SOC2051 — Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
SOC 2051 - Sociology of Race and Ethnicity SOC 2051 - Sociology of Race and Ethnicity Hours/Week: Lecture 3 Lab 0 Internship hours per week 0 Course Description: This course introduces students to the complexity of diverse racial/ethnic groups in the United States. It focuses on the historical development of the concept of race and the ways race is structured in a variety of social institutions. It also addresses contemporary issues of racial formation, individual prejudice and discrimination, institutional racism and discrimination, racial/ethnic identity and collective resistance, and white privilege. This course meets the requirements for Elective B: Social Inequality and Stratification for the MN State Sociology Transfer Pathway AA degree. MnTC Goals Goal 5, Goal 7B S. immigration Scientific constructions of race and ethnicity Overview of Assimilation in America Race as a social construct Racial/ethnic prejudice and discrimination Whiteness, white privilege, and the rise of dominant Anglo-American society Racialization of African Americans, Native Americans, Latino/a Americans, and Asian Americans Civil rights movements and collective resistance around race/ethnicity Race in the criminal justice system Racial/ethnic inequalities in social institutions Intersections of race and ethnicity with other axes of inequality Learning
Prerequisites: ENGL1020, ENGL1021