Critical Race and Political Economy
David Hernández, Co-chair
Vanessa Rosa, Co-chair
Bridget Barrett, Academic Department Coordinator
109 Shattuck Hall
413-538-2257
https://www.mtholyoke.edu/academics/find-your-program/critical-race-and-political-economy
Overview and Contact Information
Critical Race and Political Economy (CRPE) introduces students to the intersectional and interdisciplinary study of race, colonialism, migration, and political economy. This program provides a comparative and relational framework for examining law, policing, education, housing, political economy, arts, media, and representation in local and global contexts.
Within the CRPE major, each student may complete a pathway in CRPE, in Africana Studies, or in Critical Social Thought. Minors are available in CRPE, Africana Studies, and Latinx Studies. Advanced seminars allow students to use this framework for in-depth study of a particular pathway.
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Learning Goals
Students will:
- Understand the mutual constitution and relative autonomy of axes of social differentiation;
- Comprehend how national boundaries, as well as local, national and transnational cultures and politics affect the constitution of racial and ethnic categories; and
- Compare representations of borderlands, hybridity, migration and diaspora from different cultures.
Faculty
This area of study is administered by the Department of Critical Race and Political Economy:
Kristie Ford, Director of the Intergroup Dialogue Center; Professor of Sociology and Critical Race and Political Economy
Lucas Wilson, Professor of Economics and Critical Race and Political Economy on the Ford Foundation
David Hernández, Associate Professor of Latinx Studies and Critical Race and Political Economy
Ren-yo Hwang, Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Critical Race and Political Economy, On Leave 2025-2026
Vanessa Rosa, Associate Professor of Latinx Studies and Critical Race and Political Economy
Maria Abello Hurtado, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies and Critical Race and Political Economy
Pilar Eguez Guevara, Visiting Assistant Professor in Critical Race and Political Economy
Alexis Holloway, Mount Holyoke Fellow and Visiting Lecturer in Critical Race and Political Economy
Requirements for the Major
Each student may select the CRPE pathway, the Africana Studies pathway, or the Critical Social Thought pathway within the major, selecting from courses approved for their pathway. The pathway will be recorded on the transcript upon graduation from the major.
CRPE Pathway
A minimum of 40 credits:
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| One introductory course in critical race and cultural theory: | 4 | |
| Introduction to Latinx Studies: Structural Inequalities | ||
| Foundations of Africana Studies | ||
| Foundations in Critical Social Thought | ||
| At least 8 credits at the 200 level from the approved course list for People, Power, Place 1 | 8 | |
| At least 8 credits at the 200 level from the approved course list for Representation 1 | 8 | |
| 12 credits in CRPE at the 300 level 2 | 12 | |
| 8 additional credits in CRPE at any level 2 | 8 | |
| Total Credits | 40 | |
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See Courses section for lists of approved courses in these specific areas.
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See Courses section for lists of CRPE approved courses across the curriculum.
Critical Social Thought Pathway
A minimum of 40 credits:
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| CRPE-205 | Foundations in Critical Social Thought | 4 |
| At least 4 credits at the 200 level from the approved course list for People, Power, Place 1 | 4 | |
| At least 4 credits at the 200 level from the approved course list for Representation 1 | 4 | |
| 8 credits in CST at the 200 level 2 | 8 | |
| 8 credits in CST at the 300 level 2 | 8 | |
| CRPE-392 | Senior Seminar | 4 |
| 8 additional credits in CST at any level 2 | 8 | |
| Total Credits | 40 | |
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See Courses section for lists of approved courses in these specific areas.
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See Courses section for lists of CST approved courses across the curriculum.
Africana Studies Pathway
A minimum of 40 credits:
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| CRPE-200 | Foundations of Africana Studies | 4 |
| At least 4 credits at the 200 level from the approved course list for People, Power, Place 1 | 4 | |
| At least 4 credits at the 200 level from the approved course list for Representation 1 | 4 | |
| 8 credits in Africana Studies at the 200 level 2 | 8 | |
| 12 credits in Africana Studies at the 300 level 2 | 12 | |
| 8 additional credits in Africana Studies at any level 2 | 8 | |
| Total Credits | 40 | |
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See Courses section for lists of approved courses in these specific areas.
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See Courses section for lists of Africana Studies approved courses across the curriculum.
Requirements for the Minor
Each student may select a CRPE minor, an Africana Studies minor, or a Latinx minor, selecting from courses approved for their minor.
CRPE Minor
A minimum of 20 credits:
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| One introductory course in critical race and cultural theory: | 4 | |
| Introduction to Latinx Studies: Structural Inequalities | ||
| Foundations of Africana Studies | ||
| Foundations in Critical Social Thought | ||
| At least 4 credits at the 200 level from the approved course list for People, Power, Place 1 | 4 | |
| At least 4 credits at the 200 level from the approved course list for Representation 1 | 4 | |
| Four additional credits at the 200 level from the approved course list for People, Power, Place or Representation 1 | 4 | |
| Four credits in CRPE at the 300 level 2 | 4 | |
| Total Credits | 20 | |
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See Courses section for lists of approved courses in these specific areas.
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See Courses section for a list of approved CRPE courses across the curriculum.
Africana Studies Minor
A minimum of 20 credits:
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| CRPE-200 | Foundations of Africana Studies | 4 |
| Twelve credits credits at the 200 level or higher from the approved course list for Africana Studies 1 | 12 | |
| Four credits at the 300 level from the approved course list for Africana Studies 1, 2 | 4 | |
| Total Credits | 20 | |
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See Courses section for a list of approved Africana Studies courses across the curriculum.
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CRPE-395 may not be counted towards the minimum 4 credits at the 300 level.
Latinx Studies Minor
A minimum of 20 credits:
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| CRPE-180 | Introduction to Latinx Studies: Structural Inequalities | 4 |
| At least one course at the 300 level from the approved course list for Latinx Studies | 4 | |
| Three other courses at the 200 or 300 level from the approved course list for Latinx Studies | 12 | |
| Total Credits | 20 | |
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See Courses section for a list of approved Latinx Studies courses across the curriculum.
Additional Specifications
Course Advice
CRPE courses are taught by core, affiliated, and other campus faculty. CRPE courses are also tagged as CRPE (1), Africana Studies (2), Critical Social Thought (3), Latinx Studies (4), Collaboratory (CO), People Power Place (PE), and Representations (RE), which you can jump to from the menu above. Beyond these tagged courses, if there is a course taken at MHC or the Five Colleges that the student believes can count for the CRPE major, the student should meet with the CRPE Chair for permission.
Each major pathway requires a foundation course. Students are welcome to take any of the other foundation courses (CRPE-180 Introduction to Latinx Studies: Structural Inequalities, CRPE-200 Foundations of Africana Studies, CRPE-205 Foundations in Critical Social Thought) as an elective.
Course Offerings
CRPE-180 Introduction to Latinx Studies: Structural Inequalities
Fall. Credits: 4
The course is an overview of the social conditions of Latinx people within the US. It addresses laws, policies and institutions that shape the complexity of Latinxes' social location and activism as well as legal constructions of race, citizenship, nomenclature, border politics, public health, education, and labor. We will consider the intersections of class, gender and sexuality as well as inequality in relation to other persons of color. Students will develop a firm sense of the importance and breadth of the Latinx political agenda and acquire skills to think across social issues. The course may include a Community Based Learning (CBL) Mentor.
Applies to requirement(s): Social Sciences; Multicultural Perspectives
Other Attribute(s): Community-Based Learning
CRPE-200 Foundations of Africana Studies
Fall. Credits: 4
This reading- and writing-intensive course draws upon the intellectual traditions of African American, African, and African diasporic studies in order to explore the connections and disjunctures among people of African descent. While the course pays attention to national, regional, and historical contexts, it asks this question: what do African descended people have in common and when and how are their experiences and interests different? What can we glean from contemporary discourses grounded in the consideration of global black lives?
Applies to requirement(s): Social Sciences; Multicultural Perspectives
Other Attribute(s): Writing-Intensive
CRPE-205 Foundations in Critical Social Thought
Spring. Credits: 4
This class introduces students to the interdisciplinary field of Critical Social Thought. Students will learn to interrogate and challenge structures of social, cultural, and political power from a variety of theoretical traditions, such as Marxism, critical ethnic studies, queer and gender critique, critical race theory, media studies, performance studies, disability studies, history of science, the Frankfurt school, and settler colonial and postcolonial theory. Developing skills in theoretical and social critique to address pressing social issues, students will be equipped with an interdisciplinary toolbox to pursue independent projects.
