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

Education (10384) DCEH - College of Education and Human Service Professions

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