2021-2022 Catalog

Minor: Race and Anti-Racism, 18 Credits

Observable learning goals of the program:

Students minoring in Race and Anti-Racism will:

  • Demonstrate an understanding of the history and development of concepts of race
  • Engage in critical analysis of the construction and deployment of racial concepts in diverse cultural and historical contexts
  • Engage in critical analysis of racist beliefs, practices, and institutions (systemic and structural racism)
  • Interrogate whiteness and white supremacy at the core of racist beliefs, practices, and institutions
  • Demonstrate understanding of contemporary literature on anti-racism
  • Learn to develop and engage in successful anti-racist strategies

 

Requirements

Required courses: (3 credits)

PHIL 111/PHR 111Introduction to Critical Race Studies

3

Race and Anti-Racism in the Creative Arts (6 credits)

Choose 2 of the following:

AIP 305/EWL 367Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man (UP, REP)

3

COMM 305Race, Class, and Gender in Media

3

COMM 363Black Female Sexuality in Film

3

DANC 311Africa to the Americas

3

EWL 228African-American Literary Traditions

3

EWL 215Reading the British Empire: Racism, Whiteness, and English Literature

3

EWL 311Reading While Black: Writing, Race, and Resistance

3

EWL 327Literature and Film Of The Global Portuguese Empire

3

EWL 329Reading the Contemporary Caribbean

3

EWL 335Slavery in the American Imaginary

3

EWL 359The Empire Writes Back: Contemporary Anticolonial Fiction

3

EWL 365/FREN 365Reading Contemporary Africa

3

Capstone Experience

In consultation with instructor and/or advisor, Race and Anti-Racism minors will either a) transform an upper-level course that counts towards minor requirements into a capstone experience with enhanced assignments, or b) set up an Independent Study that will count towards the minor credit requirements via substitution.

Historical, Cultural, and Political Perspectives (9 credits)

Choose 3 of the following:

AIP 311Cultural, Ethnic and Racial Perspectives in Psychology (CP, REP)

3

AIP 324 Race and Place in Natural Histories of the Americas (CP, REP, UP)

3

AIP 335Understanding American Slavery (UP)

3

AIP 345/PHR 345Civil Rights (REP, UP)

3

AIP 356/PHR 356/SOC 356Structural Racism (REP)

3

HIST 243/IS 243Africa: Colonialism and Globalization

3

HIST 244African American History: The Black Atlantic

3

HIST 246African-American History Since Reconstruction

3

PHR 322/SOC 322 Radical Women of Color Thought in the U.S

3

PHR 324/SOC 324History of Race

3

PHR 359/SOC 359Race and Ethnicity

3

PHR 374/SOC 374Erotic Organization of Race

3

RS 326Religion, Race, and Ethnicity 

3