Applies to requirement(s): Social Sciences; Multicultural Perspectives
Other Attribute(s): Speaking-Intensive
CRPE-208 Introduction to Twentieth-Century Critical Race Theory
Fall. Credits: 4
This course examines the discursive relationship between race, power and law in contemporary U.S. society. Readings examine the ways in which racial bodies are constituted in the cultural economy of American society where citizens of African descent dwell. We explore the rules and social practices that govern the relationship of race to gender, nationality, sexuality, and class in U.S. courts and other cultural institutions. Thinkers covered include W.E.B. DuBois, Kimberle Crenshaw, Derrick Bell, and Richard Delgado, among others.
Applies to requirement(s): Social Sciences; Multicultural Perspectives
Restrictions: Course limited to sophomores, juniors and seniors
CRPE-228 Visualizing Immigrant Narratives: Migration in Film
Fall. Credits: 4
This course offers an interrogation of overt and embedded narratives of migrants and the migration process in popular and documentary film, paying specific attention to cinematic representations of non-citizen bodies confronting migration, deportation, labor, acculturation, and anti-immigrant hysteria. Film screenings and class discussions comprise the interpretative lens through which students will examine the aesthetic, cultural, economic, gendered, historical, political, racial and sexual dimensions of cultural texts. The course is supplemented with readings about immigration policies and histories.
Applies to requirement(s): Humanities; Multicultural Perspectives
CRPE-231 Dialoguing for Racial Change
Spring. Credits: 4
A critical analysis of race, racism, and justice in the United States, as set in a socio-historical context defined by power. In addition to traditional modes of teaching-learning, students use intergroup dialogue and collaborative group work to examine how race is constructed, experienced, reproduced, and transformed within social structures. Topics include racial identity development and how individuals internalize and "live race" in everyday interactions; historical mechanisms for how bodies and spaces have become "raced" over time; institutional dimensions of racial inequality (e.g., law, education, popular culture); and practices for pursuing racial justice.
Crosslisted as: SOCI-216DR
Applies to requirement(s): Social Sciences; Multicultural Perspectives
Instructor permission required.
Advisory: Application form: https://forms.gle/HP8Bbv5LatjjwmKh6
CRPE-239 Latinx Urbanism
Not Scheduled for This Year. Credits: 4
This course examines the relationship between the urban and Latina/o/x placemaking, identities and culture(s). Urban scholars have long studied the "evolving" city -- this course explores the changing city in relation to Latina/o/x populations and urban social change movements. We examine historical and contemporary conditions and cover a broad range of topics including: urbanization, urban planning, "new urbanism," placemaking, gentrification, migration/immigration, segregation, and more. The readings in this course aim to provoke a consideration of the dynamic between space and place, as well as how urban life, culture, and form impacts Latina/o/x populations and vice versa.
Applies to requirement(s): Social Sciences; Multicultural Perspectives
CRPE-240 Intermediate Topics
CRPE-240AC Topics in Critical Social Thought: 'Aliens, Anti-Citizens, and Identities'
Spring. Credits: 4
The course will examine marginal and "alien" citizenship statuses in the United States. Whereas the Declaration of Independence asserts that "all men are created equal," we will interrogate that statement by studying identities and personages that are explicitly treated unequally in the law and society. From immigrants to gang members, from tipped workers to queer persons, from presumed terrorists to disenfranchised ex-cons, we will examine the deliberate incorporation and maintenance of people in society into lower classes and statuses.
Applies to requirement(s): Social Sciences; Multicultural Perspectives
CRPE-240BE Intermediate Topics: 'Black Ethnographers'
Fall. Credits: 4
The aim of this class is to underscore the significance of Black perspectives and contributions within the field of anthropology. Black anthropology, and especially Black feminist anthropology, has historically been sidelined within anthropological discourse. In this course, we will collectively challenge this historical erasure by centering the work of Black ethnographers. By delving into works spanning continental Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States, students will begin to understand the vast impact Black ethnographers have had both in and outside the field of anthropology.
Crosslisted as: ANTHR-216BE
Applies to requirement(s): Social Sciences; Multicultural Perspectives
Other Attribute(s): Speaking-Intensive, Writing-Intensive
CRPE-240BR Intermediate Topics: 'Borderlands Film and Literature'
Not Scheduled for This Year. Credits: 4
In Borderlands/La Frontera, Gloria Anzaldua asserts that material change is impossible without changing the cultural imagery in our minds. Latinx Borderlands artists have effected such change through their cultural production. This course will introduce students to Borderlands literature and film, and will provide an overview of Mexican American, Chicanx, and other Latinx artistic production from the U.S- Mexico border region. The course will closely examine how these texts reflect borderland folklore, social issues, and "fronterizo" identities. Students will read multiple registers of artistic production, including fiction, non-fiction, poetry, drama, testimonio, and folk song lyrics.
Applies to requirement(s): Humanities; Multicultural Perspectives
Other Attribute(s): Writing-Intensive
CRPE-240BX Intermediate Topics: 'Introduction to Black Sexual Cultures/Sexuality Studies'
Fall. Credits: 4
This course examines the ways in which race, gender, and class have shaped the experiences of people of African descent. It explores how the concept of sexuality offers a unique lens for rethinking both historical and contemporary discussions on the formation of Black identity and personhood, while being particularly attentive to a queer archive. By prioritizing Blackness, the course critically engages with the interconnections between race, gender, and sexuality, aiming to separate whiteness from LGBTQ+ studies and heterosexuality from Black studies. With a focus on how Black individuals have asserted social and sexual agency despite systemic oppression, we will draw on frameworks coming out of critical race theory, Black feminist thought, queer and trans*-of-color critique, as well as attend to genres of creation that include literature, art, performance, new media, and the erotic. By the end of this course, students will have gained a deeper appreciation for the complexity and diversity of Black sexuality, as well as the cultural and political implications that surround its productions. They will be equipped with the critical tools to engage in meaningful dialogues about representation, expression, and the power of pleasure within the context of Black life and sexual legacies.
Crosslisted as: GNDST-204BX
Applies to requirement(s): Humanities; Multicultural Perspectives
Other Attribute(s): Speaking-Intensive, Writing-Intensive
CRPE-240EF Intermediate Topics: 'Ethnographic Food Documentary'
Not Scheduled for This Year. Credits: 4
Students will learn basic skills on ethnographic methods in anthropology as they are introduced to issues of food and culinary cultural practices, politics and history. Selected readings and films will explore the intersections of food with colonialism, race and ethnicity, gender, health, political economy, and social movements. The course has a focus on Latinx and Latin American/Caribbean foodways, however students will apply the course's conceptual toolkit in a wide range of cultural settings. Students will learn techniques of participant observation, interviews, script writing and visual analysis to conduct fieldwork in a local cultural community in South Hadley and surroundings, as they are guided towards producing a short ethnographic food documentary.
Crosslisted as: ANTHR-216FD
Applies to requirement(s): Social Sciences; Multicultural Perspectives
Other Attribute(s): Community-Based Learning
CRPE-240FD Intermediate Topics: 'U.S. Latinx Foodways'
Fall. Credits: 4
This interdisciplinary seminar explores the relationship between food, race, and migration for Latinx populations in the U.S. We will draw upon readings from the social sciences and the humanities to investigate processes of racial formation embedded in the production, labor, and consumption of foods and how these processes affect Latinx populations. What can Latinx foodstuffs and foodways reveal about U.S. racial and migration dynamics, landscapes, and politics? What social worlds and power relations emerge at the nexus of food, race, and migration? The course is organized thematically and anchored in selected case studies.
Applies to requirement(s): Humanities; Multicultural Perspectives
CRPE-240LC Intermediate Topics: 'La Cultura Cura: Healing Through Language and Culture'
Spring. Credits: 4
Using the lens of anthropology and Latinx studies, this course offers theoretical and practical tools for understanding difference, transforming conflict and advancing social change. We will learn how racial, ethnic and other social differences are created through culture, power, language and representation. As we learn to recognize our differences we will also learn, practice and take away a toolkit of transformational skills and frameworks for healing and communicating effectively across those differences, including la cultura cura (culture heals), cultural competence, non-violent communication, emotional literacy, mindfulness and storytelling.
