{"id":7034,"date":"2011-07-22T01:57:23","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T01:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=7034"},"modified":"2011-07-22T02:53:58","modified_gmt":"2011-07-22T02:53:58","slug":"race-and-ethnic-relations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=7034","title":{"rendered":"SOCI 006-601: Race and Ethnic Relations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/sociology.sas.upenn.edu\/006_601_nopper\" target=\"_blank\"><em>SOCI 006-601: Race and Ethnic Relations<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>University of Pennsylvania<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/sociology.sas.upenn.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Sociology<\/a><br \/>\nFall 2011<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/asam.sas.upenn.edu\/people\/nopper\" target=\"_blank\">Tamara Nopper<\/a><\/strong>, Adjunct Professor of Asian American Studies<\/p>\n<p>The election of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> as the United States\u2019 first Black president has raised questions about whether we have entered a post-racial society.\u00a0 This course examines the idea of racial progress that is at the heart of such a question, paying close attention to how social scientists have defined and measured racial inequality and progress in the last century.\u00a0 <strong>We will consider how dramatic demographic shifts, the growing number of interracial families and individuals who identify as mixed-race, trans-racial adoptions, and the increased visibility of people of color in media, positions of influence, and as celebrities inform scholarly and popular debates about racial progress.<\/strong>\u00a0 Along with some classic works, we will also read literature regarding the class versus race debate and color-blind racism.\u00a0 In the process, students will become familiar with sociological data often drawn from in debates about racial progress and will also develop analytical and critical thinking skills.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nCourse Professor:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOCI 006-601: Race and Ethnic Relations University of Pennsylvania Department of Sociology Fall 2011 Tamara Nopper, Adjunct Professor of Asian American Studies The election of Barack Obama as the United States\u2019 first Black president has raised questions about whether we have entered a post-racial society.\u00a0 This course examines the idea of racial progress that is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1564,394,20],"tags":[2922,2921,2923],"class_list":["post-7034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courses","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-tamara-k-nopper","tag-tamara-nopper","tag-university-of-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}