This course will address the history, theory, experience and representation of race and racialization in Canada, using both critical and creative methods. Students will also gain a critical understanding of how racialized communities resist racism. Specific topics may include social construction, phenotyping, power, privilege, intersectionality, Indigeneity, Blackness, Asianness, whiteness, decolonization, diaspora, relationality, anti-racism, solidarity, allyship, and coalitions. Issues addressed include Indigeneity and nation to nation relations, evolving formations of identity, belonging, and citizenship, and intersections of sexuality, gender, race, ethnicity, and faith. Theoretical concepts introduced include settler colonialism and decolonization, immigration and diaspora, nationalism and multiculturalism, memory and reclamation, activism and resistance. The course is interdisciplinary in its approach and addresses globalization from a wide range of perspectives, including mobility, trade, urbanization, health, religion, environmental change, technology, communications, and the arts.
This course will address the history, theory, experience and representation of race and racialization in Canada, using both critical and creative methods. Students will also gain a critical understanding of how racialized communities resist racism. Specific topics may include social construction, phenotyping, power, privilege, intersectionality, Indigeneity, Blackness, Asianness, whiteness, decolonization, diaspora, relationality, anti-racism, solidarity, allyship, and coalitions. Issues addressed include Indigeneity and nation to nation relations, evolving formations of identity, belonging, and citizenship, and intersections of sexuality, gender, race, ethnicity, and faith. Theoretical concepts introduced include settler colonialism and decolonization, immigration and diaspora, nationalism and multiculturalism, memory and reclamation, activism and resistance. The course is interdisciplinary in its approach and addresses globalization from a wide range of perspectives, including mobility, trade, urbanization, health, religion, environmental change, technology, communications, and the arts.
