Rodney:
Got the voice-mail message. When would this "Race" & Culture course needed
to be taught. Next semester I have a 3 course load and I wouldn't take on
another. Indeed the teaching load here is very heavy. I would think about
doing something in the summer.  But I heard the fee was around $4000 and
did you mention a mere $2100? Let me know.

About your book. Yes, I'll do a chapter on something. I'm not exactly sure
yet, but it will focus on the 'Black Atlantic Culture: Continuities and
Difference'.... If this is OK then I shall begin to formulate a chapter for
you.
Hope all is well with you. I am OK. It could be better, but it could be far
worse too.
Best wishes
Mark

At 10:53 AM 11/16/2000 , you wrote:
>I am putting together a special issue of Critical Sociology..
>
>The purpose is to have a critical dialogue regarding Race, Race Relations
>and/or Racism.
>
>Here are some of my thoughts, and the rough abstract of the paper I will be
>doing for the Volume.
>I call upon you individually to think about contributing to this
>project.  Please contact me directly, within the next 2 weeks if you are
>interested in contributing.  (Papers are anticipated from a multitude of
>perspectives which will include economic, psychological, Marxian, world
>systems, post modern, sociological, cross cultural.   These papers will
>also deal with different demographic groups as well to include - Hispanic,
>Asian, White Ethnics, Black, Native American - and others not specific to
>the continental U.S.   I plan to have this volume completed by summer of
>next year, and published by the fall of 2001.
>
>Thanks..
>
>
>
>Rodney D. Coates
>professor of Sociology
>Director of Black World Studies
>Miami University
>
>
>My rough Abstract..
>
>        The Cultural Production of Race and Racialized Systems
>        Rodney D. Coates
>
>
>
>        Amazingly, more than 30 years since the "marching stopped",
> Kenneth Clark
>convinced the supreme court that separate was wholly unequal, since 3
>little children were killed in a bombed out church, since the long hot
>summers caused us to question whether we would continue to be a nation
>divided, since the passage of the voters rights act, creation of
>Affirmative Action, since the slaying of Medger, Malcolm, John and Robert,
>and since Martin Luther King's Dream of a multi-cultural future for America
>and the systematic dismantling of most obvious forms of racial
>discrimination   we find ourselves once again discovering race, and
>horrified by racial crimes.   As we approach the beginning of a new
>millennium, the intractability of race and racism in such things as the
>corporate glass ceiling (where the Man Farthest Down is once again a black
>woman), the disparities in sentencing and the administration of capital
>punishment, racial profiling.  Within the Academe again we watch as race is
>reified as the primary factor in the lack of performance and criminality of
>persons of color, where blaming the victim and the culture of poverty are
>once again in vogue (while at times it is disguised as discourse and
>research in human capital or the human genome studies).  The paper argues
>that sociology and the discipline, as well as much of America, while
>acknowledging the more obvious causes and manifestations of race and racism
>(i.e. the social construction) have failed to understand or come to grips
>with the cultural production of race and racialized systems.  This failure
>has obvious significance for both research and policy.  Finally, this paper
>suggests specific theoretical, practical and empirical ways in which a
>cultural approach to race and racialized systems can be realized.
>
>
>
>
>For more of my poetry please check out
>
>http://gw.cas.muohio.edu/umoja/www.ulbobo.com/umoja/index.html
>
>umoja
>
>only when lions have historians will hunting cease to be glorified
>
>rodneyc..