Race in the Middle East

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

What role have race and racialization played in the historical development of the Middle East and North Africa? How have local conceptions of race shaped historical institutions and processes, including slavery, imperialism, capitalist development, and nation-building? How did European conceptions of race intersect with and transform local understandings? This course will explore these questions through a study of histories of race and racialization in the Middle East and North Africa from the medieval period to the present.