COMM 386: RACE, INEQUALITY & REPRESENTATION

“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.” (James Baldwin)

This course deals with issues of racial stratification and inequality in the United States, and the ways in which we understand them – the stories we tell ourselves about why the world is organized as it. It deals with both the reality of race as well as the way that reality is represented, and why, as a society, we refuse to seriously address its disastrous consequences. The course comprises 25 lectures and were filmed in Fall 2024.