Afro-American Studies 202 - COLQ: TOPICS IN BLACK STUDIES

Topics course. This course takes as its departure, Lee Baker's text From Savage to Negro and his final chapter in particular, "The Color Blind Bind," in which he articulates the complexities of eradicating race as a meaningful concept while simultaneously dealing with its resultant institutionalized effects. Students will be asked to think through the historical formation of race as a concept, structure, and as a lived reality; what it means to be color-blind and/or post-race at this juncture in primarily U.S. society; and ways to think analytically about coalition building across race and other matrices of oppression.

Topic: The Color Blind Bind: Understanding Race in the 21st Century.