Social Inequality and Civil Rights

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Examines the struggle for civil rights, equality, and justice, focusing on the differential treatment of people on the basis of race, class, gender, and sexual orientation. Using the Civil Rights Movement in the United States as a touchstone, this course compares various struggles for human rights such as slavery, abolitionism, territorial expansion, immigration, segregation, the anti-Imperialist struggles of Ghandi, and affirmative action.