THE HISTORY OF WHITENESS IN THE UNITED STATES

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This course surveys the full sweep of the history of the United States to interrogate what exactly "whiteness" was and is and what it has meant throughout the American past. To do so, this course closely examines a series of crucial turning points of the history of "whiteness" in the United States: (1) the colonial era and creation of "whiteness" as an identity and (2) the evolution of "whiteness" during the long 19th and 20th centuries.