AFRAMER 97 - Sophomore Tutorial: Race and Humanism

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Harvard University

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Description:

This course examines the place and social function of racial logics in humanist discourse. Drawing on historical, anthropological, and biological examples, students explore how human particularism and universals often work together to establish both racial distinction and the notion of "the human" more generally. Interdisciplinary in nature, this course will explore diverse case studies that include early 20th century colonial rule in French West Africa, the philosophies behind the Parisian Negritude movement, the work of the Boasian school of American anthropology, the creation of UNESCO and its statements on race, and the evolution of the American Anthropological Association's and the American Sociological Association's statements on race. We will also review the most recent debates on human biological differences, and similiarity, in the life sciences in the late 20th and early 21st century with regard to the Human Genome Project, the HapMap, and other key molecular-based studies on human distinction within the field of genomics.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.harvard.edu

Phone Number:

(617) 495-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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