Sociology of Racial Knowledge

Graduate / Professional

Knowledge has become central to the social organization of modern societies. This course offers an introduction to the sociology of knowledge through a survey of how various social institutions, from medicine to education, have generated knowledge about race and racism. The goal of the course is to develop intellectual tools to understand both the social organization of knowledge as well as the racial organization of modern societies. The course contextualizes the dynamics in the contemporary United States with a global and comparative perspective. W 1:30pm-3:25pm