Anthro of Race, Class & Gender

This course will introduce students to how concepts of race, class, and gender have been constructed cross-culturally. Students will use cross-cultural ethnographic examples from egalitarian, ranked and stratified societies to examine how systems of social inequality based on race, class and gender are created and maintained; how these social categories are used to promote group loyalties and allegiances; and how global community building can occur across social divides of gender, social class, race, ethnicity and/or nationhood. Offered either semester.