UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY

Professor Office Hours Class Meetings

Dr. H.D. Horton T 3-5:00 p.m. T 5:45-8:35 p.m.

SS 356 and by appointment BA 210

442-4907

Email:[email protected]

Website:www.albany.edu/~hdh

"In sociology, we think that we lay bricks until someone

comes along, huffs and puffs, and demonstrates that we

were only laying straw."

--Hayward Derrick Horton, July 9, 1996.

Course Objectives:

The purpose of this course is to provide the student with an in-depth understanding of the relationship of social and demographic phenomena relative to racial and ethnic populations. Specifically, the course emphasizes the nature of the social structure and how it differentiates between dominant and subordinate populations in society. Thus, population size, structure, distribution, change and policies will be placed in the context of the prevailing racial order. Consequently, the concept racism will be central to the analyses presented. Moreover, the course introduces the paradigm critical demography to facilitate an understanding and analyses of contemporary demographic trends relative to race and ethnicity in the United States and throughout the world.

Texts: Farley, Reynolds. 1995. State of the Union: America in the 1990s vols. 1 & 2.

Lieberson, Stanley. 1980. A Piece of the Pie: Blacks and White Immigrants Since 1880.

Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L. and Carlos E. Santiago. 1996. Island Paradox: Puerto Rico in the 1990s.

Roberts, Dorothy. 1997. Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty.

Special Issue of Sociological Forum on Critical Demography.

Course Requirements:

A. Research Paper. A paper on a topic of your choosing within the broad area of racial and ethnic demography is required. The paper must meet the following standards:

1. A 2-3 page proposal for the paper must be submitted and approved prior to working thereon. Deadline: September 21, 1999;

2. ASR format;

3. 15-20 pages in length (excluding references, tables, figures);

4. Deadline for Paper: November 22, 1999.

B. Take-Home Midterm and Final Exams.

C. Group Presentations: Students will be organized into groups for the purpose of presenting and leading discussions on the assigned readings.

D. Paper Presentations: Each student will be responsible for giving an oral presentation of her/his research paper.

E. Prerequisites: This is a Ph.D. level special topics course in sociology. Consequently, it is expected that students have already taken, at a minimum, one graduate course in demography. This background is necessary to gain full benefit of what this course has to offer. Students without this background should consult with the professor as to the advisability of their remaining in the course.

Grading

Research Paper 30%

Mid-term Exam 30%

Final Exam 30%

Oral Presentations 10%

Course Outline

I. Introduction

A. The Critical Demography Paradigm

Horton, Hayward Derrick. (forthcoming) "Rethinking Diversity: Conceptual and Theoretical Challenges for Racial and Ethnic Demography" (course handout).

Horton (under review) "Toward A Critical Demography of Race and Ethnicity: Introduction of the 'R' Word." (course handout)

Horton, 1995. "Population Change and the Employment Status of College Educated Blacks." Pp.99-144 in Rutledge Dennis (ed) Research in Race and Ethnic Relations

vol. 8 (course handout).

Horton, 1999. "Critical Demography: The Paradigm of the Future?" Sociological Forum 14(3):363-366. (course handout)

Special Issue of Sociological Forum on "Critical Demography."

B. Overview of Racial and Ethnic Demography

McDaniel, Antonio. 1996. "Fertility and Racial Stratification." Population and Development Review (supplement) 22:134-149.

O'Hare, William. 1992. "America's Minorities--The Demographics of Diversity."

Population Bulletin 47(4):2-47.

Snipp, C. Matthew. 1997. "The Size and Distribution of the American Indian Population: Fertility, Mortality, Migration and Residence." Population Research

and Policy Review: 16:16-93.

Rogers, Richard et al. 1996. "Demographic, Socioeconomic, and Behavioral Factors Affecting Ethnic Mortality by Cause." Social Forces 74(4):1419-1438.

Tienda, Marta and Franklin D. Wilson. 1992."Migration and the Earnings of Hispanic Men." American Sociological Review 57:661-678.

Tolnay, Stewart. 1997. "The Great Migration and Changes in the Northern Black Family, 1940 to 1990." Social Forces 75(4):1213-38.

II. Demography and the Social Construction of Race

Lieberson, A Piece of the Pie (in its entirety)

Alba, Richard D. et al. 1997. "White Ethnic Neighborhoods and Assimilation: The Greater New York Region, 1980-1990. Social Forces 75(3):883-909.

Keith, Verna and Cedric Herring. 1991. "Skin Tone and Stratification

in the Black Community." American Journal of Sociology 47:518-532.

Nagel, Joane. 1995. "American Indian Ethnic Renewal: Politics and the Resurgence of Identity." American Sociological Review 60 (6):947-965.

III. The Contemporary Context of Racial and Ethnic Demography

Farley, State of the Union vol.1 (in its entirety).

Farley, State of the Union vol.2 (in its entirety).

Iceland, John. 1997. "Urban Labor Markets and Individual Transitions Out of Poverty." Demography 34(3):429-441.

Model, Suzanne and David Ladipo. 1996. "Context and Opportunity: Minorities in London and New York." Social Forces 75(2):485-510.

Quillian, Lincoln. 1995. "Prejudice as a Response to Perceived Group Threat: Population Composition and Anti-immigrant and Racial Prejudice in Europe."

American Sociological Review 60:586-611.

South, Scott J. And Kyle Crowder. 1997. "Escaping Distressed Neighborhoods: Individual, Community and Metropolitan Influences." American Journal of Sociology 102(4):1040-1084.

Santiago, Anne M. And Margaret Wilder. 1991. "Residential Segregation and Links to Minority Poverty: The Case of Latinos in the United States." Social Problems 38:492-515.

IV. Mid-term Exam

V. Population Change and Population Policy

Roberts, Killing the Black Body. (in its entirety)

Lichter, Daniel T. et al. 1997. "Welfare and the Rise in Female-Headed Families." American Journal of Sociology 103(1):112-43.

Massey, Douglas S. 1997. "What's Driving Mexican-U.S. Migration? A Theoretical, Empirical, and Policy Analysis." American Journal of Sociology 102 (4):939-99.

Riley, Nancy E. 1997. "Gender, Power and Population Change." Population Bulletin 52(1):2-48.

VI. A Demographic Case Study: Puerto Rico

Rivera-Batiz and Santiago, Island Paradox (in its entirety)

Landale, Nancy S. 1994. "Migration and the Latino Family: The Union Formation Behavior of Puerto Rican Women." Demography 31:133-57.

Tienda, Marta. 1989. "Puerto Ricans and the Underclass Debate." The Annals of the

American Academy of Political and Social Science 501:105-119.

VII. Student Paper Presentations

VIII. FINAL EXAM