Race and Ethnicity in International Perspective

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This course considers the historical, social, political, and economic contexts across the globe that have contributed to the creation and maintenance of global systems and institutions of inequity. Central to the course will be an examination of the early incarnations of the “race as biology” debate that finds its codification in the nineteenth century. This 19th century ideology served as a catalyst for many forms of historical human inequities across the globe as well as today in the twenty- first century including slavery, indentured servitude, modern forms of enslavement, and human trafficking.