Description of the Problem: Summarize the issue and why it is important. Share
findings from past studies, our course, and the book you chose. What does this show about important trends, debates, etc.?
II. Historical Overview: How has this problem been addressed historically? How has
our thinking on this issue changed over time? Using material from our course, discuss
the racial ideologies that you think informed policies on this issue.
III. Evaluation and Assessment: Discuss the current and proposed policies to address
the issue. Using insight from the course and scholarly sources, assess the
effectiveness of these policies in addressing the issues and reducing racial inequality,
specifically. Are there any potential problems or “blind spots”?
IV. Concluding Thoughts ]
Citizenship (NYU Press, 2021)
• Peck, Alison, The Accidental History of the U.S. Immigration Courts: War, Fear, and the
Roots of Dysfunction (University of California Press, 2021)
• Robert C. Smith, Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants
• Hector R. Cordero-Guzman, Héctor R. Cordero-Guzmán, Ramón Grosfoguel, Robert C.
Smith, Migration, Transnationalization, and Race in a Changing New York (Temple
University Press, 2001)
• Ian Haney Lopez, White by Law
• Vilna Bashi, The Ethnic Project
• Stephen Steinberg, The Ethnic Myth
• Trenita Brookshire Childers, In Someone Else’s Country: Anti-Haitian Racism and
Citizenship in the Dominican Republic
• Tom Vickers, Borders, Migration and Class in an Age of Crisis: Producing Workers and
Immigrants
• Laura E. Enriquez, Of Love and Papers: How Immigration Policy Affects Romance and
Family
• Jennifer Allsopp, Youth Migration and the Politics of Wellbeing: Stories of Life in
Transition
• Emine Fidan Elcioglu, Divided by the Wall: Progressive and Conservative Immigration
Politics at the U.S.-Mexico Border
• Kevin Escudero, Organizing While Undocumented: Immigrant Youth’s Political
Activism Under the Law
• Yen Le Espiritu, Asian Amerrican Women and Men: Labor, Laws, and Love.