Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: CONTESTED GEOGRAPHIES: RACE, NATION AND DIASPORA

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Examines local and globally mediated formations of ethnic and racial identities. Explores the history of racial categories and focuses on the ways transnational communities are altered through contact with "homelands." Particular attention is given to "Arab-Jewish," "Palestinian," "Black," and "Latino" diasporic communities in Israel/Palestine and the USA.