Course Code: STC331

This online course explores the complexities of racism and paths toward unity. We will use a Framework for Collective Learning rooted in decades of global and domestic community building and social action to provide a lens for addressing systemic issues and highlighting principles, such as interconnectedness and justice. We recognize that racism has stratified all of humanity, with Blackness serving as a barometer against which all peoples are held in tension. For this reason, this course will respond to a broader scope of discourses about race to acknowledge the prejudice aimed at all groups who have been racialized and the contributions of those groups to the race unity discourse. Students will apply their learning in their respective communities in a project to foster dialogue, understanding, and mutual learning. Our focus is on process and coherence, avoiding deficit framing of communities and centering instead on the telling of people’s own stories and experiences in pursuit of transcending racializations. Students will build the capacity to contribute to race-related discourses in their academic work, lived experiences, and community-building efforts.