2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
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PHIL 215 - Philosophy of Race


CR: 3
A detailed philosophical examination of the concept, historical formation, and social reality of race, raciality, and racism. Possible questions to be explored include the following: is the category of race biologically determined, socially (historically, politically, culturally) constructed, or both? What is the meaning of this concept of race, and what role does it play in individual and collective identity formation? What is the historical relationship between race and power? Is racism best understood as a kind of personal attitude, emotion, and belief, or rather as a structural and systematic phenomenon? What are the relations between race and ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality? How do race and racism function outside the United States and in contexts that go beyond the black-white dichotomy?



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