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AFRO 8202 is also offered in Spring 2025
AFRO 8202 is also offered in Spring 2024
AFRO 8202 is also offered in Spring 2023
AFRO 8202 is also offered in Spring 2022
Spring 2025 | AFRO 8202 Section 001: Seminar: Intellectual History of Race (54339)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Discussion
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/21/2025 - 05/05/2025Wed 01:00PM - 03:15PMUMTC, East Bank
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (0 of 10 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- At its heart, the 8202 seminar is about dialogue, interrogating scholarship on race, intellectual history, and knowledge production. We will be in deep conversation with one another as we negotiate meaning around the intellectual history of race. Dialogue, indeed, is at the heart of this graduate seminar experience. Given the multidisciplinary composition of the students and content in 8202, we build together to form a learning whole in a remote format. Central to our work is excavating the 500 year legacy of race thought and making into the contemporary period.
- Class Description:
- Race - has little reality in the biological sense, yet its power to influence our lives and our self-understanding is enormous. This course explores the shifting and contested meanings of race, from the European 'Age of Conquest' onward. The course also contains a significant sociological analysis of the 'racial' notion. Starting from the proposition that race is not a stable or fixed category of social thought and being, our primary task will be to ascertain how Western ideas and sociological practice about race have changed, and why these changes have occurred. We will explore the large social processes and discourses developing and shaping the concept of race, particularly how various groups, e.g., native peoples of the Americas, Africans, and Europeans became racialized via enslavement, trade, colonialism and capitalism. We will explore, as well, the various justifications (religious, legal, philosophical, 'scientific') for notions of racial inferiority and racial superiority. While we will spend some time analyzing how what it means to be 'white' has been historically contingent on being non-Black or Indian, we will also explore the subjectivities of racialized and oppressed peoples, especially their critiques of racism and domination. Some time will be spent on discussing the structural transformation of racism.
- Grading:
- 30% Reports/Papers
10% Attendance
30% Reflection Papers
20% In-class Presentations
10% Class Participation Other Grading Information: final research paper - Class Format:
- 20% Lecture
10% Film/Video
40% Discussion
10% Small Group Activities
20% Student Presentations - Workload:
- 200 Pages Reading Per Week
4 Paper(s)
2 Presentation(s) - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54339/1253
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2012
Spring 2024 | AFRO 8202 Section 001: Seminar: Intellectual History of Race (55032)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Discussion
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/16/2024 - 04/29/2024Wed 01:00PM - 03:15PMUMTC, East BankBlegen Hall 135
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (10 of 12 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- At its heart, the 8202 seminar is about dialogue, interrogating scholarship on race, intellectual history, and knowledge production. We will be in deep conversation with one another as we negotiate meaning around the intellectual history of race. Dialogue, indeed, is at the heart of this graduate seminar experience. Given the multidisciplinary composition of the students and content in 8202, we build together to form a learning whole in a remote format. Central to our work is excavating the 500 year legacy of race thought and making into the contemporary period.
- Class Description:
- Race - has little reality in the biological sense, yet its power to influence our lives and our self-understanding is enormous. This course explores the shifting and contested meanings of race, from the European 'Age of Conquest' onward. The course also contains a significant sociological analysis of the 'racial' notion. Starting from the proposition that race is not a stable or fixed category of social thought and being, our primary task will be to ascertain how Western ideas and sociological practice about race have changed, and why these changes have occurred. We will explore the large social processes and discourses developing and shaping the concept of race, particularly how various groups, e.g., native peoples of the Americas, Africans, and Europeans became racialized via enslavement, trade, colonialism and capitalism. We will explore, as well, the various justifications (religious, legal, philosophical, 'scientific') for notions of racial inferiority and racial superiority. While we will spend some time analyzing how what it means to be 'white' has been historically contingent on being non-Black or Indian, we will also explore the subjectivities of racialized and oppressed peoples, especially their critiques of racism and domination. Some time will be spent on discussing the structural transformation of racism.
