Palestine: A Comparative Ethnic Studies Approach

Catalog description

This course examines Palestine and the Palestinians through interdisciplinary ethnic studies optics and frameworks. The course begins by examining the Palestinian struggle from a historical and geographically contextual lens. It then engages the question of Palestine from an ethnic studies approach centering theories and ideas on indigenous sovereignty, transnational social movements, racial carcerality, sexual and gender politics, displacement and refugeehood, apartheid and international law. We will also examine Palestinian relationships with communities and causes of the global South in the past and present. Students with backgrounds training in Middle East studies, ethnic studies, and/or gender/sexuality studies are especially encouraged to enroll in this course. Students interested in intersectional and interdisciplinary to Middle East and ethnic studies are also encouraged to enroll. There are no prerequisites for this course.