This course will examine Black Lives Matter as a social movement while focusing on the role of antiblack racism, structural inequality, and identity in American politics. We will investigate the language used to discuss race and make important distinctions between concepts like racism, prejudice, and anti-Blackness. This course will expose students to competing theoretical frameworks used to understand race, privilege, and difference. Additionally, this course will focus on protest politics, political activism, the prison industrial complex, and state-sanctioned violence against people of color. To study these subjects we will rely on academic literature from Africana Studies, History, Political Science, Sociology, and other fields.
| Distribution Area | Prerequisites | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Social Science- or -Privilege, Power And Diversity | 1 course |