Contextualizing Racial Justice: What Does Racial Justice Look Like in Your World?

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Here at Le Moyne we prioritize understanding and engaging racial justice, which included examining historical, social, and political dynamics of racism within our culture. This course takes that endeavor and locates it within the student's individual context. In addition to working together through a set of foundational readings and resources on racial justice (which student groups will take turns selecting from a variety of possibilities), each student will plan and execute over the course of the semester a capstone project based upon the intersection of racial justice with a specific aspect of their own context. Students will be expected to bring their own level of expertise in a specific field of inquiry or discipline and will learn what comprises responsible engagement with and representation of such specific contexts to a general audience (i.e., the class). They might choose from among: their major or minor, a specific research interest, their chosen career field, a specific personal or social issues, etc. Course faculty mentoring and extensive group interaction will assist the student in this interdisciplinary task of responsibly and meaningfully examing racial justice in terms of their own, specific contexts.