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Spring Semester 2022
Apr 03, 2026 |
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| Our Voices: Race and Ethnicity in America - Writing Intensive - 20998 - INST 1502 - 01 |
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Associated Term: Spring Semester 2022
Levels: Undergraduate Main Campus Lecture Schedule Type Blended Instructional Method Learning Objectives: We engage the multiple and interlocking ways racism functions in America from its founding to the present, while also examining activism to develop an antiracist society. We read Ta-Nehisi Coates (Between the World and Me and The Water Dancer) for his analysis of how racial identity defines life in the United States; Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor (From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation) who documents whether populations are either protected or patrolled by police agencies; Ibram X. Kendi (How to be an Antiracist) who explains how language structures can help dismantle racist abuse; and Amani Al-Khatahtbeh’s (Muslim Girl: A Coming of Age) for her reflection on the rise and impact of Islamophobia. Contemporary reporting on Latino USA, Code Switch, The Pulse, and Democracy Now!, provide insights about migration and the concentration of Indigenous, Japanese-American, and Central American populations within U.S.-government reservations and camps. These collective voices help us (re)consider how the very conception of race creates the United States of America. Required Materials: Technical Requirements: View Catalog Entry
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