Race and the Modern World

Race and the Modern World is a team taught interdisciplinary graduate seminar that critically examines the intersections of ideas, institutions, ideologies, and practices that have defined race and processes of racialization in the modern era. The seminar will closely examine the theoretical and methodical issues in the critical study of race; the politics and political theories of race; the imbrications of discourses of race, culture, and public life; the political economy of race; and the intellectual history of the discourse of race with an emphasis on the university as a key site in the production of racial knowledge. Enrollment limited to 20.