Race & Racism in US Educ

Catalog description

This course focuses on how racism persists and who the arbiters of interpersonal, systemic, structural, and institutional racism. This course offers students an opportunity to deepen their understanding of how racism functions in U.S. education and its social contexts. Although this focus implicitly indicts many, if not most, white people and white institutions, it also alludes to the ways racism and whiteness are internalized and perpetuated by People of Color and the institutions of which they are a part. Students will explore the history and social construction of race in the U.S.; engage in personal reflection concerning their own relationships to the topics covered in this course; explore practices for healing from racism and white supremacy; and learn and apply analytical strategies informed by power-conscious and anti-racist frameworks, critical theories about race, and other perspectives to critique the policies and practices within U.S. educational institutions. Through engaging in this course, students will be able to identify implications for anti-racist education policy and practice and better understand their roles in disrupting white supremacy in education. Prerequisite: admission into a recognized graduate program at Binghamton University, or consent of the HESA department chair. Offered: semester varies.