Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/University of Ontario Institute of Technology/Critical Race Theory (Winter 2015)/Course description

This course explores the growing field of critical race theory--which is especially relevant in 2015 amid current debates over racialized and marginalized populations in North American and the world. As such, this class begins by examining the historical and theoretical construction of race by exploring the ways in which race has acted as an organizing principle for societies now and in the past, and has ultimately contributed to systemic inequality and multiple, interlocking oppressions. It moves to look at the contemporary role of race in organizing social, legal, political, and economic outcomes from a critical perspective. As a result of its connections to feminist theory, critical legal theory, and postmodern theory, this course will also touch on the ways in which CRT has contributed to a materialist analysis of racism in everyday social structures and also ask what, if any, subaltern studies can contribute to an understanding of everyday forms of resistance and also mass protest. In addition to this, students in this course will consider their own position living in a complex world where race organizes social power among people whose identities are simultaneously constructed through other categories of analysis, for example: gender, class, age, language, religion, and sexual identity.

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