Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Find below links to the assigned readings for the week. Be sure to give yourself time to read through them before your scheduled discussion section, and come prepared with a list of reactions, questions, and comments:

“What would you do? (Bike Thief). (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.” ABC. Online video clip. YouTube. YouTube, 15 December 2010. Web.

Kirschenman, Joleen and Kathryn M. Neckerman. “’We’d Love to Hire Them But…’: The Meaning of Race for Employers.” The Urban Underclass. Ed. Christopher Jencks and Paul E. Peterson. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1991. 203-243. Print.

Steele, Claude M. and Joshua Aronson. “Stereotype Threat and the Intellectual Test Performance of African Americans (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 69.5 (1995): 797-811.

Penner, Andrew M. and Aliya Saperstein. “How Social Status Shapes Race (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site..” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105.50 (2008): 19628-19630.

Optional:

Blake, John. The blurring of racial lines won’t save America (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.. CNN, 2018.