Race and Ethnic Relations ((3))

Catalog description

This course is designed to provide students with a broad introduction to the field of race and ethnic relations in the United States. The historical and contemporary experiences of various ethnic and panethnic groups in the United States -- the so-called five pan-ethnicities: European Americans, Native Americans, African Americans, Latinos/Hispanics, and Asian Americans -- are sociologically analyzed in the Healey textbook. Various sociological concepts and theories are defined and explored to account for the social construction of these groups and the history of the social interactions, from colonial times to the present. In short, we attempt to learn and understand -- mediated by sociological theory -- the history and dynamics of modern peoplehood in the United States.