PH285

Active

Humanities

Block Seminar

Traditional

Letter Grades, S/CR/NC, Audit

CLAI, CPS, EPG

This course explores the nature and politics of race and racism. We will typically consider questions such as, Is there such a thing as ‘race’? What does it mean to say race is ‘biological’? What does it mean to say that race is a ‘social construct’? What is the difference between racial categories and ethnic categories, like ‘Latino’? and What do we owe victims of race-based injustice? We will engage with the work of well-known contemporaryphilosophers of race and important figures from the history of the philosophy of race, such as W.E.B. DuBois, Alain Locke, José Martí, José Vasconcelos, and V.F. Cordova.