- Grading:
- 30% Reports/Papers
10% Attendance
30% Reflection Papers
20% In-class Presentations
10% Class Participation Other Grading Information: final research paper - Class Format:
- 20% Lecture
10% Film/Video
40% Discussion
10% Small Group Activities
20% Student Presentations - Workload:
- 200 Pages Reading Per Week
4 Paper(s)
2 Presentation(s) - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/55032/1243
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2012
Spring 2023 | AFRO 8202 Section 001: Seminar: Intellectual History of Race (65700)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Discussion
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2023 - 05/01/2023Wed 01:00PM - 03:15PMUMTC, East BankBlegen Hall 125
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (11 of 15 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- At its heart, the 8202 seminar is about dialogue, interrogating scholarship on race, intellectual history, and knowledge production. We will be in deep conversation with one another as we negotiate meaning around the intellectual history of race. Dialogue, indeed, is at the heart of this graduate seminar experience. Given the multidisciplinary composition of the students and content in 8202, we build together to form a learning whole in a remote format. Central to our work is excavating the 500 year legacy of race thought and making into the contemporary period.
- Class Description:
- Race - has little reality in the biological sense, yet its power to influence our lives and our self-understanding is enormous. This course explores the shifting and contested meanings of race, from the European 'Age of Conquest' onward. The course also contains a significant sociological analysis of the 'racial' notion. Starting from the proposition that race is not a stable or fixed category of social thought and being, our primary task will be to ascertain how Western ideas and sociological practice about race have changed, and why these changes have occurred. We will explore the large social processes and discourses developing and shaping the concept of race, particularly how various groups, e.g., native peoples of the Americas, Africans, and Europeans became racialized via enslavement, trade, colonialism and capitalism. We will explore, as well, the various justifications (religious, legal, philosophical, 'scientific') for notions of racial inferiority and racial superiority. While we will spend some time analyzing how what it means to be 'white' has been historically contingent on being non-Black or Indian, we will also explore the subjectivities of racialized and oppressed peoples, especially their critiques of racism and domination. Some time will be spent on discussing the structural transformation of racism.
- Grading:
- 30% Reports/Papers
10% Attendance
30% Reflection Papers
20% In-class Presentations
10% Class Participation Other Grading Information: final research paper - Class Format:
- 20% Lecture
10% Film/Video
40% Discussion
10% Small Group Activities
20% Student Presentations - Workload:
- 200 Pages Reading Per Week
4 Paper(s)
2 Presentation(s) - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65700/1233
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2012
Spring 2022 | AFRO 8202 Section 001: Seminar: Intellectual History of Race (68514)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/18/2022 - 05/02/2022Wed 01:00PM - 03:15PMUMTC, East BankBlegen Hall 125
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (9 of 10 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- At its heart, the 8202 seminar is about dialogue, interrogating scholarship on race, intellectual history, and knowledge production. We will be in deep conversation with one another as we negotiate meaning around the intellectual history of race. Dialogue, indeed, is at the heart of this graduate seminar experience. Given the multidisciplinary composition of the students and content in 8202, we build together to form a learning whole in a remote format. Central to our work is excavating the 500 year legacy of race thought and making into the contemporary period.
- Class Description:
- Race - has little reality in the biological sense, yet its power to influence our lives and our self-understanding is enormous. This course explores the shifting and contested meanings of race, from the European 'Age of Conquest' onward. The course also contains a significant sociological analysis of the 'racial' notion. Starting from the proposition that race is not a stable or fixed category of social thought and being, our primary task will be to ascertain how Western ideas and sociological practice about race have changed, and why these changes have occurred. We will explore the large social processes and discourses developing and shaping the concept of race, particularly how various groups, e.g., native peoples of the Americas, Africans, and Europeans became racialized via enslavement, trade, colonialism and capitalism. We will explore, as well, the various justifications (religious, legal, philosophical, 'scientific') for notions of racial inferiority and racial superiority. While we will spend some time analyzing how what it means to be 'white' has been historically contingent on being non-Black or Indian, we will also explore the subjectivities of racialized and oppressed peoples, especially their critiques of racism and domination. Some time will be spent on discussing the structural transformation of racism.
- Grading:
- 30% Reports/Papers
10% Attendance
30% Reflection Papers
20% In-class Presentations
10% Class Participation Other Grading Information: final research paper - Class Format:
- 20% Lecture
10% Film/Video
40% Discussion
10% Small Group Activities
20% Student Presentations - Workload:
- 200 Pages Reading Per Week
4 Paper(s)
2 Presentation(s) - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68514/1223
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2012
Spring 2021 | AFRO 8202 Section 001: Seminar: Intellectual History of Race (65683)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
- Online Course
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/19/2021 - 05/03/2021Wed 05:30PM - 08:15PMOff CampusUMN REMOTE
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (5 of 10 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Shifting and contested meanings of "race" from the "Age of Conquest" to the present. Starting from the proposition that race is not a fixed or stable category of social thought or being, the seminar seeks to ascertain how and why Western ideas about race have changed.
