Course Mandatory Resources
Adams, Bert N., and R. A. Sydie. “Critical Theory: The Frankfurt School and Habermas.” In Contemporary Sociological Theory, SAGE Publications, Incorporated, 2002. ProQuest Ebook Central 
Apata, Gabriel O. “I can’t Breathe’: The Suffocating Nature of Racism,” Theory, Culture & Society. 2020 Vol. 37, No. 7-8: 241-254. 
Blumer, Herbert. 1969. Symbolic Interactionism. Perspectives and Method. Berkeley, Ca.: University of California Press. Read chapter 9 “Society as Symbolic Interaction,” p. 78-89. (pdf)
Bobo, Lawrence D. “Somewhere Between Jim Crow and Post-Racialism: Reflections on the Racial Divide in America Today.” Daedalus: The Journal of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2011, 140 (2) Spring.
Briceño-León, Roberto. “The Five Dilemmas of Latin American Sociology.” In The ISA Handbook of Diverse Sociological Traditions, edited by Sujata Patel, SAGE Publications, Limited, 2009. ProQuest Ebook Central
Brown, Hana. “Racialized Conflict and Policy Spillover Effects: The Role of Race in the Contemporary U.S. Welfare State.” American Journal in Sociology, Vol. 119, No.2 (September 2013), pp. 394-443. https://osf.io/5zcrj/download
DuVernay, Ava (2016) 13th (film) (Posted on Apr 17, 2020). Netflix (1:40:02) https://youtu.be/krfcq5pF8u8?si=Tk9c9csfBr
Feagin, Joe. R.“Social Justice and Sociology: Agendas for the Twenty-First Century.” American Sociological Review, 2001, Vol. 66 (February: 1-20).
Goffman, Erving. 1959. “Performances” In The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman. New York: Anchor Books. 
Halas, Elzbieta. “Herbert Blumer on the Interactional Order of the Democratic Society.” Polish Sociological Review, no. 177, 2012, pp. 3-18. ProQuest
Morris, A. (2017). “w. e. b. du bois at the center: from science, civil rights movement, to black lives matter.” The British Journal of Sociology, 68(1), 3-16. DOI: 10.1111/1468-4446.12241
Schoeder, Ralph. “Contemporary populist politics through the macroscopic lens of Randall Collins’s conflict theory.” Thesis Eleven. Vol. 154, Issue 1, October 2019. Pp. 97-107.
Simon, Richard M. “The Conflict Paradigm in Sociology and the Study of Social Inequality: Paradox and Possibility.” Theory in Action, vol. 9, no. 1, 2016, pp. 1-31. https://transformativestudies.org/wp-content/uploads/10.3798tia.1937-0237.16001.pdf
Walsh, Catherine. “Afro In/Exclusion, Resistance, and the “Progressive” State: (De)Colonial Struggles, Questions, and Reflections.” In Black Social Movements in Latin America. From Monocultural Mestizaje to Multiculturalism. Edited by Jean Muteba Rahier. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Warshay, Leon H. “The Current State of Sociological Theory: Diversity, Polarity, Empiricism, and Small Theories.” The Sociological Quarterly, vol. 12, no. 1, 1971, pp. 23–45. JSTOR.
Wilson, William Julius. “Black Youths, Joblessness, and the Other Side of ‘Black Lives Matter.’” Ethnic & Racial Studies, vol. 39, no. 8, June 2016, pp. 1450–57.
Wright, Earl II; Calhoun C. Thomas, 2006, “Jim Crow Sociology: Toward an Understanding of the Origins and Principles of Black Sociology Via the Atlanta Sociological Laboratory, Sociological Focus, Volume 39, Issue 1, p. 1-18.
