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An introduction to the interdisciplinary and comparative study of race and ethnicity in the United States. The course surveys critical events, histories, cultures, intellectual traditions, and contributions of racial and ethnic communities, emphasizing the lived experiences, social struggles, agency, theory and knowledge produced by Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, and Chicana/o/x and Latina/o/x Americans. The course will also critically analyze the intersection of race and racism with class, gender, and sexuality as applied to the above groups, and further assess the role of resistance, solidarity, racial justice, social justice and liberation as experienced and enacted by Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans and Chicana/o/x and Latina/o/x/e Americans.