Courses of Study 2015-2016 
    
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Courses of Study 2015-2016 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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GOVT 4805 - [Race & Racism/Law & Society]

(crosslisted) AMST 4800 , ASRC 4805  
(SBA-AS)      
Spring. Next offered 2017-2018. 4 credits.

Permission of instructor required. Strong preference will be given to: graduate students, law students, and undergraduates with previous coursework in the field. Co-meets with AMST 6800 /ASRC 6805 /GOVT 6805 .

A.M. Smith.

A seminar that examines contemporary dilemmas in the construction of race and ethnicity in law, and the racialized construction of social problems and governmentality. We will examine classics in the field and new works, including those by Gerald Torres and Lani Guinier, Dorothy Roberts, Michelle Alexander, Jack Balkin, Derrick Bell, Osagie Obasojie, and the famous legal studies anthologies on critical race theory and law and society edited by Richard Delgado and Jean Stenfancic; and Kimberlé Crenshaw, Neil Gotanda, Gary Peller, and Kendall Thomas. The issues that we will explore include: mass incarceration; the history and meaning of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment; the social construction of race and ethnicity; the intractable character and historicity of white domination; and the history of black “cause lawyering.”  Strong preference will be given to graduate students, law students, and undergraduates with previous coursework in the field.



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