FYS 1077 - Our Voices: Race and Ethnicity in America

Hours: 3
Explores the experience, analysis, and critique of race in America from its founding to the present, while also examining institutional racism as a force that has shaped the nation, as well as the countermovements undertaken to reshape racial narratives and enact social and racial progress. We will read Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me for its analysis of whiteness in America; Toni Morrison’s new book The Source of Self-Regard on what it means to be a person of African descent in the US; excerpts from Ibram X. Kendi’s Stamped from the Beginning and Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the US for historical context on indigenous and enslaved people in America; and other selected readings and films. We’ll ask how institutions of higher learning position us to think about race and racial injustice.

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FYS 1077 - Our Voices: Race and Ethnicity in America