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HON 435 - Race Matters

Prerequisite, acceptance to the University Honors Program. This course will begin with an examination of the racial narcissism of the ideology of white supremacy and its effects on black life in the US. It will then analyze how this ideology has informed and continues to inform US customs, institutions, and practices. This will be followed by examinations of responses to institutional racism. Throughout the course participants will (1) engage local activists and local activist organizations intent on exposing and uprooting institutional racism and (2) update or rewrite the Bulletin “Institutional Racism in Society: A Primer” and the book Institutional Racism in America. Letter grade. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits