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POLI045 PO - Politics of Race and Ethnicity

When Offered: Spring 2019.
Instructor(s): S. Sadhwani
Credit: 1

This course will examine critical questions and debates in race, ethnicity, and politics. It utilizes a multi-disciplinary approach to investigate the history of racial and ethnic minorities in the U.S. and examines the interaction of minority politics with broader American politics. The course begins with theoretical conceptions of race and ethnicity and how they inform notions of citizenship, group membership, structural racism, and racial hierarchies. Subsequent topics include voting and redistricting, electoral politics, segregation and discrimination, social movements, and cooperation and competition within and among minority groups. Finally, selected contemporary policy issues and practices will be discussed including criminal justice policy and mass incarceration, surveillance and policing, BLM, Immigrant Rights movement, affirmative action, Dakota Access Pipeline protests, and reparations. Prerequisites: POLI 003 PO . Letter grade only.
This course has been revised for spring 2021 .
Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
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