- Class Description:
- Race - has little reality in the biological sense, yet its power to influence our lives and our self-understanding is enormous. This course explores the shifting and contested meanings of race, from the European 'Age of Conquest' onward. The course also contains a significant sociological analysis of the 'racial' notion. Starting from the proposition that race is not a stable or fixed category of social thought and being, our primary task will be to ascertain how Western ideas and sociological practice about race have changed, and why these changes have occurred. We will explore the large social processes and discourses developing and shaping the concept of race, particularly how various groups, e.g., native peoples of the Americas, Africans, and Europeans became racialized via enslavement, trade, colonialism and capitalism. We will explore, as well, the various justifications (religious, legal, philosophical, 'scientific') for notions of racial inferiority and racial superiority. While we will spend some time analyzing how what it means to be 'white' has been historically contingent on being non-Black or Indian, we will also explore the subjectivities of racialized and oppressed peoples, especially their critiques of racism and domination. Some time will be spent on discussing the structural transformation of racism.
- Grading:
- 30% Reports/Papers
10% Attendance
30% Reflection Papers
20% In-class Presentations
10% Class Participation Other Grading Information: final research paper - Class Format:
- 20% Lecture
10% Film/Video
40% Discussion
10% Small Group Activities
20% Student Presentations - Workload:
- 200 Pages Reading Per Week
4 Paper(s)
2 Presentation(s) - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/65683/1213
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2012
Spring 2019 | AFRO 8202 Section 001: Seminar: Intellectual History of Race (53721)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/22/2019 - 05/06/2019Wed 05:30PM - 08:15PMUMTC, West BankCarlson School of Management 1-122
- Enrollment Status:
- Open (9 of 10 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Shifting and contested meanings of "race" from the "Age of Conquest" to the present. Starting from the proposition that race is not a fixed or stable category of social thought or being, the seminar seeks to ascertain how and why Western ideas about race have changed.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?brewe001+AFRO8202+Spring2016
- Class Description:
- Race - has little reality in the biological sense, yet its power to influence our lives and our self-understanding is enormous. This course explores the shifting and contested meanings of race, from the European 'Age of Conquest' onward. The course also contains a significant sociological analysis of the 'racial' notion. Starting from the proposition that race is not a stable or fixed category of social thought and being, our primary task will be to ascertain how Western ideas and sociological practice about race have changed, and why these changes have occurred. We will explore the large social processes and discourses developing and shaping the concept of race, particularly how various groups, e.g., native peoples of the Americas, Africans, and Europeans became racialized via enslavement, trade, colonialism and capitalism. We will explore, as well, the various justifications (religious, legal, philosophical, 'scientific') for notions of racial inferiority and racial superiority. While we will spend some time analyzing how what it means to be 'white' has been historically contingent on being non-Black or Indian, we will also explore the subjectivities of racialized and oppressed peoples, especially their critiques of racism and domination. Some time will be spent on discussing the structural transformation of racism.
- Grading:
- 30% Reports/Papers
10% Attendance
30% Reflection Papers
20% In-class Presentations
10% Class Participation Other Grading Information: final research paper - Class Format:
- 20% Lecture
10% Film/Video
40% Discussion
10% Small Group Activities
20% Student Presentations - Workload:
- 200 Pages Reading Per Week
4 Paper(s)
2 Presentation(s) - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/53721/1193
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2012
Spring 2018 | AFRO 8202 Section 001: Seminar: Intellectual History of Race (50501)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018Wed 05:30PM - 08:15PMUMTC, West BankCarlson School of Management 2-219
- Enrollment Status:
- Closed (10 of 10 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Shifting and contested meanings of "race" from the "Age of Conquest" to the present. Starting from the proposition that race is not a fixed or stable category of social thought or being, the seminar seeks to ascertain how and why Western ideas about race have changed.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?brewe001+AFRO8202+Spring2016
- Class Description:
- Race - has little reality in the biological sense, yet its power to influence our lives and our self-understanding is enormous. This course explores the shifting and contested meanings of race, from the European 'Age of Conquest' onward. The course also contains a significant sociological analysis of the 'racial' notion. Starting from the proposition that race is not a stable or fixed category of social thought and being, our primary task will be to ascertain how Western ideas and sociological practice about race have changed, and why these changes have occurred. We will explore the large social processes and discourses developing and shaping the concept of race, particularly how various groups, e.g., native peoples of the Americas, Africans, and Europeans became racialized via enslavement, trade, colonialism and capitalism. We will explore, as well, the various justifications (religious, legal, philosophical, 'scientific') for notions of racial inferiority and racial superiority. While we will spend some time analyzing how what it means to be 'white' has been historically contingent on being non-Black or Indian, we will also explore the subjectivities of racialized and oppressed peoples, especially their critiques of racism and domination. Some time will be spent on discussing the structural transformation of racism.
