Return-Path: sendmail 8.6.4/UCSD-2.2-sun Mon, 13 Dec 1993 09:53:40 -0800 for socgrad-list Mon, 13 Dec 1993 09:53:32 -0800 for Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1993 12:52:13 +0500 (EST) From: James Cassell Subject: NEW COURSE DISCUSSION LIST (fwd) To: Sociology Graduate Student Discussion , "Progressive Sociologist's Network" FYI; this is an interesting idea, please pass this announcement on to any others who may be interested. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jim Cassell Jim_Cassell@UNC.EDU Institute for Research in Social Science Phone: 919-962-0782 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Fax: 919-962-4777 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3355 USA ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1993 06:22:48 -0600 (CST) From: GARY KLASS To: ASHE-L@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu, Pol-Econ@SHSU.edu, PSRT-L@MIZZOU1.missouri.edu Subject: NEW COURSE DISCUSSION LIST ********* AN INVITATION TO SUBSCRIBE AND PARTICIPATE ********* ================================================================= ================================================================= Description: POS302-L is a discussion list created for the "Race, Ethnicity and Social Inequality" seminar offered at Illinois State University in the Spring, 1994 semester. The general purposes of the list are to create an electronic-mail audience for the written work of the students in the course and to invite a broad audience to particpate in the seminar. Subscription to the list can be done by sending the following message to: LISTSERV@ILSTU.EDU SUBSCRIBE POS302-L Your Full Name, Institution (Note do not send this message to POS302-L@ILSTU.EDU, to unsubscribe send the message: UNSUB POS302-L to LISTSERV@ILSTU.EDU) POSTING TO THE LIST. Messages sent to the list (POS302-L@ILSTU.EDU) will be automatically sent out to all subscribers. Please limit such messages to one of two formats: 1) a review or (or critique or commentary) on one of the works assigned in the course, or 2) a commentary on one or more of the reviews. You may subscribe at any time, but please refrain from posting reviews until February 1, 1994 to give people time to subscribe to the list. On or about February 1, a schedule will be posted to the list, indicating a recommended two-week period to be devoted to the discussion of each book. Please try to keep your posting within the schedule. Reviews for the first two books, Dinesh D'Souza's ILLIBERAL EDUCATION and Derrick Bell's AND WE ARE NOT SAVED should be submitted between February 1 and Febraury 14. REVIEWS: The reviews should consist of scholarly analyses of the assigned works. The should be between 500 and 1,000 words. The subject field of the message should contain the word REVIEW followed by the name of the author of the book, e.g.: subject: REVIEW: Derrick Bell. The text of the message should begin with a full citation of the work and the name and affiliation of the reviewer and the date. A suggested format is shown below: =================================================================== Review of Dinesh D'Souza, ILLIBERAL EDUCATION: THE POLITICS OF RACE AND SEX ON CAMPUS (The Free Press, 1991). Reviewed by: Gary Klass Illinois State University 1/19/94 COMMENTARIES: Commentaries should be limited to 350 words. To prevent excessive message traffic, I ask that a) only persons who have read the book that was reviewed comment on the review, b) that only one commentary on a review be submitted for each book, c) that short reactions and comments be sent on direct mail, not to the list. A reviewer may respond to a commentary once, but as a general rule that must be the last word. MODERATION This is an experimental effort and it is difficult to anticipate what kind of messages we will see on this list, particularly because many of these works are controversial and the subject matter concerns a topic that sometimes provokes heated exchanges in other settings. Rather than having a formal set of standards for decency and good taste, the members of the class at Illinois State will act as referees, upon majority vote of the class, I will kick anyone off the list whose messages do not contribute its general educational purposes. Remember at all times that many of the people on this list are students (also, that students are people), that they are trying to learn, that they will make mistakes and say things that are wrong. We learn from our mistakes. It is just as important not to take offense as it is not to be offensive. THE BOOKS: **AUTHOR** ***TITLE******* **ISBN NO.** BELL, DERRICK AND WE ARE NOT SAVED 0-465-00329-X D'SOUZA, DINESH ILLIBERAL EDUCATION 0-679-73857-6 ASANTE, MOLEFI KETE THE AFROCENTRIC IDEA 0-87722-573-7 BELL, DERRICK FACES AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WELL 0-465-06814-6 BILLINGSLEY, ANDREW BLACK FAMILIES IN WHITE AMERICA (1968) CARTER, STEPHEN THE CULTURE OF DISBELIEF 0-465-02647-8 CHAVEZ, LINDA OUT OF THE BARRIO 0 465 05430-7 CRUSE, HAROLD PLURAL BUT EQUAL 0-688-08331-5 GILDER, GEORGE MEN AND MARRIAGE 0-882-89946-5 EDSALL, THOMAS & MARY CHAIN REACTION 0 393 30903-7 EZORSKY, GERTRUDE RACISM AND JUSTICE 0-8014-9922-4 KAUS, MICKEY THE END OF EQUALITY 0-465-09816-9 MEAD, LAWRENCE THE NEW POLITICS OF POVERTY 0-465-05962-7 MURRAY, CHARLES LOSING GROUND 0-465-04232-5 PHILLIPS, KEVIN THE POLITICS OF RICH AND POOR 0-06-097396-X PORTER, ROSALIE FORKED TONGUE 0-465-02488-2 RYAN, WILLIAM BLAMING THE VICTIM 0-394-72226-4 SCHLESINGER, ARTHUR M. THE DISUNITING OF AMERICA 0-393-30987-8 STEELE, SHELBY CONTENT OF OUR CHARACTER 0-06-097415-X SYKES, CHARLES A NATION OF VICTIMS 0 312 09882 0 THERNSTROM, ABIGAIL WHOSE VOTE COUNTS? 0 674 95195-6 WEST, CORNEL RACE MATTERS 0 807 00918-0 WILSON, WILLIAM THE TRULY DISADVANTAGED 0-226-90131-9 WOOD, FORREST THE ARROGANCE OF FAITH 0-394 57993-3 Note: Other books may be added to the list before February 1. Before the end of the semester, the list will be made open to reviews of books that should have been on the list but were not. If there is sufficient interest and volume, the list will continue indefinately (with minimal moderation). Please re-post this message to anyone you think may be interested. If you have any questions, comments or problems, send them to me (not the list) at gmklass@ilstu.edu. -- Gary Klass | gmklass@ilstu.edu 4600 Political Science | (309) 438-7852 Illinois State University | (fax) 438-5310 Normal, Illinois 61790-4600 |