Anthropology 225 - Race, Culture and Education

In this course, we will examine four central questions regarding the anthropology of race and education, focusing on issues in the K-12 levels in the United States. First, what assumptions about "education" and "race" impact policy-making and popular understandings? Second, how are the material conditions of education intimately connected to race? Third, what are the struggles, hopes, and dreams forged by racialized communities around education? Finally, what are the obstacles to achieving racial equity in education and how might we propose they be overcome? (Gen. Ed. SB, DU)