<p>Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Requisite: English Composition 3. Introduction to interdisciplinary study of race and ethnicity, with primary focus on literature. Through examination of institutions that form understanding of race—citizenship, nationalism, class, gender, and labor—interrogation of how we come to think of ourselves and others as having race, and effects of such racialized thinking. Course is not about any particular racial or ethnic group, but highlights creation of ethnic categories and their effects on cultural production. P/NP or letter grading.</p>

English

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College of Letters and Science

The department is dedicated to the study of the literatures and cultures of those parts of the world in which English is a primary language.

General Catalog

Ways of Reading Race

ENGL100

5 units