Theorizing Race and Ethnicity

3 units · Graduate

This seminar interrogates & expands on critical theories of race & ethnicity. We examine the significance of race in the modern world & dominant notions of humanity by showing the interconnected ways these processes rest on visions of hierarchy defined in ontological terms & enforced with violence-epitomized by enslavement & colonization-in the long period of white, especially Western, domination. Prereq: Not open to students with credit for AfAmASt 7756. Cross-listed in AfAMASt 7756.