ANTH328

042523

This upper-level course offers students a chance to explore critical race theory and racial inequality with a focus on whiteness and its relation to centuries of racial violence. What is whiteness based on? How is it created, and what gives it its power? How are notions of white superiority produced around the globe, not only through state power and violence, but also through far more mundane behaviors of individuals? In taking up scholarship that draws on the now much discussed topic of \"critical race theory,\" we will examine the ways race is built into American culture and society, while also exploring other contexts around the world. This class will introduce students to recent readings and theories of white supremacy, antiblackness, and settler colonialism. In addition, we will also explore how whiteness impacts a wide range of racialized communities both in the United States and in other countries, in the current moment and over time. This class will draw on interdisciplinary scholarship (from history to cultural and medical anthropology), and students will be encouraged to analyze examples of their choosing through an anthropological lens that explores the daily work that white people do to reproduce racial ideologies, racial hierarchy, and the hyper-valuation of whiteness.

GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E

Undergraduate

WE - WEC (Writing Emphasis Course)