Political Science 100J Professor Amy Bridges

Spring 2004 534-7706 abridges@ucsd.edu

Race in American Political Development

Readings in Race in American Political Development make arguments about how politics (and social life) in the US have been shaped by our accommodations of diversity. Books are available in the UC Bookstore; all readings are on reserve at SSH Library, and Soft Reserves will sell a reader.

March 29 Introduction

April 5 (first night of Passover, class will be rescheduled)

David Montejano, Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Modern

Texas, University of Texas Press, 1987 Chapters 1-6

April 12 Chapters 7-13 in Anglos and Mexicans …

April 19 Harry N. Scheiber, “Race, Radicalism, and reform: Historical Perspective on the 1879 California Constitution” Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly Vol 17, #3, pp. 35-80

April 26 C. Van Woodward, Reunion and Reaction, entire

V. O. Key, Southern Politics in State and Nation, Chapters 1, 15, 16,17

May 3 Robert C. Lieberman, Shifting the Color Line, Harvard University Press

1998, Chapters 1,2,3

May 10 Shifting the Color Line, Chapters 4,5,6

May 17 Paul Frymer, Uneasy Alliances Princeton, 1999

Robert W. Mickey, “Ruling Parties in a Bind: The Transitions of South;

Carolina and Mississippi in Comparative Perspective” paper delivered

at the Western Political Science Assn Meetings, March 2000

May 24 Claire Jean Kim, “The Racial Triangulation of Asian Americans,” Politics & Society, Vol. 27, #1 (March 1999) 105-138.

_____________, “Playing the Racial Trump Card: Asian Americans in Contemporary US Politics” Paper prepared for delivery at the Annual Meetings of the American Political Science Association, 1999.

May XX (May 31 is Memorial Day, class will be rescheduled)

John D. Skrentny, The Minority Rights Revolution, Harvard 2003,

Chapters 1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10

Grades in PS 100J will be based on assignments brought to class during the quarter (50%), and either a final or a research paper (50%).

During the Quarter, for FIVE classes, students are required to bring a brief essay (5-6 double-spaced, typed pages) on one chapter, or an article, of the day’s reading. The essay will take this form: What is the author’s argument? What is the author’s evidence? How persuasive is the Chapter/Article?

For the other 50% of your grade, students will either write a research paper, due at the time the final is scheduled by the registrar, or take an in-class final. These choices are available to all students.

To write a research paper, students must submit a proposal in the April 12 class, and make an appointment to see Professor Bridges later that same week. At the appointment, the student and Professor Bridges will agree on a research plan.