Sociology of Race and Education

Harvard HGSE

In The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. DuBois famously wrote, “The problem of the Twentieth Century is the color line—the relation of the darker to the lighter races of men in Asia and Africa, in America and the islands of the sea.” The color line endures – and education has been a primary site of racial conflict, harm, and inequity. In this seminar, students will explore sociological theories of race, racism, and power, and interrogate how race has shaped the purposes of schooling in the US, the…