Race and Culture in the Americas
Examines how marginalized group experiences in the U.S. intertwine with hemispheric history, focusing on race concepts like mestizaje and one-drop rule.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2026: 3.79 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Identify different forms in which race and ethnicity have been constructed across the Americas, the ways in which the histories of certain groups have been devalued or overlooked, and the implications for our present.
Identify different understandings of race and ethnicity –for example, the tension between cultural difference and structural domination– and question assumptions commonly held in political discourse, media, arts, and literature.
Discuss with one another how race and ethnicity condition experiences of social mobility, justice, and a sense of community, reflecting an increasingly multicultural global environment.
Recognize social inequalities and intervene in contemporary discussions on racism through an appropriate use of evidence, critical tools, and analysis.
Identify how different disciplinary frameworks (ethnic studies, Latinx Studies, and critical race theory, etc.) can be used to understand the racialized nature of the major questions of the present, including climate change, public health, surveillance, violence, and mass incarceration.
Present research in a clear, concise, and engaging manner.
Produce evidence-based, original arguments through both written and oral assignments.
Source: UW Guide 1· UW Guide 2
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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2026: 3.79 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=7 letter grades).
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Topics
- Concepts of race: one drop rule, mestizaje, racial democracy, color-blindness.
- Intersections of race with gender, class, migration, slavery, and US expansionism.
- Comparative race relations models in Latin America and the U.S.
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- Analyze how race and ethnicity have been constructed across the Americas.
- Use evidence and critical tools to analyze social inequalities and racism.
- Apply disciplinary frameworks like critical race theory to contemporary issues.
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