Applies to requirement(s): Social Sciences; Multicultural Perspectives
Other Attribute(s): Speaking-Intensive
CRPE-240LF Intermediate Topics: 'Latinas in Film'
Fall. Credits: 4
This course will examine Latinas as both subjects and creators of visual narratives and cultural representations. Students will view a range of films about and by Latinas in historical and cross-cultural perspective. Each film will be paired with selected readings and examined in class discussions from aesthetic, cultural, racial, gendered, historical and political dimensions. Latinas will be treated as a gender-inclusive category with trans representation present in the course films and readings selection. Central to the discussions will be the ways in which the Latina body, marked by race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality, is used to produce meaning about Latinidad in the United States, as well as how those conceptions have shifted over time. Ultimately, students will apply a basic conceptual toolkit in cinematic, narrative structure and cultural criticism to examine films about and by Latinas as their final class project.
Applies to requirement(s): Humanities; Multicultural Perspectives
Other Attribute(s): Speaking-Intensive
CRPE-240RE Intermediate Topics: 'Representing Race'
Fall. Credits: 4
This class takes a ~look~ at the components of racial representation in audio-visual media: How can ideas and theories be conveyed or communicated through a visual mode? What ethical concerns emerge when representing others in different media? Drawing from written texts, documentaries, graphic novels, and artwork, we will explore the myriad ways media creatives construct racial representations, and question the perceived boundary between research and art. Starting with early anthropological film, this class will move through both conventional and nontraditional material that is used to tell stories, make political statements, and represent people's lived experiences.
Crosslisted as: ANTHR-216RC
Applies to requirement(s): Social Sciences; Multicultural Perspectives
Other Attribute(s): Speaking-Intensive, Writing-Intensive
CRPE-244 The Historical-Grammar of Black Feminist Thought Across the Caribbean and the Americas
Fall. Credits: 4
This class aims to raise student awareness of and exposure to different cultural backgrounds and contributions of Black feminist thought, womanism, and afro feminism across the Caribbean and the Americas. We will take a historical journey exploring the roles of cisgender Black women and gender-non-confirmative Black people in the formations of Black feminist thought, highlighting their contributions and struggles in dismantling the Western matrix of domination, but also in the radical building of new societies. Students will learn about the groundbreaking theories and methodologies that helped pave the way for contemporary feminist organizations and social movements.
Crosslisted as: GNDST-206BF
Applies to requirement(s): Humanities; Multicultural Perspectives
Other Attribute(s): Speaking-Intensive, Writing-Intensive
CRPE-254 Nueva York
Not Scheduled for This Year. Credits: 4
This course will explore the history of Latina/o/x populations in New York City. Students will learn about histories of migration and settlement, urban inequality, community building, and urban transformation with particular focus on the Puerto Rican population in New York City. The course will examine the many ways Latinas/os/x have transformed New York City and built vibrant communities.
Applies to requirement(s): Social Sciences; Multicultural Perspectives
Other Attribute(s): Speaking-Intensive
CRPE-256 Trap Doors and Glittering Closets: Queer/Trans* of Color Politics of Recognition, Legibility, Visibility and Aesthetics
Not Scheduled for This Year. Credits: 4
In 2014, Time magazine declared the "Transgender Tipping Point" as a popular moment of transgender people's arrival into the mainstream. Using a queer and trans* of color critique, this course will unpack the political discourses and seeming binaries surrounding visibility/invisibility, recognition/misrecognition, legibility/illegibility, belonging/unbelonging and aesthetics/utility. How might we grapple with the contradictions of the trapdoors, pitfalls, dark corners and glittering closets that structure and normalize violence for some while safeguarding violence for others? This course will center the 2017 anthology Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility.
Crosslisted as: GNDST-204CP
Applies to requirement(s): Humanities; Multicultural Perspectives
Other Attribute(s): Writing-Intensive
Prereq: One course in CRPE, Gender Studies, or CST.
CRPE-257 Transforming Justice and Practicing Truth to Power: Critical Methodologies and Methods in Community Participatory Action Research and Accountability
Not Scheduled for This Year. Credits: 4
This course will offer an overview of select methodologies and methods from Community-based Participatory Action Research (CBPAR), Participatory Action Research (PAR), collaborative ethnography and other social justice research interventions such as radical oral history, grassroots research collectives, experimental digital archives, research and data justice networks and organizations. We will center on questions of "accountability"; that is, to whom, for whom, and to what end do processes of accountability serve those already in power? Moreover, we will investigate the chasms between academia and activism in order to explore the possibility of unlikely collaborative research alliances.
Crosslisted as: GNDST-204TJ
Applies to requirement(s): Humanities; Multicultural Perspectives
Other Attribute(s): Community-Based Learning
Prereq: 4 credits in Gender Studies, Critical Social Thought, or Critical Race and Political Economy.
CRPE-261 Race, Racism, and Power
Spring. Credits: 4
This course analyzes the concepts of race and racism from an interdisciplinary perspective, with focus on Latinas/os/x in the United States. It explores the sociocultural, political, economic, and historical forces that interact with each other in the production of racial categories. We will focus on structural, systemic, and institutional racism and processes of racialization. The course examines racial inequality from a historical perspective and investigates how racial categories evolve and form across contexts. The analysis that develops will ultimately allow us to think rigorously about social inequality, transformation, and liberation.
Applies to requirement(s): Social Sciences; Multicultural Perspectives
CRPE-295 Independent Study
Fall and Spring. Credits: 1 - 4
Restrictions: Contact instructor for independent study declaration form and signatures.
Instructor permission required.
CRPE-308 Luminous Darkness: African American Social Thought After DuBois
Spring. Credits: 4
Examines the life, work, and legacies of WEB DuBois. Drawing on domestic and diasporic fictional and nonfictional meditations on Black life and progress in and beyond the 'DuBoisian century,' the course considers the changing meanings of and movements for global racial justice for people of African descent. The course also confronts the globalization of the color line in the post-Civil Rights/Black Power era. Due to increasing precarity for the masses, emphasis is given to more recent ideas like afro-pessimism, racial capitalism, and afro-futurism, as contemporary responses to DuBois's 1903 question, 'How does it feel to be a problem?' Readings by Jemisin, Gyasi, Robinson, Fields, Butler, Davis, Ransby, Hartman, Wilderson, Fanon, YamahttaTaylor, among others form the core of the course.
Applies to requirement(s): Social Sciences; Multicultural Perspectives
Prereq: 8 credits in Africana Studies, Critical Social Thought, or Critical Race and Political Economy.
CRPE-323 Latina Feminism(s)
Fall. Credits: 4
In this seminar, we will explore the relationship between Latina feminist theory and knowledge production. We will examine topics related to positionality, inequality, the body, reproductive justice, representation, and community. Our approach in this class will employ an intersectional approach to feminist theory that understands the interconnectedness between multiple forms of oppression, including race, class, sexuality, and ability. Our goal is to develop a robust understanding of how Latina feminist methodologies and epistemologies can be tools for social change.
Crosslisted as: GNDST-333FM
Applies to requirement(s): Social Sciences; Multicultural Perspectives
Restrictions: Course limited to sophomores, juniors and seniors
Prereq: 8 credits in Latina/o Studies, Gender Studies, Critical Social Thought, or Critical Race and Political Economy.
CRPE-339 Abolitionist Dreams and Everyday Resistance: Freedom Memoirs, Struggles, and Decolonizing Justice
Not Scheduled for This Year. Credits: 4
This seminar will offer close theoretical readings of a variety of anti-colonial, abolitionist, anti-imperialist, insurgent and feminist-of-color memoir, autobiographical and social justice texts. We will read works from Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Assata Shakur, Patrisse Cullors, Grace Lee Boggs, Audre Lorde, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarsinna, Leila Khaled, Fannie Lou Hamer, Sarah Ahmed, Lee Maracle, Kai Cheng Thom, Angela Davis, Sojourner Truth, adrienne maree brown, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Mary Brave Bird, Jamaica Kincaid, Gabby Rivera and Haunani-Kay Trask. We will center the interlinking and capacious concepts of liberation, revolution, freedom, justice and decolonization.
Crosslisted as: GNDST-333AD
Applies to requirement(s): Humanities; Multicultural Perspectives
Other Attribute(s): Writing-Intensive
Restrictions: This course is open to juniors and seniors
Prereq: One course in Gender Studies, Critical Social Thought, or Critical Race and Political Economy at the 200 level or above.
