Sociology 241 - Race, Empire and Discipline

Race, Empire and Discipline

Fall
2025
01
4.00

TU TH 2:45 PM - 4:00 PM

Smith College
SOC-241-01-202601
This course explores the role of the state in the creation of both race and discipline as it exists in the contemporary U.S. Students begin to understand how these apparatuses allow for the creation and expansion of the U.S. empire. In particular, the course looks at the racialization of Muslims to see how race, discipline and empire are all collective processes and have clear examples of how these processes play out. Students look at how discipline itself is racialized and creates the scaffolding for expanding U.S. empire and then they imagine an alternative world, one without racialized discipline and U.S. empire. Prerequisite: SOC 101. Enrollment limited to 35. (E)

[CE] SOC 101

Permission is required for interchange registration during the add/drop period only.