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Philosophy & Race

Race, Ethnicity, and Migration Studies CC

Course Subject Code

RM

Course Number

285

Course Long Title

Philosophy & Race

Status

Active

Unit(s)

1

Schedule Type

Block Seminar

Instruction Mode

Traditional

Grade Modes

Letter Grades, S/CR/NC, Audit

Course Attributes

CLAI, CPS, EPG

Course Description

Race is a social construct that invites a number of philosophical questions, such as those of identity, inter-subjectivity, justice, rationality, and culturally different ways of knowing. The course will examine, among others, philosophical reflections on race by the following thinkers: Douglass, West, Fanon, Vasconcelos, Appiah, Bernsaconi, Outlaw, Levinas, Mendieta.