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Duration

3 weeks

Total fee

2,205

Mode of learning

Online

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  • Duration 3 weeks
  • Weekly study 3 hours
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  • This course will develop your understanding of anti-Blackness and anti-Black racism in America.
  • You'll trace the global history of racism and learn about the Black-White binary that exists in our world today.
  • Issues of police brutality and their unjust murders of Black American civilians sparked a wave of protests in the Summer of 2020 calling attention to the devaluation of Black lives in America and around the world. This institutional racism in America can be traced back hundreds of years.
  • On this course, you'll learn how racial prejudice is structurally, institutionally, and systemically rooted in American society.
  • The US is unique in that anti-Blackness was foundational in the creation and setup of the country.
  • You'll consider the ways racism was built into the structure of America and learn how race, racism, and anti-Black racism are conceptually connected to one another.
  • Using the course material as well as personal experiences, you'll consider how Black Americans are exposed to and affected by systemic anti-Black racism.
  • You'll also study how racism continues to manifest itself organizationally in different institutions.
  • The course is led and delivered by Dr. David Embrick from the University of Connecticut. You'll benefit from Embrick's 20 years of teaching experience, as you explore the social construction of race and systemic racism from an academic standpoint.
  • Dr Embrick's research centers on racism theories, whiteness, diversity ideologies, racial microaggressions, racial attitudes, and the racialisation of place and space.
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Anti-Black Racism in America
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Curriculum

The social construction of race

Welcome to the course

Introduction to Week 1

Introduction to U.S. Anti-Black racism

Slavery in the U.S.

What is race? The social and legal construction of race

Summary

Anti-Black racism, systemic racism and white privilege

What is racism?

Foundational Terms

Roadmap for Week 2

Conceptualizing Racism

Old Jim Crow vs New Racism

Anti-Black racism, systemic racism, and racialized social systems

White privilege

Summary

Let's recap

Institutional racism and racialized organizations

Introductory video

Introduction to Week 3

Institutional racism

Racialized organizations

Implicit bias

Health implications of racism

Summary

Let's recap

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