ETHN 1: Land and Labor

What You Will Learn

By confronting the origins and consequences of settler colonialism and state land management, chattel slavery and coerced labor, immigration flows and globalization, we’ll seek to understand the relationship between the social construction of race and the production of social and economic inequality.

This course pays especially close attention to the ways in which race and ethnicity intersect with gender, sexuality, class, caste citizenship, and nation in order to better understand how systems of power and inequality are constructed, reinforced, and challenged, and to enhance our comprehension of present-day realities in the U.S. and around the globe.