CRPE-340 Advanced Topics
CRPE-340GH Advanced Topics: 'Girlhood Studies in Critical Race and Political Economy'
Spring. Credits: 4
This course explores some of the central themes in girlhood studies through critical race and political economy lenses. We will dig into questions such as: What does it mean to be socially considered a girl? Who defines girlhood? How is girlhood defined, shaped, and experienced in different societies, cultures, and periods? How do historical hierarchies of race, class, gender, and sexuality affect the girlhood experience? As we enter the heart of this interdisciplinary academic field that seeks to understand the complexities of existing as a girl, we will revisit the origins and evolution of the field as a distinctive area of study.
Crosslisted as: GNDST-333GH
Applies to requirement(s): Humanities; Multicultural Perspectives
Other Attribute(s): Speaking-Intensive, Writing-Intensive
Restrictions: This course is open to juniors and seniors
CRPE-362 Facilitating for Racial Change
Fall. Credits: 4
What factors hinder meaningful dialogues on race within the U.S. context? What facilitation skills promote interracial communication and collaboration across axes of difference? How might these co-created dialogic spaces help promote social transformation and change? This course is designed to prepare students to facilitate dialogues on race and other social-justice related topics by bridging sociological theory on race and racial identity development with engaged praxis using Intergroup Dialogue (IGD) pedagogical techniques.
Crosslisted as: SOCI-362
Applies to requirement(s): Multicultural Perspectives
Instructor permission required.
Prereqs: CRPE-231, SOCI-216, or CUSP-215RR, and additional 8 credits in Critical Race Politial Economy or Sociology.
Notes: The application can be found here: https://forms.gle/2GQXLiC3oadn3KrKA
CRPE-363 A Social Movements' History of the States from Grassroots Organizing to Social Movements
Spring. Credits: 4
This course will be an interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary exploration of grassroots organizing, community experiences, and social movements from 1700 to the present day by highlighting how community organizing has been affected by socio-structural problems and, in the words of Patricia Hill Collins, "the matrix of oppression"; but also by critically analyzing the historical contributions of grassroots organizations to dismantling all systems of domination. We will track how various organizations and social movements have understood, challenged, contested, and transformed power hierarchies. Simultaneously we will enter the history of community organizing in the United States of America and interrogate how multidimensional processes of racialization, gender classification, class, and sexual division inform experiences within and around these social movements.
Applies to requirement(s): Humanities; Multicultural Perspectives
Other Attribute(s): Speaking-Intensive, Writing-Intensive
Restrictions: This course is open to juniors and seniors
CRPE-366 Disposable People: A History of Deportation
Not Scheduled for This Year. Credits: 4
This course explores comparative racial and ethnic politics in the U.S. during the 20th century. We will analyze the creation and maintenance of structural inequalities through laws and policies targeted at persons of color in the areas of healthcare, transportation, immigration, labor, racial segregation, and education. Through readings, lectures and films, we will discuss critical histories of community struggle against social inequality, registering the central impact that race, class, gender, sexuality, and citizenship have had on efforts toward social justice.
Applies to requirement(s): Social Sciences; Multicultural Perspectives
Restrictions: This course is open to juniors and seniors
CRPE-367 Slavery, Prison, and Captivity: Narratives of Life In and Out of Bondage
Spring. Credits: 4
This course will be a multidisciplinary exploration of narratives produced by enslaved people, captivity experiences, and histories of imprisonment from the 17th to the present day by highlighting how these narratives were connected to artistic and socio-political movements of their times. The class will critically analyze the historical contributions of the narratives of enslaved people that shape ideas of justice, emancipation, and new societies. We will chronologically track how several narratives of enslaved and captive people described, challenged, contested, and attempted to dismantle hegemonic power structures.
Applies to requirement(s): Humanities; Multicultural Perspectives
Other Attribute(s): Speaking-Intensive, Writing-Intensive
Restrictions: This course is open to juniors and seniors
CRPE-371 Free Them All: Abolition Feminism and Anticarceral Action Research
Not Scheduled for This Year. Credits: 4
This course will center the activism, theories and praxis of abolition feminism. We will collectively study how interpersonal violence (gender, racial, sexual, ableist) is intertwined with state violence (from domestic policing to militarism abroad). Through investigating the legal history of the criminalization of survivors alongside mainstream antiviolence research and statistics, we will challenge the use of criminological binaries such as victim/perpetrator and violent/nonviolent. Partnering with coalitions like Survived and Punished National, this course is structured by a series of anti-carceral action research projects such as contributing to active survivor defense campaigns.
Crosslisted as: GNDST-333CF
Applies to requirement(s): Social Sciences; Multicultural Perspectives
Other Attribute(s): Community-Based Learning, Writing-Intensive
R. Hwang
Prereq: Two courses in Gender Studies, Critical Social Thought, or Critical Race and Political Economy at the 200 level or above.
CRPE-372 Transforming Harm and Mutual Aid: A Transformative Justice Lab
Not Scheduled for This Year. Credits: 4
The overall goal of this course is to make explicit connections between mutual aid and transformative justice, and the intertwined place-based and community histories in which these interventions continue to be made. Students will leave with a grounded understanding of the connections, tensions and differences between transformative justice and restorative justice and criminal justice. Alongside Dean Spade's Mutual Aid Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next), students will be introduced to the radical history of mutual aid -- learning the difference between "charity" and "solidarity" -- and how mutual aid might interrupt systemic to interpersonal harm.
Crosslisted as: GNDST-333TH
Applies to requirement(s): Humanities
Other Attribute(s): Community-Based Learning
Prereq: A 200-level course in Gender Studies, Critical Social Thought, or Critical Race and Political Economy.
CRPE-373 Abolition and Radical Textiles
Not Scheduled for This Year. Credits: 4
How do the topics of abolition and textiles come together? Marginalized communities have historically used folkloric, textile arts and material culture to amplify abolitionist causes. From secret quilt codes of the Underground Railroad to an abolitionist community sustained by a silk mill in Florence, Massachusetts how might thinking with textiles intervene on patriarchal systems rooted in rigidity, isolation and punishment? From the social devaluation of domesticized and feminized labor of weaving, quilting, sewing to banners, students will theorize and experiment with textiles, leaving with a grounded understanding of how textiles/fibers can and have played an essential role in the history of abolition.
Crosslisted as: ARTST-380TX, GNDST-333TX
Applies to requirement(s): Humanities; Multicultural Perspectives
Other Attribute(s): Speaking-Intensive, Writing-Intensive, Community-Based Learning
Prereq: 8 credits in Critical Race and Political Economy, Gender Studies, and/or Art Studio.
Notes: This course has a $75 materials fee.
CRPE-374 Latinx Immigration
Spring. Credits: 4
The course provides an historical and topical overview of Latina/o migration to the United States. We will examine the economic, political, and social antecedents to Latin American migration, and the historical impact of the migration process in the U.S. Considering migration from Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, we will discuss the social construction of race, the gendered nature of migration, migrant labor struggles, Latin American-U.S. Latino relations, immigration policy, and border life and enforcement. Notions of citizenship, race, class, gender, and sexuality will be central to our understanding of the complexity at work in the migration process.
Applies to requirement(s): Social Sciences; Multicultural Perspectives
Other Attribute(s): Community-Based Learning
Restrictions: This course is open to juniors and seniors
Notes: Community-based learning is optional in this class.
CRPE-392 Senior Seminar
Fall. Credits: 4
This course brings seniors together to develop and carry out a capstone project related to their specific interests while exploring the relationships among theory, activism, research and practice in gender studies and/or critical social thought. Projects can take different forms. Seniors with diverse interests, perspectives, and expertise will have the opportunity to reflect on the significance of their education in relation to their current and past work, their capstone or senior projects, their academic studies as a whole or their engagements outside of academia. Course readings and discussion will be shaped by students in collaboration with the instructor.
Crosslisted as: GNDST-392
Applies to requirement(s): Humanities
Other Attribute(s): Speaking-Intensive, Writing-Intensive
Restrictions: This course is limited to seniors.; This course is limited to CRPE and Gender Studies majors only.
CRPE-395 Independent Study
Fall and Spring. Credits: 1 - 8
Restrictions: Contact instructor for independent study declaration form and signatures.
Instructor permission required.
