Race and Ethnicity in Global and Comparative Perspective

Harvard FAS

This course provides an introduction to the comparative study of “race and ethnicity” around the world. We focus here not on particular “ethnic” or “racial” groups, but rather, on particular cases which illustrate how “race” is used as a way in which to divide, sort, and rank human beings (i.e. a principle of social vision and division). In particular, we compare and contrast how different societies have constructed ethnoracial…