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Race, Racism, and Resistance (410-0-20)

Instructors

Mary E Pattillo
847/491-3409
1860 Campus Dr. Crowe 5-111
Pattillo is the Harold Washington Professor of Sociology and African American Studies. Her areas of interest include race and ethnicity, the black middle class, policy, inequality, urban sociology, and qualitative methods.

Meeting Info

Parkes Hall 222: Wed 2:00PM - 4:50PM

Overview of class

"Race, Racism, and Resistance in Global Perspective"

Race and racism are global formations rooted in colonialism and imperialism, and constitutive of modernity, liberalism, and capitalism. This class will focus on the development and contemporary manifestations of racial categories, racist structures, racial inequalities, and anti-racist social movements across multiple national and continental contexts. The course asks what is "race," and how does it function in Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, the U.S. and Oceania. And since racial concepts are not stable across time or place, how is "race" transformed by transnational migration and global cultural exchange. In exploring these ideas, the course also pays attention to intersecting formations of class, gender, ethnicity, region, etc. The goal of the course is to destabilize the concept of race by looking at its transformations across time and place, and to understand manifestations of racism and struggles against it across a range of geopolitical contexts.

Learning Objectives

Understand and deploy sociological terms
and concepts in the study of race and racism.

Compare racial classification systems, racial hierarchies, practices of racism, and strategies or resistance across time and place.

Formulate thesis statements, arguments, and critiques regarding existing theories and research approaches to race, racism, and resistance

Express novel research questions about contemporary or historical manifestations of race, racism, or resistance

Teaching Method

Seminar

Evaluation Method

Weekly response papers, presentations, final paper

Class Materials (Required)

This course will have required books/other materials.

To be determined. Reach out to the instructor for further information.

Class Attributes

Permission of department

Enrollment Requirements

Enrollment Requirements: Sociology/MORS PhD Students
Add Consent: Department Consent Required