Topic: Race & the American University
| Time | Days | Location | Instructor | GER | Credit | OPUS Class Number | Syllabus (Tentative) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2:00pm-2:50pm | MWF | Tarbutton Hall 106 | Urban, Andrew. | HSC. | 4 | 13431 | TBA. |
Content: Race and the American University aims to examine how race has informed the lives of staff, students, and faculty at Emory University. In particular, we will focus on the involvement of the Emory community in the politics of race on campus, in Atlanta, and in the world more broadly. Students will be encouraged to connect the history of race at Emory to the present, by exploring critically how race continues to affect universities as places of learning, labor, and public engagement.
Uniquely, students' primary assignment for this course will be to work collaboratively with each other - as well as with partners outside of the classroom - in order to curate a museum-style exhibition that will be on display for view by the public. In preparation for curating this exhibit, students will learn about public history practices such as oral history and exhibit design, while also engaging theoretical subjects in the field, such as the politics of public memory and history's relationship to civic engagement and social activism. This course is being offered in conjunction with the Transforming Community Project - for more information, see: http://transform.emory.edu.
Texts: Kevin Kruse, White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism; W. Fitzhugh Brundage, The Southern Past: A Clash of Race and Memory; Noliwe Rooks, White Money/Black Power: The Surprising History of African; American Studies and the Crisis of Race in Higher Education; Wendy Brown, Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire; Jennifer Washburn, University Inc.: The Corporate Corruption of Higher Education
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