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CS92PROD
From Romanus Pontifex (1454) to Black Lives Matter: Race and the Formation of the Modern World

HIST 241
Spring 2020
Section: 01  
Certificates: International Relations, International Relations Minor

This course investigates the belief system of race from its emergence in the 15th century in the wake of European expansion into Africa and the Americas to contemporary dynamics both in the Americas and globally. Rather than viewing this phenomenon in the liberal humanist terms of race relations or more recently of diversity and multiculturalism, or as merely a function ostensibly more fundamental issues (e.g. class), this course proposes to analyze race not only as a central mechanism instituting Western societies, but also as one form of how humans have organized and reproduced their social orders.
Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: SBS HIST
Course Format: LectureGrading Mode: Graded
Level: UGRD Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a Requirement for: (HIST-MN)(HIST)
Past Enrollment Probability: 75% - 89%

Last Updated on DEC-08-2024
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