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Naomi D Murakawa
POL S 570
Seattle Campus
Explores the mutually constitutive relationship between race and American political institutions, beginning with theories of race and racial constructions, race-making and nation-making, racial triangulation, and intersectionality. Examines various institutions and public policies as manifestations of the American racial state, focusing on the epistemological challenges of identifying race, racism, and racialization.
Class description
Description: Explores when and how racial interests and raced histories contribute to the making of American institutions, and how American institutions re-create, exploit, and even subvert racial hierarchy. Begins with theoretical accounts of race, giving particular attention to racial construction, intra-national racial triangulation, and race’s intersection with other forms of hierarchy. Examines various American political institutions as "race-making" institutions, focusing on political parties, the welfare state, immigration regulation, and the criminal justice state.
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