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Fall 2018 | SOC 3211W Section 001: American Race Relations (19328)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- A-F or Audit
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
UMNTC Liberal Education Requirement
- Meets With:
AAS 3211W Section 001
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Mon,
Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, West Bank
Blegen Hall 120
- Enrollment Status:
Closed (52 of 52 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the contours of race in the post-civil rights era United States. This course will focus on race relations in today's society with a historical overview of the experiences of various racial and ethnic groups in order to help explain their present-day social status. The class will also class consider the future of race relations in the U.S. and evaluate remedies to racial inequality.
- Class Notes:
- Click this link for more detailed course information: http://classinfo.umn.edu/?maha0134+SOC3211W+Fall2018
- Class Description:
To fully endorse a course called "American Race Relations," we must first interrogate the extent to which racialized groups relate. Through such examination, we will question how race is used as a classificatory system of difference and differential relations of human value and valueness. We will explore how these differences are magnified through processes of racialization and how race is used as a tool for domination through systemic racism producing stark inequalities between groups. It's often said that race may be a social construct, but it is real in its implications. We will discuss the limitations of conceptualizing race as a "social construct" when it has denied many racialized groups access to the social and thus, the possibility humanness. As a class, we will attend to the role of relationality between groups. What factor does race play in esteeming some groups at the expense and further marginalization of others? Without conceptualizing race in relation to other classificatory systems of difference such as a gender, class, indigeneity, sexuality, ability, and citizenship, the study of race relations is incomplete. Hence, we will continuously explore the ways both oppression and privilege multiply based on the entanglement of difference.
- Class Format:
- Active participation and discussion are encouraged in this class environment. Students should expect in-class activities.
- Workload:
- Students interested in this course can expect to read 10-30 pages of academic work per week; in addition, we will be writing and revising paper work over the course of the semester.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/19328/1189
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 15 July 2018
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