In this course, we will consider the intersections of race, gender and class and how they are experienced in, and how they shape institutions, such as the labor market, social welfare system, schools, and the criminal justice system, for example. We will read ethnographies to examine the politics of race, class and gender in the United States.
The class will be entirely discussion-based. We will conclude by employing the concepts from the course to examine our own lives through the lens of the institutional structures studied (work/economy, education, family and friendship networks, criminal justice system). This will constitute the core of the final essay for the course.
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