SOCY 71 Race Matters - "Race" Made to Matter

What is race? What are the effects of race in our everyday life? How has science shaped our understanding of race and human diversity? This course explores how and why race is a social construction with profound implications in our social world not only in the U.S. but also beyond its shores. Diverse sciences have established that human beings are well over 99% genetically identical, but race remains a potent vision through division that has been made and made to matter across multiple spheres of life. This ranges from ancestry testing to our identities to how we are categorized to where we live and whom we are taught to love and hate in society. How race intersects with socio-economic disparities related to inclusion and exclusion are among the topics examined in this course.

Instructor

Keaton

Cross Listed Courses

AAAS 063

Degree Requirement Attributes

Dist:SOC; WCult:CI

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Offered

• Winter