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Fall 2023
Dec 22, 2024 |
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| POSC 270 - Race, Politics, and the Law |
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A critical examination of race in the political and legal systems and how they have evolved historically. The objective is to gain a better understanding of how the legal and judicial systems have historically defined and employed racial categories and how this influences the present. Topics include racial servitude, segregation, equal protection, employment discrimination, and the Civil Rights Acts. Students consider how national, state, and local governments in the United States have shaped the lives of African Americans, Latino Americans and Asian Americans through the institutionalization of discrimination and the application of policies based on racist assumptions with the primary focus on how African Americans have used the political and legal systems to respond to prejudice, discrimination, and racism.
1.000 Credit hours 4.000 Lecture hours Levels: Non-Matriculated, Undergraduate Schedule Types: Lecture Political Sci, Law, &Global St Department Course Attributes: Dv1_DomainGenEd-Domain III-A, Undergraduate Level Course, Lrng Objective 01, Lrng Objective 02, Lrng Objective 04 |
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