Surveys the philosophical contribution to studies of race including intellectual history, philosophy of science, racism and its remedies, media studies, and cultural criticism with a focus on the US.
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In this course, we will explore how various philosophers (and philosophically adjacent scholars) have taken up questions of race and racism with a focus on the US. The readings for this course have been chosen based on the idea that we are currently living through the United States’ third “racial reckoning” (where Reconstruction is understood as the first and the Civil Rights Era as the second). The focus will therefore be primarily on anti-Black racism and resistance, rather than race and racism more broadly conceived, though students are welcome to take up questions beyond the “black-white binary” in their individual research. I hope that this class will help students to consider and analyze the current moment, which we might expect to be described in the future as the Black Lives Matter Era.
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