Course Description
The causes and consequences of race and ethnic discrimination in America, with a focus on ethnic competition and conflict.
Athena Title
Race and Ethnicity America Hon
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in SOCI 2820, AFAM 2820
Prerequisite
Permission of Honors
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student Learning Outcomes
- Students will develop one’s own informed perspective on American racial problems.
- Students will introduce the ways that sociologists deal with race, ethnicity, race relations and racism.
- Students will introduce students to the history, cultures and issues faced by some of the racial and ethnic groups in the U.S.
- Students will learn more about these groups and consider what their experiences reveal with respect to the challenges racial and ethnic formations present for conventional understandings of citizenship, group membership and social justice.
- Students will consider race both as a source of identity and social differentiation as well as a system of privilege, power, and inequality affecting everyone in the society in different ways.
Topical Outline
- 1. Theoretical Approaches: The Problematic of Race and Ethnic Formations in Post-Civil Rights America
2. Constructionist Approaches to US Race Relations
3. Contemporary Socio-Economic Trends
4. Understanding Racism
5. Mechanisms of Racial Formation and Reproduction: Institutional Racism
6. Race and Representation: Media, Images, and Stereotypes of African Americans
7. Race and Representation: Native Americans
8. Black Resistance to the US Racial System
9. New Immigrants and Other Communities of Color
10. The Asian American Experience
11. The Mexican Migrant Experience
12. Inequality, Diversity, Multiplicity and America: Broader Impacts and Implications
13. Now What: Anti-Racist Strategies
General Education Core
CORE V: Social Sciences
