AFR 211
Race and the Environment
Fall 2014
Division II
Exploring Diversity Initiative
Cross-listed
SOC 211 / AMST 211 / ENVI 211
This is not the current course catalog
Class Details
In contemporary societies, race remains an enduring impediment to the achievement of equality. Generally understood as a socially meaningful way of classifying human bodies hierarchically, race manifests itself in a number of arenas, including personal experience, economic production and distribution, and political organization. In this course, we will explore how race emerges in local and global environmental issues, like pollution and climate change. We will begin with a review of some of the landmark texts in Environmental Studies that address “environmental racism,” like Robert Bullard’s Dumping in Dixie and David Pellow’s Garbage Wars. We will examine how and to what extent polluting facilities like landfills, oil refineries, and sewage treatment plants are disproportionately located in communities of color; we will also pay attention to how specific corporations create the underlying rationale for plotting industrial sites. After outlining some of the core issues raised in this scholarship, we will turn to cultural productions–like literature, film, and music–to understand how people of color respond to environmental injustice and imagine the natural world.
The Class:
Format: lecture/discussion
Limit: 20
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Limit: 20
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation:
evaluation will be based on class participation, 2-3 short papers (5-7 pages), and a self-scheduled final
Prerequisites:
none
Distributions:
Division II
Exploring Diversity Initiative
Notes:
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
SOC 211 Division II AMST 211 Division II ENVI 211 Division II AFR 211 Division II
SOC 211 Division II AMST 211 Division II ENVI 211 Division II AFR 211 Division II
Attributes:
AFR Core Electives
AMST Comp Studies in Race, Ethnicity, Diaspora
ENVI Humanities, Arts + Social Science Electives
ENVP SC-B Group Electives
AMST Comp Studies in Race, Ethnicity, Diaspora
ENVI Humanities, Arts + Social Science Electives
ENVP SC-B Group Electives
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AFR 211 - 01 (F) LEC Race and the Environment
AFR 211 - 01 (F) LEC Race and the EnvironmentDivision II Exploring Diversity InitiativeJames A. Manigault-BryantTR 11:20 am - 12:35 pm
Schapiro Hall 1291105
Megamenu Social