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ANTHR 150

Race and Racism

3 units

Winter 2023

Topics

  • Define key concepts related to race and racism: race, racism, ethnicity, privilege, intersectionality, and more
  • Understand historical circumstances behind the development of race as a concept
  • Explain race as a social construct and its effects
  • Understand why race is not a biological category
  • Understand the development of racism and many different forms that racism can take
  • Explain how human biological and cultural diversity relate to the issue of racism
  • Identify instances of racism in everyday life, institutions and media

Readings

Fall 2019

Topics

  • Anthropology and Race
  • History of the Concept of Race
  • Human Biological Variation
  • Science and Race
  • Intelligence, I.Q. and Race cont
  • State Sanctioned Racism Racism and World Conflicts
  • cont. Racism and World Conflicts
  • Racism and World Conflicts Racism in Canada
  • cont. Racism in Canada
  • Globalisation and Ethnicity Challenging Racism

Readings

  • Aulette, J. R. 2017 A Global View of Race and Racism. Oxford University Press
    required
  • Satzewich, V. 2011 Racism in Canada. Oxford University Press
    required
  • Rattansi, A. 2007 Racism: a short introduction. Oxford University Press
    required
Sources