Religion, Race, and Migration: Borders of Difference?

AMERICAN CULTURE STUDIES 334R

This seminar is an experiment in studying the intersections of religion, race, and migration through the idea of difference. We discuss how particular understandings of religion, race, and migration inform contemporary scholarship and shape national and international legal and governmental practices. Specifically, this course explores how difference-of community, body, and place-produces conditions of possibility. Over the semester, we will investigate various borders of difference, using binaries to guide our analysis. We will examine this through a range of problem spaces including: religion/secularism; race/ethnicity/sect; terrorist/citizen; and refugee/migrant. Ultimately, this course aims to critically unpack the relations of power by which people, places, and ideas are differentially constructed, maintained, and transformed
Course Attributes: BU Eth; BU BA; AS HUM; FA HUM; AR HUM; AS SC; EN H

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Religion, Race, and Migration: Borders of Difference? - 01
INSTRUCTOR: Lukasik