History 270 - COLQ: AMERICAN- ANIMALS

Topics course: Survey of human-animal relationships from the colonial era through the present. Exploration of how attitudes toward animals reveals adjacent ideas concerning difference, otherness, and the boundaries of humanity. Sustained attention placed on the trajectory of animal welfare and the conjoined logics of race and species in the American imaginary. Topics such as human- and animal-centered reform movements and where they have overlapped historically; the social and cultural construction of race; and the uneven co-evolution of human and animal rights. Enrollment limited to 18. (E)