Race and Gender in America

Catalog description

This course takes up a comparative approach rooted in the anthropology of race and gender. Students will build a theoretical framework from grounded studies of people's everyday lives in particular historical and historical and cultural contexts across the Americas. We will engage with topics ranging from the role of science in perpetuating and then dismantling inequalities predicted on race, the forced sterilization of women of color, to relationships of power emergent in increasingly diasporic lives. While the course focuses on ethnographic readings, students will be able to develop an interdisciplinary perspective for analyzing, race, gender, and sexuality. We cannot "do it all" in this class and so you should take this as an opportunity to push yourselves to engage with a field that crosees Black studies, ethnic studies, gender studies.