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CRES 188S - 01   Topics in Settler Colonial Critique

2022 Summer Quarter

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Career
Undergraduate
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Class Number
71334
Type
Lecture
Instruction Mode
Synchronous Online
Credits
5 units
General Education
ER
Status
Open
Available Seats
15
Enrollment Capacity
25
Enrolled
10
Wait List Capacity
0
Wait List Total
0

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Focuses on a particular topic in settler and colonial studies. Topics vary with each offering but might include examining the intersections of race and racism through a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, intellectual histories, and political movements as they relate to empire, racial capitalization, colonial occupation and dispossession, mass incarceration and concepts of property and accumulation. May be repeated for credit.

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From the Instructor: Focuses on a particular topic in settler and colonial studies. Topics vary with each offering but might include examining the intersections of race and racism through a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, intellectual histories, and political movements as they relate to empire, racial capitalization, colonial occupation and dispossession, mass incarceration and concepts of property and accumulation. The concept of settler colonialism has become increasingly central to common sense understandings of North American history, political economy, and race. As more and more academics, activist circles, NGOs, and even state officials identify relations between groups of ?settlers? and ?natives? as determinative dynamics in our society, we must unpack the analytical and explanatory force of the key concepts of settler colonialism. One of the central questions for our class will therefore be, how and why have these concepts become so popular, and to what ends? By engaging a diverse set of historical and geographical examples, we will seek to understand the predominance of theories of settler colonialism and to nuance them. From the American South and West Coast to Australia, Hawai?i, Korea, and Palestine, we will consider how theories of settler colonialism inform our understanding of each of these unique contexts. We will also read non- academic texts to consider how settler colonialism as a political framework supports or hinders solidaristic, anti-colonial political work. In particular, we will ask how transnational conditions for migration, labor, and dispossession and displacement complicate binaristic notions of ?settler? and ?native.? By comparing the political economic conditions in distinct geographical contexts, we will deepen our local and global analysis of race. In so doing, we will strive towards a decolonial theory and politics that encompasses settler colonialism and other structural dynamics that determine the operation of race in our local and international milieu.

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Days & Times Room Instructor Meeting Dates
TuTh 09:00AM-12:30PM Remote Instruction Komori,J. 06/20/22 - 07/22/22
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