A Hip Hop Companion to Race and Ethnicity

This course investigates racial and ethnic discrimination and inequality through sociological texts and Hip-Hop. Despite their different expressions, both forms of social interpretation have long addressed the issue(s) of racial and ethnic discrimination and inequality thus providing excellent complementary sources to answer key queries related to race and ethnicity. How are race and ethnicity (re)constructed and subjectively experienced? What mechanisms underpin and reinforce racial and ethnic stratification? How do race and ethnicity intersect with other dimensions to produce differential outcomes? These are questions we will address in this seminar, resorting to sociological texts, Hip-Hop artistry, and our own collective thinking.