ANTH 413 - Race,Ethnicity,and Minorities

Institution:

Susquehanna University

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Description:

Focuses on race and ethnic relations in contemporary society, and popular understandings of race and ethnicity in the US. Explores the boundaries and markers for membership in an ethnic, racial, or minority group. Specifically, this course regards race as a social construct that has significance for structural opportunities, experiences, world-views, and conceptions of self and others. Strategies used by dominant groups to maintain their power and privilege, and those used by subordinate groups to create and preserve their cultural identity and to resist their subordination also are examined. Prerequisite: ANTH:162 or SOCI:101. Same as SOCI:413. 4 SH.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.susqu.edu

Phone Number:

(570) 374-0101

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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