- Grading:
- 30% Reports/Papers
10% Attendance
30% Reflection Papers
20% In-class Presentations
10% Class Participation Other Grading Information: final research paper - Class Format:
- 20% Lecture
10% Film/Video
40% Discussion
10% Small Group Activities
20% Student Presentations - Workload:
- 200 Pages Reading Per Week
4 Paper(s)
2 Presentation(s) - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/50501/1183
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2012
Spring 2017 | AFRO 8202 Section 001: Seminar: Intellectual History of Race (51104)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/17/2017 - 05/05/2017Wed 05:30PM - 08:15PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 430
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Shifting and contested meanings of "race" from the "Age of Conquest" to the present. Starting from the proposition that race is not a fixed or stable category of social thought or being, the seminar seeks to ascertain how and why Western ideas about race have changed.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?brewe001+AFRO8202+Spring2016
- Class Description:
- Race - has little reality in the biological sense, yet its power to influence our lives and our self-understanding is enormous. This course explores the shifting and contested meanings of race, from the European 'Age of Conquest' onward. The course also contains a significant sociological analysis of the 'racial' notion. Starting from the proposition that race is not a stable or fixed category of social thought and being, our primary task will be to ascertain how Western ideas and sociological practice about race have changed, and why these changes have occurred. We will explore the large social processes and discourses developing and shaping the concept of race, particularly how various groups, e.g., native peoples of the Americas, Africans, and Europeans became racialized via enslavement, trade, colonialism and capitalism. We will explore, as well, the various justifications (religious, legal, philosophical, 'scientific') for notions of racial inferiority and racial superiority. While we will spend some time analyzing how what it means to be 'white' has been historically contingent on being non-Black or Indian, we will also explore the subjectivities of racialized and oppressed peoples, especially their critiques of racism and domination. Some time will be spent on discussing the structural transformation of racism.
- Grading:
- 30% Reports/Papers
10% Attendance
30% Reflection Papers
20% In-class Presentations
10% Class Participation Other Grading Information: final research paper - Class Format:
- 20% Lecture
10% Film/Video
40% Discussion
10% Small Group Activities
20% Student Presentations - Workload:
- 200 Pages Reading Per Week
4 Paper(s)
2 Presentation(s) - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/51104/1173
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2012
Spring 2016 | AFRO 8202 Section 001: Seminar: Intellectual History of Race (54131)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/19/2016 - 05/06/2016Wed 05:30PM - 08:15PMUMTC, West BankCarlson School of Management 1-122
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Shifting and contested meanings of "race" from the "Age of Conquest" to the present. Starting from the proposition that race is not a fixed or stable category of social thought or being, the seminar seeks to ascertain how and why Western ideas about race have changed.
- Class Notes:
- http://classinfo.umn.edu/?brewe001+AFRO8202+Spring2016
- Class Description:
- Race - has little reality in the biological sense, yet its power to influence our lives and our self-understanding is enormous. This course explores the shifting and contested meanings of race, from the European 'Age of Conquest' onward. The course also contains a significant sociological analysis of the 'racial' notion. Starting from the proposition that race is not a stable or fixed category of social thought and being, our primary task will be to ascertain how Western ideas and sociological practice about race have changed, and why these changes have occurred. We will explore the large social processes and discourses developing and shaping the concept of race, particularly how various groups, e.g., native peoples of the Americas, Africans, and Europeans became racialized via enslavement, trade, colonialism and capitalism. We will explore, as well, the various justifications (religious, legal, philosophical, 'scientific') for notions of racial inferiority and racial superiority. While we will spend some time analyzing how what it means to be 'white' has been historically contingent on being non-Black or Indian, we will also explore the subjectivities of racialized and oppressed peoples, especially their critiques of racism and domination. Some time will be spent on discussing the structural transformation of racism.
