1. Michael Omi and Howard Winant, Racial Formations (Ch. 3, Rethinking the Color Line)

2. Joe Feagin and Clairece Booher Feagin, Theoretical Perspectives in Race and Ethnic Relations (Ch. 4)

3. Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Racialized Social System Approach to Racism (Ch. 5)

4. See Appendix, Figure 1: The Social Construction of Race, 1790-2000

5. Post a comment on BaruchBlogs about all three readings. Anything you’d like to say as briefly as possible.

1. Create a Facebook account and link it to our cell phones/emails (great idea!)
2. Assign each student to read another’s comment and post a reply
3. Assign two or more people to create a discussion each week about the assignments and everyone will get a chance to start a discussion (LIKE! In the past, I did this with panels of 4-5 people a class chosen impromptu so everyone has to be prepared)
4. Instead of reading every comment, we shld comment on the previous comment such as a chain reaction. So at least every comment is read at least once by a student. Having to choose a comment “you like,” some other comments won’t be read. Everyone shld have a chance and have a response to your response, esp. since you worked SO HARD doing your homework!
5. Productivity: Create a chain of comments where everyone comments on the last one.
6. Randomly select a # 1-35 (lottery)
7. If the comments are centered around the same topic or based off of one comment it is more like a threat and I feel that would probably be more productive. (For who? and why? I am curious and want to hear more about this).
8. Make blog (comments) shorter (less than 250 words) + to the point. (This way it is) easier to see – more ppl will read (them).
9. Just pick 1-5 others to read (for each assignment)
10. Comment on at least one other blog comment than your own.
11. At the end of your comment, comment on the person ahead of you
12. HERE’S ONE INSPIRED BY YOUR IDEAS AS I TYPED THESE UP:
    You must make a comment and leave an unfinished sentence for the next person who posts to finish and we collectively try to say something new from reading the three posts ahead of you. If you are the first 3 people to comment, you come back and read three other comments and reply later.

WHICH ABOVE DO YOU LIKE THE MOST?? AND WE CAN SWITCH IT UP TOO. I’ll choose the top three and we can play with that. Ideals to meet in choosing a favorite are:

• 100% PARTICIPATION by all even if in different roles every class (i.e., panelist, respondent, reviewer of article)
• CATEGORY 2 & 3 conversations
• SUCCINCTNESS – Write 140-450 characters rather than words.
• BREADTH – covering all assignments read