AM 331:  Critical Whiteness in the U.S.

Joshua C. Woodfork, TLC 305A, x5027

An interdisciplinary examination of whiteness in U.S. culture and history. explores the racial construction of whiteness, focusing on its changing legal, political, aesthetic and cultural definitions over four centuries of American experience, with special emphasis on the concept of whiteness in contemporary ethnographic studies, memoirs and essays.  Students will examine the relationship between whiteness and other components of identity.  The nature of white privilege and the conditions of access to whiteness will be investigated.

SPRING 2010 Syllabus (coming in January)