Audio, Winter Quarter, 2009

• 01. Course Introduction
  Course rules and assignments, subject matter and helpful advice
• 02. The Nature of Caste
  Defines castifation and then considers two popular historical forms: rank-order and clan-driven castes.
• 03. The Ideals of the American Revolution
  The rhetoric that defined the American experiment -- equality, rights, meritocracy and so forth
• 04. Slavery in the Colonies
  How colonial economics and labor relationships worked; how slavery started and how the slave trade worked
• 05. Race and the Constitution; and Some Framers (Hamilton and Franklin)
  Colonial attitudes about race; slavery and the Constitution; and Hamilton and Franklin on race.
• 06. The Framers and Race: Adams', Washington and Jefferson
  Examines elites in the framing generation with varied sets of racial attitudes
• 07. Race and Slavery in Antebellum America
  Covers why slavery didn't die out, the rise of a racialized view of who is "american," jackson, taney and dred scott
• 08. From the Civil War through Cruikshank
  The cultural divisions, the new amendments, reconstruction and its end, and Cruikshank
• 09. Plessy, Social Distance, Social Transformation & NAACP
  Explains plessy, the reduction in social distance in the 1900s, the NAACP litigation strategy, and conceptualizes racism as a cognitive phenomenon
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