Empire and Settler Colonialism

3 Credits

Engages with the connections between settler colonialism and empire/imperialism and what their effects are on race, land, dispossession, and migration. The course will begin by grounding students in course key concepts including Settler Colonialism, Empire, Imperialism, Sovereignty, and Legality, situating these concepts in relation to space, place, and geography. The second half of the course will use these theoretical lenses to analyze the social conditions faced by BIPOC peoples. These topics will cover criminalization and police violence, Indigenous and women of color feminist and two spirit/queer experience, environmental racism, and state-based forms of racial documentation. The course will end with a discussion of decolonization and what it means in relation to settler colonialism and empire.