ANTH 40355 - Race, Ethnicity, and Power

Institution:

University of Notre Dame

Subject:

Anthropology

Description:

This course explores race and ethnicity as biological, social, legal, and cultural constructs and lived experiences. Its underlying objective is to understand how relations of power affect racial and ethnic affiliations, categorizations, and experiences. Rather than merely learning a collection of facts on specific racial and ethnic groups, we will examine race and ethnicity as they intersect with dynamics of social class, gender, mass media representation, racism, immigration, and everyday life in urban settings. We will focus on the diversity of U.S. recent, real life experiences -from problems of inequality to the flourishing of "ethnic" food and music - but also look at postcolonial and European locales. This will enable us to compare racial and ethnic understandings, practices, and identities across geopolitical settings, and in global and transnational context.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.nd.edu

Phone Number:

(574) 631-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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