Description: Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Enforced requisite: English Composition 3 or 3H. Introduction to academic study of race and ethnicity, with primary focus on literature. Through examination of institutions that form understanding of race -- citizenship, nationalism, class, gender, and labor -- interrogation of how we come to think of ourselves and others as having race, and effects of such racialized thinking. Course is not about any particular racial or ethnic group, but highlights creation of ethnic categories and their effects on cultural production. P/NP or letter grading.

Units: 5.0