Semester:
Fall
Offered:
2023
Professor: Eleanor Craig
T - 12:00pm to 2:45pm
This is a "Theories and Methods" course meant to provide groundwork for relational and critical approaches to ethnic studies. It understands race and ethnicity as ongoingly formed in dynamic socio-cultural, economic, and political processes and as inextricable from gender, sexuality, class, and Indigeneity. Sylvia Wynter calls academics "grammarians of the social order” and argues that universities bear particular responsibility for the existence and power of racial concepts. We will analyze how race and ethnicity operate in academic disciplines to shape the questions we ask, the data we use to construct knowledge, and the genres of work that count as ‘academic.’ We will strive to understand why and how ethnic studies scholars engage, critique, and transform received methodologies. This course will provide frameworks for identifying power-based assumptions underlying academic norms and disciplinary formations, and equip students with rigorous tools for interdisciplinary inquiry.
T - 12:00pm to 2:45pm
This is a "Theories and Methods" course meant to provide groundwork for relational and critical approaches to ethnic studies. It understands race and ethnicity as ongoingly formed in dynamic socio-cultural, economic, and political processes and as inextricable from gender, sexuality, class, and Indigeneity. Sylvia Wynter calls academics "grammarians of the social order” and argues that universities bear particular responsibility for the existence and power of racial concepts. We will analyze how race and ethnicity operate in academic disciplines to shape the questions we ask, the data we use to construct knowledge, and the genres of work that count as ‘academic.’ We will strive to understand why and how ethnic studies scholars engage, critique, and transform received methodologies. This course will provide frameworks for identifying power-based assumptions underlying academic norms and disciplinary formations, and equip students with rigorous tools for interdisciplinary inquiry.