Global and Historical Perspectives On Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity

Catalog description

The graduate seminar critically examines how race, ethnicity, class and gender are integral to the historical and contemporary development of global capitalism. Careful attention is paid to indigeneity, often rendered invisible in discussions of race and ethnicity. The course brings into dialogue key theoretical approaches from Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas in order to shed light on contemporary political mobilizations and debates. A key objective of the course is to move beyond frameworks that only consider class, on the one hand, or only consider identity politics (race, ethnicity, gender and indigeneity), on the other hand. The course is structured as a reading-intensive seminar.