AASP499B

Sociocultural Inequities Bearing on Blackness details how Social and Cultural Inequities, Empiricism, and Geopolitics of America constructed the Black and White racial paradigm, their communities, and their demographic characteristics. Considering the growing diversity, uncertainty, and polarization in America, this course undertakes a deep analysis beyond the overt prejudices, biases, and stereotypes widely shared about Black and White relations to discuss emerging theories and attitudes about race, gender, ethnicity, and class inequality that are discounted and disregarded in the microaggressions, subtleties, and nuances in which we are all complicit in our day-to-day interactions. Through collective discussions, readings, individual research, experiential events, and short lectures, this course offers students opportunities to learn about and understand the interpersonal and sociocultural dynamics associated with Blackness and the constraints of authority imposed by Whiteness in dyadic, group, organizational, societal, and national affairs, and settings.