CSP
20 Race, Gender, Culture: Re-Imagining "Justice" in the U.S.:
This course will examine ways that race, gender, and culture shape perspectives
on justice in the U.S. Rather than considering these concepts as unchanging
aspects of personal identities, we will consider the complexity of intersecting
social categories (race, culture, gender, sexuality, and class) that challenge
assumptions about both individualism and sameness within any group. By
reading works in literature, law, and theory, we will explore multiple
strategies of resistance and social change that develop from analyses of
these factors of social experience. While race, gender, sexuality, class
and culture will be critically analyzed as categories of experience for
all people, the course will pay particular attention to voices often marginalized
as "other" in the context of U.S. discourses on justice.