Courses Meeting Requirements for CRPE's Major Pathways, Minors, and Categories
CRPE Major Pathway/Minor
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropology | ||
| ANTHR-216BE | Special Topics in Anthropology: 'Black Ethnographers' | 4 |
| ANTHR-216FD | Special Topics in Anthropology: 'Ethnographic Food Documentary' | 4 |
| ANTHR-216RC | Special Topics in Anthropology: 'Representing Race' | 4 |
| ANTHR-316VN | Special Topics in Anthropology: 'Violence and the State' | 4 |
| ANTHR-342 | Science as Culture | 4 |
| ANTHR-352 | Digital Cultures | 4 |
| Art Studio | ||
| ARTST-380TX | Advanced Topics in Art Studio: 'Abolition and Radical Textiles' | 4 |
| Biological Sciences | ||
| BIOL-354 | Race and Biology | 4 |
| College(Interdeptmnt) Courses | ||
| COLL-224 | Being Human in STEM | 4 |
| Critical Race & Political Econ | ||
| CRPE-180 | Introduction to Latinx Studies: Structural Inequalities | 4 |
| CRPE-200 | Foundations of Africana Studies | 4 |
| CRPE-205 | Foundations in Critical Social Thought | 4 |
| CRPE-208 | Introduction to Twentieth-Century Critical Race Theory | 4 |
| CRPE-228 | Visualizing Immigrant Narratives: Migration in Film | 4 |
| CRPE-231 | Dialoguing for Racial Change | 4 |
| CRPE-239 | Latinx Urbanism | 4 |
| CRPE-240BE | Intermediate Topics: 'Black Ethnographers' | 4 |
| CRPE-240BR | Intermediate Topics: 'Borderlands Film and Literature' | 4 |
| CRPE-240BX | Intermediate Topics: 'Introduction to Black Sexual Cultures/Sexuality Studies' | 4 |
| CRPE-240EF | Intermediate Topics: 'Ethnographic Food Documentary' | 4 |
| CRPE-240FD | Intermediate Topics: 'U.S. Latinx Foodways' | 4 |
| CRPE-240LC | Intermediate Topics: 'La Cultura Cura: Healing Through Language and Culture' | 4 |
| CRPE-240LF | Intermediate Topics: 'Latinas in Film' | 4 |
| CRPE-240RE | Intermediate Topics: 'Representing Race' | 4 |
| CRPE-244 | The Historical-Grammar of Black Feminist Thought Across the Caribbean and the Americas | 4 |
| CRPE-254 | Nueva York | 4 |
| CRPE-256 | Trap Doors and Glittering Closets: Queer/Trans* of Color Politics of Recognition, Legibility, Visibility and Aesthetics | 4 |
| CRPE-257 | Transforming Justice and Practicing Truth to Power: Critical Methodologies and Methods in Community Participatory Action Research and Accountability | 4 |
| CRPE-261 | Race, Racism, and Power | 4 |
| CRPE-308 | Luminous Darkness: African American Social Thought After DuBois | 4 |
| CRPE-323 | Latina Feminism(s) | 4 |
| CRPE-339 | Abolitionist Dreams and Everyday Resistance: Freedom Memoirs, Struggles, and Decolonizing Justice | 4 |
| CRPE-362 | Facilitating for Racial Change | 4 |
| CRPE-363 | A Social Movements' History of the States from Grassroots Organizing to Social Movements | 4 |
| CRPE-366 | Disposable People: A History of Deportation | 4 |
| CRPE-367 | Slavery, Prison, and Captivity: Narratives of Life In and Out of Bondage | 4 |
| CRPE-371 | Free Them All: Abolition Feminism and Anticarceral Action Research | 4 |
| CRPE-372 | Transforming Harm and Mutual Aid: A Transformative Justice Lab | 4 |
| CRPE-373 | Abolition and Radical Textiles | 4 |
| CRPE-374 | Latinx Immigration | 4 |
| CRPE-392 | Senior Seminar | 4 |
| Dance | ||
| DANCE-132 | Introduction to Hip Hop | 2 |
| DANCE-133 | Introduction to Breakin' | 2 |
| DANCE-142 | Introduction to West African Dance | 2 |
| DANCE-232 | Intermediate Hip Hop | 2 |
| DANCE-234 | House Dance | 2 |
| DANCE-269 | Performance Beyond Movement: Dance and Storytelling | 2 |
| DANCE-272FD | Dance and Culture: 'Funk Styles' | 4 |
| Economics | ||
| ECON-210 | Marxian Economic Theory | 4 |
| ECON-306 | Political Economy of Inequality | 4 |
| ECON-349EC | Advanced Topics in Economics: 'Analysis of Empire of Cotton' | 4 |
| English | ||
| ENGL-217LX | Topics in English: 'Latinx Literature in the U.S. and Beyond' | 4 |
| ENGL-217SA | Topics in English: 'South African Literature: Postapartheid and Beyond' | 4 |
| ENGL-240 | Early American Narratives and Counternarratives | 4 |
| ENGL-254EN | Topics in African American Literature: 'The Theory of the Early African American Novel' | 4 |
| ENGL-257 | Survey of African American Literature | 4 |
| ENGL-274 | Introduction to Asian American Literature | 4 |
| ENGL-280 | Literary and Cultural Theory | 4 |
| ENGL-334BG | Asian American Film and Visual Culture: 'Beyond Geishas and Kung Fu Masters' | 4 |
| ENGL-338 | Aesthetics of Racial Capitalism | 4 |
| ENGL-350AB | Topics in African American Literature: 'Abolition and Climate Change' | 4 |
| ENGL-350AT | Topics in African American Literature: 'Race and the Aesthetics of Taste' | 4 |
| ENGL-368 | Shapeshifting Through the Nineteenth Century and Beyond | 4 |
| ENGL-382AN | Advanced Topics in English: 'American Animality' | 4 |
| ENGL-382EQ | Advanced Topics in English: 'Equiano's Worlds: Global Abolition, Alt Humanisms, and Experimental Prose' | 4 |
| ENGL-382MX | Advanced Topics in English: 'I Would Prefer Not To: Marxism and Early American Literature' | 4 |
| ENGL-389 | Revolution and Change in the Age of Necropolitics | 4 |
| Environmental Studies | ||
| ENVST-150DV | Introductory Topics in Environmental Studies: 'Introduction to the Histories and Theories of Development' | 4 |
| ENVST-210 | Political Ecology | 4 |
| ENVST-314 | China in the Global South | 4 |
| ENVST-321CP | Conference Courses in Environmental Studies: 'Political Economy of the Environment: Capitalism and Climate Change' | 4 |
| ENVST-331 | Water, People, and Politics in the Anthropocene | 4 |
| Film Media Theater | ||
| FMT-240PE | Intermediate Courses in Production and Practice: 'African Performance Aesthetics' | 4 |
| FMT-330AT | Advanced Courses in History and Theory: 'African Theater' | 4 |
| FMT-330BG | Advanced Courses in History and Theory: 'Beyond Geishas and Kung Fu Masters' | 4 |
| FMT-330PA | Advanced Courses in History and Theory: 'Natural's Not in It: Pedro Almodóvar' | 4 |
| FMT-330RR | Advanced Courses in History and Theory: 'Anti-Fascism in Film: Reel Revolutions' | 4 |
| French | ||
| FREN-219 | Intermediate Level Courses in Culture and Literature: Introduction to the French-Speaking World | 4 |
| FREN-341NE | Courses in Francophone Studies: 'Revisiting the Negritude Movement: Origins, Evolution, and Relevance' | 4 |
| Geography | ||
| GEOG-206 | Political Geography | 4 |
| Gender Studies | ||
| GNDST-122 | Who Makes Your Clothes? Gender and Labor in the Global Apparel Industry | 4 |
| GNDST-123 | Gender and Empire | 4 |
| GNDST-204BX | Women and Gender in the Study of Culture: 'Introduction to Black Sexual Cultures/Sexuality Studies' | 4 |
| GNDST-204TJ | Women and Gender in the Study of Culture: 'Transforming Justice and Practicing Truth to Power: Critical Methodologies and Methods in Community Participatory Action Research and Accountability' | 4 |
| GNDST-206BF | Women and Gender in History: 'The Historical-Grammar of Black Feminist Thought Across the Caribbean and the Americas' | 4 |
| GNDST-206US | Women and Gender in the Study of History: 'U.S. Women's History since 1890' | 4 |
| GNDST-210SL | Women and Gender in Philosophy and Religion: 'Women and Gender in Islam' | 4 |
| GNDST-210WR | Women and Gender in Philosophy and Religion: 'Womanist Religious Thought' | 4 |
