EC 137 (Spring 2007)

 

Syllabus

Memo on Race and Prisons: 2/20/07

 

A-) READINGS

"The Minority Rights Revolution", Chapter 4

Prof. Loury's Tanner Lectures: Lecture I, Lecture II

Wacquant on Prisons and Ghettos

Steven Levitt on Falling Crime Rates

Self Sensorship in Public Discourse

Waldinger, " The New Urban Reality"

Loury, "Comment on Robert Solow's Tanner Lecture"

Traub, " What No School Can Do "

Tonry, " Malign Neglect" Chapter 1, Chapter 3

Meares, "Place and Crime"

Loury, "Trans-Generational Justice - Compensatory vs. Interpretative Approaches (essay on reparations)"

Fryer, Loury and Yuret, "Color Blind Affirmative Action"

Loury, " Incentive Effects of Affirmative Action"

"Affirmative Action and Its Mythology " (Fryer and Loury).

US Senate Apology

Katznelson Summary of "When Affirmative Action Was White"

"Paper on Mexican Immigration by Borjas and Katz"

"Hutchinson Commentary on Black-Immigrant Competition"

Randall Kennedy's Chapter 9 on Race and Capital Punishment

Paul Tough on No Child Left Behind

Loic Wacquant's critique of Elijah Anderson

Elijah Anderson's reply to Loic Wacquant

Two Cheers for Glenn Loury

Elliot Currie's Essay, 'The End of Justice'"

B-) LECTURE NOTES

Lecture Notes on Waldinger-Lichter

Notes on Bruce Western's Punishment and Inequality in America

Lecture notes on Self Censorship

Lecture notes on Sugrue

Lecture notes on Discrimination

Lecture Notes on Anatomy

Lecture Notes on Anatomy II

Lecture Notes on Reputation Game

Lecture Notes on Skretny

Lecture Notes on " A Simple Investment Hiring Game"

Lecture Notes on Color Blindness

Lecture Notes on Urban Poverty

Lecture Notes on Affirmative Action

Lecture Notes on Black Reparations

Lecture Notes on Place and Crime

Lecture Note on Wacquant vs. Anderson

Loury Comments on Affirmative Action in South Africa and the US

C-) FIGURES and TABLES

Immigration

Mass Incarceration and American Values

Racial Stigma

Figures from "Ghettos and the Transmission of Ethnic Capital" by David Cutler, Edward Glaeser and Jacob Vigdor:

(figures 1, 2 and 3)

Robbery Graph

Tables and Figures on Justice System and Race

Loury's self-censorship presentation

Racial Inequality Slides

Slides on the Racial Achievement Gap

Lethal Elections Slides

D-) OPTIONAL READINGS

Sampson and Raudenbush, "Perceiving Disorder"

Camille Charles, "Neighborhood Racial Composition Preferences"

Loury's Budapest Address

Lyndon Johnson's Howard University Speech

Howard Dean's Speech

Abraham Lincoln's Speech

Martin Luther King's Letter

Self Censorship in Public Discourse (1987)

E-) ASSIGNMENTS

Assignment 1

Assignment 2

Assignment 3