Course Readings & Presentations
Thursday, October 24 (Presentation)
- The Promise (Mills, 1959)
- The Art of Savage Discovery: How to Blame the Victim (Ryan, 1971)
Tuesday, October 29 (Presentation)
Thursday, October 31 (Presentation)
- Neoliberalism as Creative Destruction (Harvey, 2007)
- The Making of International Migrants (Sassen, 2007)
Tuesday, November 5 (Presentation)
- The New Media Giants: Changing Industry Structure (Crotreau & Hoynes, 2006)
- Tripping Up Big Media (Beckerman, 2003)
Thursday, November 7
- Reviving Lolita?: A Media Literacy Examination of Sexual Portrayals of Girls in Fashion Advertising (Merskin, 2004)
- Welfare Reform in the United States: Gender, Race and Class Matter (Abramovitz, 2006)
- Violence Against Women in Indigenous, Minority and Migrant Groups (Rowland & Carnegie, 2011)
Tuesday, November 12
Thursday, November 14
- Poverty and Inequality in the Global Economy (Yates, 2004)
- An Understanding of Poverty From Those Who are Poor (Collins, 2003)
- Child Labor in Bangladesh: Are Children the Last Economic Resource of the Household? (Salmon, 2005)
Tuesday, November 19
- America Transformed (Hytrek & Zentgraf, 2008)
- 21st Century Slaves (Cockburn, 2003)
- 'Aquí estamos y no nos vamos!': Global Capital and Immigrant Rights (Robinson, 2006)
Thursday, November 21
Tuesday, November 26
- Crime (Tonry, 2005)
- Prison Health and the Health of the Public: Ties that Bind (Williams, 2007)
- The Global Impact of Gangs (Hagedorn, 2005)
Thursday, November 28: "Thanksgiving Holiday"
No readings assigned for today.
No readings assigned for today.
Tuesday, December 3
- Nature's Trust: A Legal, Political and Moral Frame for Global Warming (Wood, 2007)
- Katrina and Power in America (Dreier, 2006)
- Integrating Environmental Justice and the Precautionary Principle in Research and Policy Making: The Case of Ambient Air Toxics Exposures and Health Risks among Schoolchildren in Los Angeles (Morello-Frosch, Pastor, Jr., & Sadd, 2002)
Thursday, December 5
TBD
TBD
Tuesday, December 10 (Human Rights Day)
No readings assigned for today.
No readings assigned for today.