Race Discourse in the Americas
HIST 329
Fall 2021 not offered
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This course examines the belief system of race as it intersects with contemporary social and political concerns. These include: gender, sexuality, AI and technology, animal studies, Obama and black politics, mass incarceration, and questions of environmental sustainability. Moving beyond the national borders of the United States, the class will also explore the functioning of race in South Africa as well as conduct a comparative inquiry of the idea of caste that has been used to analyze the social structure of several South Asian societies. The course seeks to understand the transformations and persistence of racial hierarchy as a constitutive element of our present global order. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS HIST |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (HIST-MN)(HIST) |
Major Readings:
Ruha Benjamin, Race after Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
Bndicte Boisseron, Afro-Dog: Blackness and the Animal Question
Angela Davis, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Getrude ¿Ma¿ Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday
Fredrick C. Harris, The Price of the Ticket: Barack Obama and the Rise and Decline of Black Politics
Naomi Murakawa, The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America
Lydia R. Otero, In the Shadow of the Freeway: Growing up Brown and Queer
Gyanendra Pandey, A History of Prejudice: Race, Caste, and Difference in India and the United States
Carl A. Zimring, Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism
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