| GNDST-212EC | Women and Gender in Social Sciences: 'Gender and Labor in the Global Economy' | 4 |
| GNDST-212RC | Women and Gender in Social Sciences: 'Gender, Race, and Capitalism' | 4 |
| GNDST-241PH | Women and Gender in Science: 'Pharmocracy: Empire by Molecular Means' | 4 |
| GNDST-241RA | Women and Gender in Science: 'Rethinking Aids' | 4 |
| GNDST-333EC | Advanced Seminar: 'Gender Inequality and Economic Development: Challenges, Contradictions, and Contestations' | 4 |
| GNDST-333EM | Advanced Seminar: 'Flesh and Blood: Naturecultural Embodiments' | 4 |
| GNDST-333ER | Advanced Seminar: 'Theorizing Eros' | 4 |
| GNDST-333MS | Advanced Seminar: 'Multi-Species Justice? Entangled Lives and Human Power' | 4 |
| GNDST-333PA | Advanced Seminar: 'Natural's Not in It: Pedro Almodóvar' | 4 |
| GNDST-333SE | Advanced Seminar: 'Black Sexual Economies' | 4 |
| GNDST-333TH | Advanced Seminar: 'Transforming Harm and Mutual Aid: A Transformative Justice Lab' | 4 |
| GNDST-333TX | Advanced Seminar: 'Abolition and Radical Textiles' | 4 |
| GNDST-392 | Senior Seminar | 4 |
| German Studies | ||
| GRMST-205 | Decentering Europe: An Introduction to Critical European Studies | 4 |
| GRMST-231YN | Topics in German and European Studies in a Global Context: 'Yiddish Nation: Language as Homeland' | 4 |
| History | ||
| HIST-141 | Introduction to Modern African History | 4 |
| HIST-142 | Introduction to Pre Colonial African History | 4 |
| HIST-213 | History of Turtle Island: Introduction to Native North America | 4 |
| HIST-245EU | Topics in African History: 'European Expansion in Africa' | 4 |
| HIST-245MW | Topics in African History: 'Modern West Africa, 1800 to the Present' | 4 |
| HIST-245SV | Topics in African History: 'Slavery and Emancipation in Africa' | 4 |
| HIST-255DE | Ideas and Society in Europe: 'Decentering Europe: An Introduction to Critical European Studies' | 4 |
| HIST-276 | U.S. Women's History Since 1890 | 4 |
| HIST-277 | History of Energy | 4 |
| HIST-279 | Modern Civil Rights Movement | 4 |
| HIST-282 | African American History from Emancipation to the Present | 4 |
| HIST-357 | History of British Capitalism | 4 |
| HIST-381BE | Recent American History: 'Black Labor Since Emancipation' | 4 |
| Jewish Studies | ||
| JWST-269 | Citizens and Subjects: Jews in the Modern World | 4 |
| Latin American Studies | ||
| LATAM-287DE | Topics in Latin American Studies: 'Decolonizing Development' | 4 |
| LATAM-287FM | Topics in Latin American Studies: 'Frames of Mind: Tracking Power/Knowledge' | 4 |
| Music | ||
| MUSIC-161 | Beginning West African Drumming Ensemble | 1 |
| MUSIC-226 | World Music | 4 |
| MUSIC-228 | African Opera in Theory and Practice | 4 |
| MUSIC-238 | The Power of Black Music | 4 |
| MUSIC-261 | Intermediate West African Drumming Ensemble | 1 |
| Politics | ||
| POLIT-252 | Urban Politics | 4 |
| POLIT-334 | Black American Political Thought | 4 |
| POLIT-355 | Race and Housing | 4 |
| POLIT-387PD | Advanced Topics in Politics: 'Other Political Dreams' | 4 |
| Psychology | ||
| PSYCH-213 | Psychology of Racism | 4 |
| Religion | ||
| RELIG-181 | Introduction to African Diaspora Religions | 4 |
| RELIG-207 | Women and Gender in Islam | 4 |
| RELIG-209 | Disability and Religion | 4 |
| RELIG-225NR | Topics in Religion: 'Reimagining American Religious History: Race, Gender, and Alterity' | 4 |
| RELIG-246 | Womanist Religious Thought | 4 |
| RELIG-248 | Islam in America: From Slavery to the "Muslim Ban | 4 |
| RELIG-267 | Buddhist Ethics | 4 |
| RELIG-269 | Citizens and Subjects: Jews in the Modern World | 4 |
| RELIG-331AF | Advanced Topics in Religion: 'African American Spiritualities of Dissent' | 4 |
| RELIG-352 | Body and Gender in Religious Traditions | 4 |
| RELIG-361 | The Aquatic Life of Black Devotion | 4 |
| Sociology | ||
| SOCI-214 | Race in America: Inequality, Immigration, and Other Issues | 4 |
| SOCI-216DR | Special Topics in Sociology: 'Dialoguing for Racial Change' | 4 |
| SOCI-316RM | Special Topics in Sociology: 'Consumer Culture: Race in the Marketplace' | 4 |
| SOCI-362 | Facilitating for Racial Change | 4 |
| Spanish | ||
| SPAN-230AN | Identities & Intersections: An Introduction: 'Animal Stories' | 4 |
| SPAN-230HY | Identities & Intersections: An Introduction: 'Hybrid Identities of the Spanish-Speaking World' | 4 |
| SPAN-250AT | Concepts and Practices of Power: 'The Agency of Things: Material Culture of Latin America, Spain, and the U.S. Border' | 4 |
| SPAN-340PA | Advanced Studies in Visual Cultures: 'Natural's Not in It: Pedro Almodóvar' | 4 |
| SPAN-340RR | Advanced Studies in Visual Cultures: 'Anti-Fascism in Film: Reel Revolutions' | 4 |
Africana Studies Major Pathway/Minor
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropology | ||
| ANTHR-216BE | Special Topics in Anthropology: 'Black Ethnographers' | 4 |
| ANTHR-216RC | Special Topics in Anthropology: 'Representing Race' | 4 |
| Critical Race & Political Econ | ||
| CRPE-200 | Foundations of Africana Studies | 4 |
| CRPE-208 | Introduction to Twentieth-Century Critical Race Theory | 4 |
| CRPE-240BE | Intermediate Topics: 'Black Ethnographers' | 4 |
| CRPE-240LF | Intermediate Topics: 'Latinas in Film' | 4 |
| CRPE-240RE | Intermediate Topics: 'Representing Race' | 4 |
| CRPE-244 | The Historical-Grammar of Black Feminist Thought Across the Caribbean and the Americas | 4 |
| CRPE-308 | Luminous Darkness: African American Social Thought After DuBois | 4 |
| CRPE-362 | Facilitating for Racial Change | 4 |
| CRPE-363 | A Social Movements' History of the States from Grassroots Organizing to Social Movements | 4 |
| CRPE-367 | Slavery, Prison, and Captivity: Narratives of Life In and Out of Bondage | 4 |
| Dance | ||
| DANCE-132 | Introduction to Hip Hop | 2 |
| DANCE-133 | Introduction to Breakin' | 2 |
| DANCE-142 | Introduction to West African Dance | 2 |
| DANCE-232 | Intermediate Hip Hop | 2 |
| DANCE-234 | House Dance | 2 |
| DANCE-269 | Performance Beyond Movement: Dance and Storytelling | 2 |
| DANCE-272FD | Dance and Culture: 'Funk Styles' | 4 |
| Economics | ||
| ECON-306 | Political Economy of Inequality | 4 |
| ECON-349EC | Advanced Topics in Economics: 'Analysis of Empire of Cotton' | 4 |
| English | ||
| ENGL-217SA | Topics in English: 'South African Literature: Postapartheid and Beyond' | 4 |
| ENGL-254EN | Topics in African American Literature: 'The Theory of the Early African American Novel' | 4 |
| ENGL-257 | Survey of African American Literature | 4 |
| ENGL-350AB | Topics in African American Literature: 'Abolition and Climate Change' | 4 |
| ENGL-350AT | Topics in African American Literature: 'Race and the Aesthetics of Taste' | 4 |
| ENGL-382EQ | Advanced Topics in English: 'Equiano's Worlds: Global Abolition, Alt Humanisms, and Experimental Prose' | 4 |
| Environmental Studies | ||
| ENVST-210 | Political Ecology | 4 |
| ENVST-314 | China in the Global South | 4 |
| Film Media Theater | ||
| FMT-240PE | Intermediate Courses in Production and Practice: 'African Performance Aesthetics' | 4 |
| FMT-330AT | Advanced Courses in History and Theory: 'African Theater' | 4 |
| French | ||
| FREN-219 | Intermediate Level Courses in Culture and Literature: Introduction to the French-Speaking World | 4 |
