Our discussion this week is based on the Introduction of Ellis Monk’s PhD dissertation:

Monk, Ellis P. 2013. “Color, Bodily Capital, and Ethnoracial Division in the U.S. and Brazil.” [Introduction pp.1 – 22]

I recommend you finish the readings before carefully going over my PowerPoint presentation with voiceover where I explain important ideas and concepts covered in the readings.

Watch the video below on race relations in Brazil.

Watch the video below as it directly relates to this week’s reading.

Lecture Posts Questions:

Please note that this and future lecture posts will be worth double and are now due on Monday

On the comments section below, address the following questions (answers should be at least 100 words in length and posted by Monday – This is how participation points are assessed. Please save your comments in a safe document before attempting to post it.

1. From  my PowerPoint presentation, what isn’t clear? Any thoughts or comments you would like to share?
2. From Ellis Monk’s reading, what are the main takeaways?
3. From the reading, is everything clear? Do you have any questions?
4. Based on the first video from Vox on race relations in Brazil, what are the main takeaways? Do you have any questions?
5. How does the second video relate to this week’s reading? Did you find any of this surprising? In your opinion, how are racial categories in Brazil different or similar to that of other countries you know?
6. Any general thoughts, comments or questions you would like to share?

Our discussion is based on this week’s readings:

1. Hoffman, Kelly, and Miguel Angel Centeno. 2003. “The Lopsided Continent: Inequality in Latin America.” Annual Review of Sociology 29(1):363–90.
2. Parreñas, Rhacel. S. 2000. Migrant Filipina Domestic Workers And The International Division Of Reproductive Labor. Gender & Society, 14(4), 560–580.

I recommend you finish the readings before carefully going over my PowerPoint presentation with voiceover where I explain important ideas and concepts covered in the readings. I also discuss more recent data on topics discussed in the papers that you might find interesting.

Watch the trailer for the documentary The Care Chain of Love. You can find the entire documentary HERE

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/chainoflove

Watch this longer 5-minute video of the documentary above

https://youtu.be/5CShNLmiO1M

Since 1994 with the genocide against the Tutsi, Rwanda saw an increased and continued convergence in gender equality. In 2020 it ranked 9th amongst countries in the world in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index. This index measures gender equality based on four main areas: 1) Economic participation and opportunity; 2) Educational attainment; 3) Health and survival; 4) Political Empowerment. You can find the entire 2020 report HERE

We’ve studied in this course how malign factors such as wars can affect overall levels of economic inequality in a country, but we haven’t investigated how these factors can also affect between-group inequalities. With this in mind, watch the video below on gender equality in Rwanda:

Lecture Posts Questions:

Please note that this and future lecture posts will be worth double and are now due on Monday

On the comments section below, address the following questions (answers should be at least 100 words in length and posted by Monday – This is how participation points are assessed. Please save your comments in a safe document before attempting to post it.

1. From  my PowerPoint presentation, what isn’t clear? Any thoughts or comments you would like to share?
2. From the Hoffman and Centeno (2003) reading, what are the main takeaways?
3. From Parreñas (2000) reading and the videos of the film, what are the main takeaways?
4. Based on the video on gender equality in Rwanda, how does this relate to other malign factors and inequality reduction that we’ve studied in class?
5. Any general thoughts, comments or questions you would like to share?

Our discussion is based on this week’s readings:

1. Hillmann, Henning. 2013. “Economic Institutions and the State: Insights from Economic History.” Annual Review of Sociology 39(1):251–73.
2. Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson. 2001. The colonial origins of comparative development: An empirical investigation. American Economic Review 91:1369-1401

I recommend you finish the readings before carefully going over my PowerPoint presentation with voiceover where I explain important ideas and concepts covered in the readings. I also present data from other papers that you might find interesting.

Watch James Robinson’s TEDx talk where he discusses “Why do some states enjoy wealth, security, health and nutrition while others face poverty, unemployment, lack of health care and safety?”

Lecture Posts Questions:

On the comments section below, address the following questions (answers should be at least 100 words in length and posted by Sunday – This is how participation points are assessed. Please save your comments in a safe document before attempting to post it.

1. From my PowerPoint presentation, what isn’t clear? Any thoughts or comments you would like to share?
2. From the readings, what isn’t clear? What surprised you the most? Any thoughts you would like to share?
3. What are the main takeaways from James Robinson’s TEDx talk?