Examines various theoretical and conceptual approaches to the study of race and ethnicity. Attention is given to the various ways race and ethnicity have been defined and understood including the ethnicity paradigm, class-based perspectives, and racial formation theory. Examines debates and controversies in the study of race and ethnicity as well as emergent themes and recent developments in the scholarship. Possible topics include a focus on the interrelations among race and other axes of difference such as gender, class, and sexuality, race and the structuring of space, the legal construction of race, race and media culture, and race and the prison-industrial complex. Meets the Critical Perspectives: Social Inequality requirement.

Prerequisite: Feminist & Gender Studies 110 or Race, Ethnicity, and Migration 185.

Degree requirement — Critical Perspectives: S

1 unit — Tabares

Offerings

Term	Block	Title	Instructor	Location	Student Limit/Available	Updated
Spring 2025	Block 7	Theories of Race and Ethnicity	Leland Tabares	TBA	25 / 25	11/21/2024