| FREN-341NE | Courses in Francophone Studies: 'Revisiting the Negritude Movement: Origins, Evolution, and Relevance' | 4 |
| Gender Studies | ||
| GNDST-206BF | Women and Gender in History: 'The Historical-Grammar of Black Feminist Thought Across the Caribbean and the Americas' | 4 |
| GNDST-210WR | Women and Gender in Philosophy and Religion: 'Womanist Religious Thought' | 4 |
| GNDST-333SE | Advanced Seminar: 'Black Sexual Economies' | 4 |
| History | ||
| HIST-142 | Introduction to Pre Colonial African History | 4 |
| HIST-213 | History of Turtle Island: Introduction to Native North America | 4 |
| HIST-245EU | Topics in African History: 'European Expansion in Africa' | 4 |
| HIST-245MW | Topics in African History: 'Modern West Africa, 1800 to the Present' | 4 |
| HIST-245SV | Topics in African History: 'Slavery and Emancipation in Africa' | 4 |
| HIST-282 | African American History from Emancipation to the Present | 4 |
| HIST-381BE | Recent American History: 'Black Labor Since Emancipation' | 4 |
| Music | ||
| MUSIC-161 | Beginning West African Drumming Ensemble | 1 |
| MUSIC-226 | World Music | 4 |
| MUSIC-228 | African Opera in Theory and Practice | 4 |
| MUSIC-238 | The Power of Black Music | 4 |
| Politics | ||
| POLIT-252 | Urban Politics | 4 |
| POLIT-334 | Black American Political Thought | 4 |
| POLIT-355 | Race and Housing | 4 |
| POLIT-387PD | Advanced Topics in Politics: 'Other Political Dreams' | 4 |
| Religion | ||
| RELIG-181 | Introduction to African Diaspora Religions | 4 |
| RELIG-246 | Womanist Religious Thought | 4 |
| RELIG-331AF | Advanced Topics in Religion: 'African American Spiritualities of Dissent' | 4 |
| RELIG-361 | The Aquatic Life of Black Devotion | 4 |
| Sociology | ||
| SOCI-362 | Facilitating for Racial Change | 4 |
Critical Social Thought Major Pathway
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropology | ||
| ANTHR-342 | Science as Culture | 4 |
| ANTHR-352 | Digital Cultures | 4 |
| Art History | ||
| ARTH-301DG | Topics in Art History: 'Indigenous Futures' | 4 |
| Art Studio | ||
| ARTST-380TX | Advanced Topics in Art Studio: 'Abolition and Radical Textiles' | 4 |
| Critical Race & Political Econ | ||
| CRPE-205 | Foundations in Critical Social Thought | 4 |
| CRPE-208 | Introduction to Twentieth-Century Critical Race Theory | 4 |
| CRPE-228 | Visualizing Immigrant Narratives: Migration in Film | 4 |
| CRPE-239 | Latinx Urbanism | 4 |
| CRPE-240FD | Intermediate Topics: 'U.S. Latinx Foodways' | 4 |
| CRPE-244 | The Historical-Grammar of Black Feminist Thought Across the Caribbean and the Americas | 4 |
| CRPE-254 | Nueva York | 4 |
| CRPE-256 | Trap Doors and Glittering Closets: Queer/Trans* of Color Politics of Recognition, Legibility, Visibility and Aesthetics | 4 |
| CRPE-257 | Transforming Justice and Practicing Truth to Power: Critical Methodologies and Methods in Community Participatory Action Research and Accountability | 4 |
| CRPE-261 | Race, Racism, and Power | 4 |
| CRPE-308 | Luminous Darkness: African American Social Thought After DuBois | 4 |
| CRPE-323 | Latina Feminism(s) | 4 |
| CRPE-339 | Abolitionist Dreams and Everyday Resistance: Freedom Memoirs, Struggles, and Decolonizing Justice | 4 |
| CRPE-362 | Facilitating for Racial Change | 4 |
| CRPE-366 | Disposable People: A History of Deportation | 4 |
| CRPE-371 | Free Them All: Abolition Feminism and Anticarceral Action Research | 4 |
| CRPE-372 | Transforming Harm and Mutual Aid: A Transformative Justice Lab | 4 |
| CRPE-373 | Abolition and Radical Textiles | 4 |
| CRPE-374 | Latinx Immigration | 4 |
| CRPE-392 | Senior Seminar | 4 |
| Economics | ||
| ECON-210 | Marxian Economic Theory | 4 |
| ECON-306 | Political Economy of Inequality | 4 |
| ECON-349EC | Advanced Topics in Economics: 'Analysis of Empire of Cotton' | 4 |
| English | ||
| ENGL-257 | Survey of African American Literature | 4 |
| ENGL-274 | Introduction to Asian American Literature | 4 |
| ENGL-280 | Literary and Cultural Theory | 4 |
| ENGL-325 | Victorian Literature and Visual Culture | 4 |
| ENGL-334BG | Asian American Film and Visual Culture: 'Beyond Geishas and Kung Fu Masters' | 4 |
| ENGL-338 | Aesthetics of Racial Capitalism | 4 |
| ENGL-350AB | Topics in African American Literature: 'Abolition and Climate Change' | 4 |
| ENGL-350AT | Topics in African American Literature: 'Race and the Aesthetics of Taste' | 4 |
| ENGL-368 | Shapeshifting Through the Nineteenth Century and Beyond | 4 |
| ENGL-382AN | Advanced Topics in English: 'American Animality' | 4 |
| ENGL-382MX | Advanced Topics in English: 'I Would Prefer Not To: Marxism and Early American Literature' | 4 |
| ENGL-389 | Revolution and Change in the Age of Necropolitics | 4 |
| Environmental Studies | ||
| ENVST-150DV | Introductory Topics in Environmental Studies: 'Introduction to the Histories and Theories of Development' | 4 |
| ENVST-210 | Political Ecology | 4 |
| ENVST-321CP | Conference Courses in Environmental Studies: 'Political Economy of the Environment: Capitalism and Climate Change' | 4 |
| ENVST-331 | Water, People, and Politics in the Anthropocene | 4 |
| Film Media Theater | ||
| FMT-330PA | Advanced Courses in History and Theory: 'Natural's Not in It: Pedro Almodóvar' | 4 |
| FMT-330RR | Advanced Courses in History and Theory: 'Anti-Fascism in Film: Reel Revolutions' | 4 |
| Geography | ||
| GEOG-206 | Political Geography | 4 |
| Gender Studies | ||
| GNDST-122 | Who Makes Your Clothes? Gender and Labor in the Global Apparel Industry | 4 |
| GNDST-204TJ | Women and Gender in the Study of Culture: 'Transforming Justice and Practicing Truth to Power: Critical Methodologies and Methods in Community Participatory Action Research and Accountability' | 4 |
| GNDST-206BF | Women and Gender in History: 'The Historical-Grammar of Black Feminist Thought Across the Caribbean and the Americas' | 4 |
| GNDST-206US | Women and Gender in the Study of History: 'U.S. Women's History since 1890' | 4 |
| GNDST-210SL | Women and Gender in Philosophy and Religion: 'Women and Gender in Islam' | 4 |
| GNDST-241PH | Women and Gender in Science: 'Pharmocracy: Empire by Molecular Means' | 4 |
| GNDST-241RA | Women and Gender in Science: 'Rethinking Aids' | 4 |
| GNDST-333EC | Advanced Seminar: 'Gender Inequality and Economic Development: Challenges, Contradictions, and Contestations' | 4 |
| GNDST-333EM | Advanced Seminar: 'Flesh and Blood: Naturecultural Embodiments' | 4 |
| GNDST-333ER | Advanced Seminar: 'Theorizing Eros' | 4 |
| GNDST-333MS | Advanced Seminar: 'Multi-Species Justice? Entangled Lives and Human Power' | 4 |
| GNDST-333PA | Advanced Seminar: 'Natural's Not in It: Pedro Almodóvar' | 4 |
| GNDST-333TH | Advanced Seminar: 'Transforming Harm and Mutual Aid: A Transformative Justice Lab' | 4 |
| GNDST-333TX | Advanced Seminar: 'Abolition and Radical Textiles' | 4 |
| GNDST-392 | Senior Seminar | 4 |
| German Studies | ||
| GRMST-205 | Decentering Europe: An Introduction to Critical European Studies | 4 |
| GRMST-231YN | Topics in German and European Studies in a Global Context: 'Yiddish Nation: Language as Homeland' | 4 |
| History | ||
| HIST-141 | Introduction to Modern African History | 4 |
| HIST-276 | U.S. Women's History Since 1890 | 4 |
| HIST-277 | History of Energy | 4 |
