EDUC2105
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EDUC 2105 - The Social Construction of White Identity in the US: Institutional Privilege and Interpersonal Loss (3 Cr.) Race, Power and Justice, Online may be available
Course description
In this course we will explore ideologies of whiteness as manifest at the institutional, epistemological, interpersonal and intrapersonal levels. We will discuss whiteness as a proxy for class relations, as encoded legally, as well as its materiality effected through mass incarceration and residential and school segregation. In the contexts of schooling, we will examine how whiteness operates at the level of curriculum and instruction, as well as theorize anti-racist white identity.
Minimum credits
3
Maximum credits
3
Is this course repeatable?
No
Grading basis
AFV - A-F or Audit
Lecture
This course fulfills the following Liberal Education requirement(s)
Theorizing Race, Power, and Justice
Typically offered term(s)
Periodic Fall & Summer