Human Rights in the Americas
Robin KirkCultural Anthropology: CULANTH 245SFall 2019 This course introduces students to the history of human rights in Latin America, with a focus on certain regions. We will begin with the Conquest...
View ArticleRacial/Ethnic Minorities in American Politics
Ashley E. JardinaAAAS 257Fall 2020 This course focuses on the continued significance of race and ethnicity in the United States, paying careful attention to the way in which institutions, political...
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Jayne O. IfekwunigweCULANTH 220FS/ Immigration and Citizenship Focus ClusterFall 2020 By exploring pioneering and controversial writings from both the social and the biological sciences as well as the...
View ArticleTopics in North American History
Thavolia GlymphHISTORY 790S The department offers a series of rotating courses, covering the history and historiography of various aspects of North American History. Written work is confined to...
View ArticleAfrican American Women and History
Thavolia GlymphHISTORY 349 The history of African American women in the United States. The production of discourses of gender, race, and class discrimination that evolved specifically to confront the...
View ArticleSociology of Racism in America
Eduardo de Silva or Tyson Haywood BrownSOCIOL215, AAAS246, LSGS316, RIGHTS215Fall 2019 Examines social history of major racial groups in the US and relationships to contemporary standing. Discusses...
View ArticleNature, Culture and Gender
Saskia CornesGSF 366Spring 2020 The course will examine human identity through a consideration of its boundaries. Do women view nature differently than men? What are the limits of the human in the...
View ArticleChinatowns: A Cultural History
Eileen ChowAMES 335/HISTORY 228/AMI 337/ICS 336Fall 2019 Explores the intersection of space and ethnicity through the myriad ways Chinatown has circulated as memory, fantasy, narrative, myth, in the...
View ArticleAnthropology of Race
Lee BakerAAAS 251/CultAnth208/ICS239/RIGHTS 208Spring 2020 Human variation and the historical development of concepts of race; science and scientific racism; folk-concepts of race; and the political...
View ArticleRace/Racism/Democracy
Lee Baker CULANTH 535SFall 2019 The paradox of racial inequality in societies that articulate principles of equality, democratic freedom, and justice for all.
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