SOCI 184 - Racism and Marxist Struggle

Semester Offered: Spring
1 unit(s)

W.E.B. Du Bois pointed out that the expansion of capitalism and the growth of global racism made the color line the problem of the 20th century. Racist ideologies and discriminatory practices perpetuated by capitalist institutional racism, and racial inequality, combine into all other forms of inequality globally. As racialized spaces globalized through capitalism, so too arose anti-racist struggle against the violence of racism, colonialism and post-colonialist arrangements. Even though the struggle against global racial inequality grew, the color line is now the problem of the 21st century, manifested as vicious inequalities, destruction, war and genocide. This class examines the writings of Karl Marx, W.E.B. DuBois, Franz Fanon, Kwame Nkrumah, Angela Davis, C.L.R James, Jose Carlos Mariátegui, Stuart Hall and others in order to develop critical and analytical approaches to original works on racism and the Marxist anti-racist debate. Ms. Batur.

Open only to freshmen; satisfies the college requirement for a Freshman Writing Seminar.

Two 75-minute periods.