PG 346

Students explore the concepts of citizenship and personhood in the American political imagination as filtered through a racial valence. Perhaps what is most striking about this valence is the way that it and Americans' conceptions of whiteness, citizenship, and personhood has evolved through America's history. Students will consider what role such images play in constructing a "shared" political community, and to what extent the exclusions they engender strengthen or undermine this community.

Offered occasionally.

CO24 - KN (Knowledge, Identity, and Power), CO24 - SOCSCI (Social Sci and Historical), CORE - KN (Knowledge, Identity, and Power), INTD - AFAM (African American Studies AFAM), INTD - EDUC (Education Studies Minor EDUC), INTD - HUM-EMPIRE (Intd Humanities-Empire IHE), INTD - LS (Latina/o Studies Minor LS), INTD - SP-LTS (Span-Latina/o Study Major SPAN)