ANTH 398 - Race and Immigration

This course explores immigration through the lens of critical race theory and social phenomenology. Drawing on historical and contemporary case studies from the United States, Brazil, Britain, France, Germany, and Australia, the course considers subjective experience, structural conditions, and political contests around immigration. The course focuses on issues of embodied labor, identity formation, and particularly the ways in which immigrants incorporate themselves into and/or are excluded from processes of nation formation and imagination. In this respect, the course interrogates the racial boundaries of contemporary citizenship and the limits of liberal ideologies of multiculturalism. To gloss W.E.B. Du Bois, how does it feel for immigrants to be a problem?

Unit(s): 1
Group Distribution Requirement(s): Distribution Group II
Prerequisite(s): For anthropology credit: ANTH 201 or ANTH 211.
Instructional Method: Conference
Grading Mode: Letter grading (A-F)
Cross-listing(s): CRES 300
Group Distribution Learning Outcome(s):

Evaluate data and/or sources.
Analyze institutions, formations, languages, structures, or processes, whether social, political, religious, economic, cultural, intellectual or other.
Think in sophisticated ways about causation, social and/or historical change, human cognition, or the relationship between individuals and society, or engage with social, political, religious or economic theory in other areas.