PHL 115 - Philosophy of Race

Course unit(s): 1
Meets GAR (students beginning prior to Fall 2024): Meets general academic requirement HU and DE.
Meets Explore Core requirement (students beginning Fall 2024 and later): MV and RP
In this course, we will explore the philosophical assumptions behind the concept of race, its entanglement with identity, and the political consequences of racialization. Students will examine how race/raza developed within colonial anthropology and expanded into both biological and social formulations. Because concepts of race vary across cultures, we will draw from readings across historical, contemporary, and possible future racial categories.