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The following list features a sample of undergraduate courses related to the study of race. To suggest additional courses to be included on this list, please contact Landy Elliott.
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  • African & African American Studies
  • Arts of the Moving Image
  • Asian Middle Eastern Studies
  • Biology
  • Computational Media, Arts & Cultures
  • Cultural Anthropology
  • Documentary Studies
  • Environment
  • Ethics
  • Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies
  • Global Heath
  • History
  • Human Rights
  • International Comparative Studies
  • Latino/a Studies in the Global South
  • Literature
  • Political Science
  • Public Policy
  • Public Policy Studies
  • Religion
  • Science and Society
  • Sociology
  • Theater
  • Visual and Media Studies
  • Writing

World of Gaming: Art, Theory, Technology, and Business of a Multi-Billion Dollar Global Industry

Nayoung Aimee Kwon
AMES 455S
Spring 2019

Topics in North American History

Thavolia Glymph
HISTORY 790S

Sociology of Racism in America

Eduardo de Silva or Tyson Haywood Brown
SOCIOL215, AAAS246, LSGS316, RIGHTS215
Fall 2019

Refugees, Rights, Resettlement

Suzanne Shanahan
ETHICS199FS/SOCIOL178FS/RIGHTS178FS
Fall 2019

Reckoning with a Hierarchy of Human Value Across U.S. History

Donald Taylor
PPS 302D
Spring 2020

Racial/Ethnic Minorities in American Politics

Ashley E. Jardina
AAAS 257
Fall 2020

Race/Racism/Democracy

Lee Baker
CULANTH 535S
Fall 2019

Race, Genomics, and Society

Charmaine Royal
AAAS 261D/SCISOC 258D/GLHLTH 258D/CULANTH 261D/BIOLOGY 261D/RIGHTS 261D
Fall 2019

Performance and Citizenship in Asian America

Esther K. Lee
THEATER 252FS/Immigration and Citizenship Focus Cluster
Fall 2020

Nature, Culture and Gender

Saskia Cornes
GSF 366
Spring 2020

Moments in Black (Radical) Theory: Ferguson, #RhodesMustFall, Silent Sam, #MeToo

Anne-Maria B. Makhulu & Prof. Joseph Winters
AAAS 503S
Fall 2019

Martin Luther King and the Prophetic Tradition

Omid Safi
AMES317/RELIGION234/AAAS249/PUBPOL253/RIGHTS249
Spring 2020

Introduction to Public History (UNC)

Anne Mitchell Whisnant
History 671
Spring 2020

Immigrant Dreams/US Realities

Gunther Peck
HISTORY 352/PUBPOL 220/RIGHTS 352
Fall 2018

Identity and Linguistic Rights in the Spanish Speaking Americas

Liliana Paredes
RIGHTS 409S
Spring 2019

Human Rights in the Americas

Robin Kirk
Cultural Anthropology: CULANTH 245S
Fall 2019

History of Latinxs in the United States

Celilia Marquez
HISTORY 122/GSF 122
Spring 2020

History of Inequality

Adam Edward Hollowell, William A. Darity Jr.
HISTORY 288
Spring 2021

Historicizing Whiteness

Gunther Peck
HISTORY 411S/PUBPOL 411S
Fall 2016

Global Environmental Justice

Rebecca VidraStudent Instructors: Rachita Gowdu, Isabel Wood, Leah Roffman, Ashley RosenHOUSECS 59.10Fall 2021 The house course aims to provide students with a strong understanding of the connections between environmental justice internationally and within the United States. This course is set up as a series of guest lectures given by prominent academics and environmental justice advocates […]

Global ‘Mixed Race’ Studies: Global Perspectives on ‘Mixed Race’, Citizenship and Immigration

Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe
CULANTH 220FS/ Immigration and Citizenship Focus Cluster
Fall 2020

Gateway Seminar: Civil Rights and Asian Americans

Sucheta Mazumdar (Course also taught by Susan Bramley Thananopavarn in Writing Program)
HISTORY 183S/AMES 187S/RIGHTS 183S/AAAS 133S/ICS 183S/PUBPOL 175S
Spring 2020

Ethnofuturism: Writing the Future of Race

Susan Thananopavarn
Writing 101
Spring 2020

Environment and Conflict: The Role of the Environment in Conflict and Peacebuilding

Erika Weinthal
ENVIRON 216S/PUBPOL 279S/POLSCI 367S/ICS 229S/RIGHTS 229S
Fall 2018

Decolonization: Histories, Meanings, Struggles

Jessica Namakkal
ICS 335S /Immigration and Citizenship Focus Cluster
Fall 2020

Death, Burial, and Justice in the Americas

Adam Rosenblatt
AAAS 283S
Spring 2020

Comparative Urban Politics and Policymaking

Kerry L. Haynie, Ralph Bruce Lawrence
ICS 213S, POLSCI/RIGHTS 235S, PUBPOL 285S
Fall 2018

Chinatowns: A Cultural History

Eileen Chow
AMES 335/HISTORY 228/AMI 337/ICS 336
Fall 2019

Black Popular Culture

Mark Anthony Neal
AAAS 331, VMS 230
Spring 2021

Bass Connections: Digital Durham

Victoria Szabo
CMAC 758S
2017-2018

Asian American Narratives: Literature, History and Activism

Susan Thananopavarn
Writing 101
Spring 2019

Asian American Memoir: Exploring Representation through Life Writing

Susan Thananopavarn
Writing 101
Fall 2019

Archiving and Visualizing Asia

Nayoung Aimee Kwon
AMES476S, ICS411S, AMI476S, LIT476S, VMS476S, HISTORY446S, DOCST476S
Fall 2019

Arabic Sources on American Slavery

Mbaye Lo and Carl Ernst (UNC)
AMES 490S; REL 681 at UNC
Fall 2019

Anthropology of Race

Lee Baker
AAAS 251/CultAnth208/ICS239/RIGHTS 208
Spring 2020

African American Women and History

Thavolia Glymph
HISTORY 790S