Understanding Race in America (short course)

Short course

In Dundee

£ 150 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Short course

  • Level

    Intermediate

  • Location

    Dundee (Scotland)

  • Duration

    11 Weeks

  • Start date

    Different dates available

All modules are reviewed regularly with respect to capacity and delivery. This review may lead to a change in the core and/or optional modules offered on a particular course. Module content is reviewed and may be adjusted as part of this process. In some cases adjustments to content may be significant. Modules may be rescinded permanently or withdrawn on a temporary basis at any time.

Any information regarding the modules offered and their content is therefore subject to change and provided as guidance only to assist you with your choice of course. Reading lists are also provided for information purposes only and do not constitute a final or definitive list.
All of our classes require minimum numbers to run. If a course is cancelled due to insufficient numbers, you will be notified one week before the course start date and given a full refund.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Dundee (Dundee City)
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Fulton Building, DD1 4HN

Start date

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2019

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Subjects

  • American
  • Politics
  • Legal System
  • Society
  • Arts
  • Culture
  • Economy
  • Slavery
  • Political
  • Structural
  • Racialized terrorism

Course programme

The aim of this module is to offer critical examination of the construction and history of race and racial politics in the United States since the colonial period to modern times. Students should demonstrate an understanding of the development of race relations, racism, and its continuous impact on modern American identity, politics, its legal system, society, arts, culture, and economy.

The following will be considered in class:

  • Race as a social construct in connection to slavery
  • Racism as a political and structural tool for power
  • The rise of Jim Crow and strategies of racialized terrorism
  • Power, privilege, gender and whiteness in relation to structural racism
  • 'Ethnohistory' as an historical approach
  • The changing European perspective of racial and post-racial American society
  • Strategies for resistance from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement

Understanding Race in America (short course)

£ 150 VAT inc.