Critical Thought on Race and Ethnicity

1 Unit · Undergraduate

This course examines historical and contemporary manifestations racism, ethnocentrism, nationalism, ancestry, difference, and privilege. Lectures and readings focus on practices of racialization (how individuals/groups are sorted into races), and the development of global and local racial paradigms (the rules of race-making and racial assignment), and finally centers on why these denigrating mechanisms are so difficult to eradicate.