| HIST-279 | Modern Civil Rights Movement | 4 |
| HIST-357 | History of British Capitalism | 4 |
| Jewish Studies | ||
| JWST-269 | Citizens and Subjects: Jews in the Modern World | 4 |
| Latin American Studies | ||
| LATAM-287DE | Topics in Latin American Studies: 'Decolonizing Development' | 4 |
| LATAM-287FM | Topics in Latin American Studies: 'Frames of Mind: Tracking Power/Knowledge' | 4 |
| Politics | ||
| POLIT-252 | Urban Politics | 4 |
| POLIT-355 | Race and Housing | 4 |
| POLIT-387PD | Advanced Topics in Politics: 'Other Political Dreams' | 4 |
| Psychology | ||
| PSYCH-213 | Psychology of Racism | 4 |
| Religion | ||
| RELIG-181 | Introduction to African Diaspora Religions | 4 |
| RELIG-207 | Women and Gender in Islam | 4 |
| RELIG-209 | Disability and Religion | 4 |
| RELIG-225NR | Topics in Religion: 'Reimagining American Religious History: Race, Gender, and Alterity' | 4 |
| RELIG-248 | Islam in America: From Slavery to the "Muslim Ban | 4 |
| RELIG-267 | Buddhist Ethics | 4 |
| RELIG-269 | Citizens and Subjects: Jews in the Modern World | 4 |
| RELIG-331AF | Advanced Topics in Religion: 'African American Spiritualities of Dissent' | 4 |
| RELIG-352 | Body and Gender in Religious Traditions | 4 |
| Sociology | ||
| SOCI-214 | Race in America: Inequality, Immigration, and Other Issues | 4 |
| SOCI-316RM | Special Topics in Sociology: 'Consumer Culture: Race in the Marketplace' | 4 |
| SOCI-362 | Facilitating for Racial Change | 4 |
| Spanish | ||
| SPAN-230HY | Identities & Intersections: An Introduction: 'Hybrid Identities of the Spanish-Speaking World' | 4 |
| SPAN-250AT | Concepts and Practices of Power: 'The Agency of Things: Material Culture of Latin America, Spain, and the U.S. Border' | 4 |
| SPAN-340DG | Advanced Studies in Visual Cultures: 'Indigenous Futures' | 4 |
| SPAN-340PA | Advanced Studies in Visual Cultures: 'Natural's Not in It: Pedro Almodóvar' | 4 |
| SPAN-340RR | Advanced Studies in Visual Cultures: 'Anti-Fascism in Film: Reel Revolutions' | 4 |
Latinx Studies Minor
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Critical Race & Political Econ | ||
| CRPE-180 | Introduction to Latinx Studies: Structural Inequalities | 4 |
| CRPE-228 | Visualizing Immigrant Narratives: Migration in Film | 4 |
| CRPE-239 | Latinx Urbanism | 4 |
| CRPE-240BR | Intermediate Topics: 'Borderlands Film and Literature' | 4 |
| CRPE-240FD | Intermediate Topics: 'U.S. Latinx Foodways' | 4 |
| CRPE-240LC | Intermediate Topics: 'La Cultura Cura: Healing Through Language and Culture' | 4 |
| CRPE-254 | Nueva York | 4 |
| CRPE-261 | Race, Racism, and Power | 4 |
| CRPE-323 | Latina Feminism(s) | 4 |
| CRPE-366 | Disposable People: A History of Deportation | 4 |
| CRPE-374 | Latinx Immigration | 4 |
| English | ||
| ENGL-217LX | Topics in English: 'Latinx Literature in the U.S. and Beyond' | 4 |
People, Power, Place
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Anthropology | ||
| ANTHR-216FD | Special Topics in Anthropology: 'Ethnographic Food Documentary' | 4 |
| Critical Race & Political Econ | ||
| CRPE-200 | Foundations of Africana Studies | 4 |
| CRPE-205 | Foundations in Critical Social Thought | 4 |
| CRPE-208 | Introduction to Twentieth-Century Critical Race Theory | 4 |
| CRPE-239 | Latinx Urbanism | 4 |
| CRPE-240FD | Intermediate Topics: 'U.S. Latinx Foodways' | 4 |
| CRPE-244 | The Historical-Grammar of Black Feminist Thought Across the Caribbean and the Americas | 4 |
| CRPE-254 | Nueva York | 4 |
| CRPE-257 | Transforming Justice and Practicing Truth to Power: Critical Methodologies and Methods in Community Participatory Action Research and Accountability | 4 |
| CRPE-261 | Race, Racism, and Power | 4 |
| Gender Studies | ||
| GNDST-204TJ | Women and Gender in the Study of Culture: 'Transforming Justice and Practicing Truth to Power: Critical Methodologies and Methods in Community Participatory Action Research and Accountability' | 4 |
| GNDST-206BF | Women and Gender in History: 'The Historical-Grammar of Black Feminist Thought Across the Caribbean and the Americas' | 4 |
| GNDST-210SL | Women and Gender in Philosophy and Religion: 'Women and Gender in Islam' | 4 |
| GNDST-212EC | Women and Gender in Social Sciences: 'Gender and Labor in the Global Economy' | 4 |
| GNDST-212RC | Women and Gender in Social Sciences: 'Gender, Race, and Capitalism' | 4 |
| History | ||
| HIST-213 | History of Turtle Island: Introduction to Native North America | 4 |
| HIST-245EU | Topics in African History: 'European Expansion in Africa' | 4 |
| HIST-245MW | Topics in African History: 'Modern West Africa, 1800 to the Present' | 4 |
| HIST-245SV | Topics in African History: 'Slavery and Emancipation in Africa' | 4 |
| HIST-282 | African American History from Emancipation to the Present | 4 |
| Politics | ||
| POLIT-252 | Urban Politics | 4 |
| Psychology | ||
| PSYCH-213 | Psychology of Racism | 4 |
| Religion | ||
| RELIG-207 | Women and Gender in Islam | 4 |
| RELIG-246 | Womanist Religious Thought | 4 |
| RELIG-248 | Islam in America: From Slavery to the "Muslim Ban | 4 |
| Sociology | ||
| SOCI-214 | Race in America: Inequality, Immigration, and Other Issues | 4 |
Representation
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Critical Race & Political Econ | ||
| CRPE-228 | Visualizing Immigrant Narratives: Migration in Film | 4 |
| CRPE-240BR | Intermediate Topics: 'Borderlands Film and Literature' | 4 |
| CRPE-240BX | Intermediate Topics: 'Introduction to Black Sexual Cultures/Sexuality Studies' | 4 |
| CRPE-240EF | Intermediate Topics: 'Ethnographic Food Documentary' | 4 |
| CRPE-240LC | Intermediate Topics: 'La Cultura Cura: Healing Through Language and Culture' | 4 |
| CRPE-240RE | Intermediate Topics: 'Representing Race' | 4 |
| CRPE-256 | Trap Doors and Glittering Closets: Queer/Trans* of Color Politics of Recognition, Legibility, Visibility and Aesthetics | 4 |
| Dance | ||
| DANCE-232 | Intermediate Hip Hop | 2 |
| DANCE-234 | House Dance | 2 |
| DANCE-269 | Performance Beyond Movement: Dance and Storytelling | 2 |
| DANCE-272FD | Dance and Culture: 'Funk Styles' | 4 |
| English | ||
| ENGL-240 | Early American Narratives and Counternarratives | 4 |
| ENGL-254EN | Topics in African American Literature: 'The Theory of the Early African American Novel' | 4 |
| ENGL-257 | Survey of African American Literature | 4 |
| ENGL-274 | Introduction to Asian American Literature | 4 |
| Film Media Theater | ||
| FMT-240PE | Intermediate Courses in Production and Practice: 'African Performance Aesthetics' | 4 |
| Gender Studies | ||
| GNDST-204BX | Women and Gender in the Study of Culture: 'Introduction to Black Sexual Cultures/Sexuality Studies' | 4 |
| Music | ||
| MUSIC-228 | African Opera in Theory and Practice | 4 |
| MUSIC-238 | The Power of Black Music | 4 |
| MUSIC-261 | Intermediate West African Drumming Ensemble | 1 |
| Religion | ||
| RELIG-225NR | Topics in Religion: 'Reimagining American Religious History: Race, Gender, and Alterity' | 4 |
Collaboratory
Collaboratories are courses designed to foster in-depth critical studies of race, colonialism, migration, and political economy. The department will offer one collaboratory per year.
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