (1415-1825) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963); Anthony Pagden, The Fall of Natural Man: The American Indian and the Origins of Comparative Ethnology (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982); Léon Poliakov, The History of Anti-Semitism, Vol. 2: From Mohammed to the Marranos (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003); and Jean-Fréderic Schaub and Silvia Sebastiani, “Between Genealogy and Physicality: A Historiographical Perspective on Race in the Ancien Régime,” Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 35, no. 1-2 (2014): 23-51. 18th-century ideas of race: Linnaeus, Buffon, Bernier, Voltaire, Herder, & 2/17 Blumenbach Reading: Carolus Linnaeus, Systema naturae 10th ed. (1758) (excerpt); Robert 2 Bernasconi and Tommy L. Lott, eds., The Idea of Race (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2000): vii-xviii, 1-7, 23-107; Phillip R. Sloan, “The Idea of Racial Degeneracy in Buffon’s Histoire naturelle,” in Racism in the Eighteenth Century/Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, vol. 3 (Cleveland: Press of Case Western Reserve University, 1973), 293-321; Nicolas Bancel, Thomas David, and Dominic Thomas, eds., The Invention of Race: Scientific and Popular Representations (New York: Routledge, 2014), 1-99. Recommended: David Hume, “Of National Characters,” in his Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects, 4 vols. containing Essays, Moral and Political, 4th ed. (London: A. Millar; Edinburgh: A. Kincaid and A. Donaldson, 1753), 277-300; Richard H. Popkin, “Hume’s Racism,” in idem, The High Road to Pyrrhonism, ed. Richard A. Watson and James E. Force (San Diego: Austin Hill, 1980), 251-266, and “Hume’s Racism Reconsidered,” in Richard H. Popkin, The Third Force in Seventeenth Century Thought (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1992), 64-75; John Immerwahr, “Hume’s Revised Racism,” Journal of the History of Ideas 53, no. 3 (1992): 481- 486; Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze, “Hume, Race, and Human Nature,” Journal of the History of Ideas 61, no. 4 (2000): 691-698; Aaron Garrett, “Hume’s Racism Revisited,” Hume Studies 26, no. 1 (2000): 171-178; idem, “Hume’s ‘Original Difference’: Race, National Character, and the Human Sciences,” Eighteenth- Century Thought 2 (2004): 127-152; Silvia Sebastiani, “Progress, National Characters, and Race in the Scottish Enlightenment.” in Eighteenth-Century Scotland 14 (2000); idem, “Race and National Characters in Eighteenth-Century Scotland: The Polygenetic Discourse of Kames and Pinkerton.” Cromohs 8 (2003); idem, “Ignoble Savages: A Blank in the History of the Species.” chap. 3 of The Scottish Enlightenment, 73-102; and idem, “Measures of Civilization: Women, Races, and Progress,” chap. 5 of The Scottish Enlightenment, 133-162. 18th-century ideas of race: Kant, Zimmermann, Forster, Meiners, & Girtanner Reading: Jon M. Mikkelsen, Kant and the Concept of Race (Albany, NY: SUNY Press), 41-232. Recommended: Charles White, An Account of the Regular Gradation of Man (1799); Miriam Claude Meijer, Race and Aesthetics in the Anthropology of Petrus Camper (1722-1789) (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1999); Claude Blanckaert, “Les vicissitudes de l’angle facial et les débuts de la craniométrie (1765-1875),” Revue de synthèse 108:3-4 (1987): 417-53; Sara Eigen and Mark Larrimore, eds., The German Invention of Race (Albany: SUNY Press, 2006); Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze, “The Color of Reason: The Idea of ‘Race’ in Kant’s Anthropology,” Bucknell Review 38 (1995): 200-241; Tsenay Serequeberhan, “Eurocentrism in Philosophy: The Case of Immanuel Kant,” The Philosophical Forum 27, no. 4 (Summer 1996): 333-356; Robert Bernasconi, “Who Invented the Concept of 2/24 Race? Kant’s Role in the Enlightenment Construction of Race,” in Race, ed. Robert Bernasconi (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2001), 11-36; idem, “Kant as an Unfamiliar Source of Racism,” in Philosophers on Race: Critical Essays, ed. Julie K. Ward and Tommy L. Lott (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002), 145-166; idem, “Will the Real Kant Please Stand Up: The Challenge of Enlightenment Racism to the Study of the History of Philosophy,” in Radical Philosophy 117 (2003): 13-22; idem, “Kant and Blumenbach’s Polyps: A Neglected Chapter in the History of the Concept of Race,” in The German Invention of Race, ed. Sara Eigen and Mark Larrimore (Albany: SUNY Press, 2006), 73-90;
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