The Making of Race & Class from a Global Perspective

Course Code: L97 19001
MWF 10am – 11am
Prof. Derek Pardue
3 units

Do race and class matter in today's world? Has race always existed as a human category of difference? How do other cultures outside the US configure race? Is race just a black and white thing? What about class, is it just an economic category? Is class influenced by culture? To address these and other questions we will focus on the historical and cultural peculiarities of race and class. We will talk about race not as a thing but more as a process ("racialization") that we all engage in to make sense of human difference. Likewise, we will discuss class as a process, hence the title of the course: "the making of…" This course asks students to move conceptually from the era of European colonialism and the invention of the modern conception of "race" to the US Civil War period to the ascension of negritude as well as contemporary times. In a complementary fashion, to assert that, in fact, race and class do matter requires students to investigate the diversity and complexity in various places, such as Brazil, Martinique, Haiti, China, South Africa, and the US.

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