GGS 662SEM - Whiteness, Blackness, and the Construction of Race

Our core objective in this course will be to discursively explore, from an interdisciplinary and transnational perspectives, the concepts of whiteness and blackness as, on one hand, ideological expressions of the artificial construction of racial and ethnic categories in the wake of the Columbian Project and the serendipitous subsequent simultaneity of the globalization of the capitalist mode of production and the imperial domination of the planet by the West, and on the other, as important political economic determinants of the lived experiences of all so effected by these categories. Within this context, the topics to be covered will range from law and legal discourse to class reproduction and class struggles and from identity formation to the empirical and theoretical dialectics of white and black feminism. It must be stressed that this course will not seek to be limited by either theoretical, geographic, or disciplinary boundaries in our quest for intellectual rigor and clarity

Credits: 3