ANTH 318 - The Anthropology of Racialized Bodies & Places

Credits: (3)
Race and racism are critical machines of modern power. This course explores the historical, economic, and political processes that shaped the formation of modern race and its endurance in the present- namely modernity, capitalism, and state governance. Race and racism are historically situated ideological constructs. They are also situations and material constructions. They are conditions that have defined the existence of modern populations, in various reincarnated forms, since the 15th-century. We will examine the perspectives and material experiences of various racialized subjects. Racial technologies have never worked alone, but are intimately tied to other forms of difference and inequalities. As such, this course explores how race is linked to gender, sexuality, and class, for example.