Political Science 257 - Race and U.S. Politics

This course is one part theoretical, presenting race as a multifaceted concept that is both a social construct and a social fact; one part historical, exploring how race in the United States has been constructed over time through institutions like the Census and in response to different waves of immigration; and one part political, surveying the politics of race in the United States from slavery to civil rights to Donald Trump and interrogating the relationship between race and other lenses through which U.S. politics can be studied, such as class.

Enrollment limit 40 students. Fall semester. Visiting Assistant Professor Wise.