SOCI 451 - Social Thought and the Concept of Race

3 Credits
Three hours per week.

Special attention is paid to sociological, anthropological and related theoretical and methodological approaches and issues developed, and responded to, by African Americans and other diasporan intellectuals. Topics covered may include slavery, indentured servitude, serfdom and other forms of dependent labor; colonialism, segregation, independence, neocolonialism, in-group and out-group relations, and minority and majority group relations; pre-colonial society; emancipation, nationalism, separatism, and social movements; and knowledge connected with the construction of personality formation and development, politics, law, economics, and culture that emanate from the aforementioned situations.

Offered (OFFERED AS NEEDED).