Anti-Racism, Indigenous Rights & Allyship

Catalog description

This course helps students develop comparative understandings as well as theoretical and critical vocabularies of race and racism, with a particular focus on the lived realities of Indigenous peoples. Drawing on relevant field experiences in Australia and other locations, students examine how contemporary understandings of identity and power are shaped by the discursive and material practices of coloniality. The course utilizes critical self-reflection to analyze how whiteness is performed and enacted in everyday life as well as to understand how it is embedded in institutions and systems of power, privilege and oppression. Finally, students are supported to develop decolonial skills and strategies to become change agents, allies and activists.