Winter Term 2019 Race and Religion - 1978 - RLST 381 |
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Prerequisites/Notes: Sophomore standing Catalog Description : This course examines how religious cultures and discourses contributed to the emergence of the concept of race, racial classification, and processes of 'racialization'; how biblical interpretation both justified and contested the transatlantic slave trade; and how anti-Black racism relates to anti-Semitism. The course examines the history of doctrines on indigenous peoples, race science, and exploitation, and the dynamics of race and ethnicity in Israel and Palestine. Lecture/discussion with final paper. PREREQUISITES: Sophomore standing Attributes: Cross-Listed Course, GER Humanities Div, 200-399 Foundation/Gateway Crs
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