- Grading:
- 30% Reports/Papers
10% Attendance
30% Reflection Papers
20% In-class Presentations
10% Class Participation Other Grading Information: final research paper - Class Format:
- 20% Lecture
10% Film/Video
40% Discussion
10% Small Group Activities
20% Student Presentations - Workload:
- 200 Pages Reading Per Week
4 Paper(s)
2 Presentation(s) - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54131/1163
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2012
Spring 2015 | AFRO 8202 Section 001: Seminar: Intellectual History of Race (54677)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Delivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session01/20/2015 - 05/08/2015Wed 05:30PM - 08:15PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 105
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Shifting and contested meanings of "race" from the "Age of Conquest" to the present. Starting from the proposition that race is not a fixed or stable category of social thought or being, the seminar seeks to ascertain how and why Western ideas about race have changed.
- Class Description:
- Race - has little reality in the biological sense, yet its power to influence our lives and our self-understanding is enormous. This course explores the shifting and contested meanings of race, from the European 'Age of Conquest' onward. The course also contains a significant sociological analysis of the 'racial' notion. Starting from the proposition that race is not a stable or fixed category of social thought and being, our primary task will be to ascertain how Western ideas and sociological practice about race have changed, and why these changes have occurred. We will explore the large social processes and discourses developing and shaping the concept of race, particularly how various groups, e.g., native peoples of the Americas, Africans, and Europeans became racialized via enslavement, trade, colonialism and capitalism. We will explore, as well, the various justifications (religious, legal, philosophical, 'scientific') for notions of racial inferiority and racial superiority. While we will spend some time analyzing how what it means to be 'white' has been historically contingent on being non-Black or Indian, we will also explore the subjectivities of racialized and oppressed peoples, especially their critiques of racism and domination. Some time will be spent on discussing the structural transformation of racism.
- Grading:
- 30% Reports/Papers
10% Attendance
30% Reflection Papers
20% In-class Presentations
10% Class Participation Other Grading Information: final research paper - Class Format:
- 20% Lecture
10% Film/Video
40% Discussion
10% Small Group Activities
20% Student Presentations - Workload:
- 200 Pages Reading Per Week
4 Paper(s)
2 Presentation(s) - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/54677/1153
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2012
Fall 2013 | AFRO 8202 Section 001: Seminar: Intellectual History of Race (29252)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
- Delivery Medium
- Times and Locations:
- Regular Academic Session09/03/2013 - 12/11/2013Wed 05:30PM - 08:00PMUMTC, West BankBlegen Hall 220
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Shifting and contested meanings of "race" from the "Age of Conquest" to the present. Starting from the proposition that race is not a fixed or stable category of social thought or being, the seminar seeks to ascertain how and why Western ideas about race have changed.
- Class Description:
- Race - has little reality in the biological sense, yet its power to influence our lives and our self-understanding is enormous. This course explores the shifting and contested meanings of race, from the European 'Age of Conquest' onward. The course also contains a significant sociological analysis of the 'racial' notion. Starting from the proposition that race is not a stable or fixed category of social thought and being, our primary task will be to ascertain how Western ideas and sociological practice about race have changed, and why these changes have occurred. We will explore the large social processes and discourses developing and shaping the concept of race, particularly how various groups, e.g., native peoples of the Americas, Africans, and Europeans became racialized via enslavement, trade, colonialism and capitalism. We will explore, as well, the various justifications (religious, legal, philosophical, 'scientific') for notions of racial inferiority and racial superiority. While we will spend some time analyzing how what it means to be 'white' has been historically contingent on being non-Black or Indian, we will also explore the subjectivities of racialized and oppressed peoples, especially their critiques of racism and domination. Some time will be spent on discussing the structural transformation of racism.
- Grading:
- 30% Reports/Papers
10% Attendance
30% Reflection Papers
20% In-class Presentations
10% Class Participation Other Grading Information: final research paper - Class Format:
- 20% Lecture
10% Film/Video
40% Discussion
10% Small Group Activities
20% Student Presentations - Workload:
- 200 Pages Reading Per Week
4 Paper(s)
2 Presentation(s) - Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/29252/1139
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 23 March 2012
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