SOC-4200: Race and Racism

The purpose of this course is to equip students with a comprehensive understanding, both theoretical and applied, of race as a category of identity and racism as a system of domination and inequality. Students develop a keen awareness of major scholarly figures in the field of ethnic studies and learn the politics of theorizing and defining racial categories as an intellectual exercise. Students weigh competing perspectives, using historical and contemporary evidence, to examine what race is and how it works, including biological determinism, cultural pluralism, and social construction. The course pays close attention to the political context and effects of these theories; for example, the relationship between biological determinism, the eugenics movement, and immigration restriction in the 1910s and 1920s; and the links between the social construction/racial formation perspective and the civil rights and ethnic studies movements from the 1960s to the 1990s. Students critically analyze how racial categories (especially whiteness) have been constructed through the intersecting actions of government, capital, cultural producers, and everyday people.
Min. Credits: 3.0 Max Credits: 4.0
Credit Basis: Quarter credit
Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles
Method(s): Classroom
Faculty Consent Required: N
Program Approval Required: N
Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science

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SOC-4200: Race and Racism