Prerequisites: graduate standing or consent of instructor

Description: Explores how race and gender are produced and institutionalized in U.S. social arrangements, emphasizing the social construction of race and gender in science, culture, and the law. Surveys a collection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century scientific and legal texts alongside feminist of color writings that analyze the relationship between knowledge, empowerment, and social justice.

Credit: May be taken Satisfactory (S) or No Credit (NC) with consent of instructor and graduate advisor.