AIP 356 Structural Racism (REP)
This course will explore discrimination based on race and ethnicity in relation to economic, political, social, and cultural phenomena. Taking these structural phenomena, as opposed to the biological or psychical, as points of departure, we will explore how the content and experience of race is a dynamic process that involves dominant and subordinate groups in the production and contestation of a white supremacist order. Through the study of various media and disciplines we will study how this order does not require a racist actor but requires practices, enshrined in the normative structure of institutional life, that culminate in discriminatory practices that are simultaneously the cause and the effect of racial and ethnic discrimination. Institutions to be discussed include but are not limited to those associated with housing, education, healthcare, and criminal justice.
Prerequisite
WRIT 102 or 201; Standard 45 credits prior to registering for an AIP course