Instructor: Dr. Yao Xiao
Critical theories of racial and cultural difference. Initial formulations of theses against scientific racism and their later transformation by historical, social, and global-historical accounts of racial subjugation.
Term 2
Description:
“My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. … What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say?” Forty-eight years after Audre Lorde spoke truth to power, this course is meant to continue and contribute modestly to critical, careful, and complex dialogues on race, racism, and racial injustice. What is Racial Contract? Why should we revisit Critical Race Theory? How is Anti-Racism relevant to you? How to unlearn Orientalism? Whose voices and struggles are unsettling Racial Capitalism? Together as co-learners, we will mobilize multidisciplinary perspectives, multimedia resources, and semi-structured dialogues to ask, discuss, and answer some of these questions through five modules of learning. A key goal of this course is to develop a critical vocabulary to analyze the racialized realities of our societies, our communities, and ourselves, while cultivating sensitivities, skills, and relations for racial justice.