Politics 391RE - Reparations & Polit of Repair

This course will examine arguments for;reparations for slavery with an eye towards;understanding what withholding and extending;reparations have meant for American democracy and;citizenship. We will contextualize arguments for;reparations within a larger conversation about;repairing democratic norms, institutions, and;social conditions within recent democratic;theory. Together we will investigate what;historical and ongoing injustices and;inequalities reparations are meant to repair, how;reparations would address those harms, and how;arguments for reparations have mobilized social;activists on both sides of the question. Our;readings will span history, legal studies,;politics, literature and the arts and arguments;for reparations to be paid by the American state;down to institutions such as corporations,;universities, and other jurisdictions.

This course is open to Juniors and Seniors.; Prereq: 8 credits in Politics.