SOC 295-01 - Special Topic: American Whitness

4 credits (Spring)

American Whiteness. This course will examine the development and defense of “whiteness” as a racial formation, status position, and performance. To give whiteness a specific content, we will study the historical expansion of the category, the formal and informal advantages that accrue to whiteness, the internal diversity of the category, and the continuous challenges to whiteness, both conceptual and material. The course will make use of history, literature, sociological theories and empirical studies. Students will be required to write several papers and take a midsemester and final exam..

Prerequisite: SOC 111.
Instructor: Erickson