UIUC - Race and Cultural Diversity in American Life and History
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Race and Cultural Diversity in American Life and History at Coursera Overview
Duration | 8 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Race and Cultural Diversity in American Life and History at Coursera Highlights
- Earn a shareable certificate upon completion.
- Flexible deadlines according to your schedule.
Race and Cultural Diversity in American Life and History at Coursera Course details
- Learners will deepen their understanding and appreciation of ways in which race, ethnicity and cultural diversity have shaped American institutions, ideology, law, and social relationships from the colonial era to the present. Race and ethnicity are ideological and cultural categories that include all groups and individuals. Hence, this course is designed in significant part to take a broad look at the ideology of race and cultural diversity in America?s past and present. The primary focus is on the historical and social relationships among European Americans, Native Americans, African Americans, Latino/as, and Asian/Pacific Americans. Issues of race and ethnicity are examined across different ethno-cultural traditions in order to interweave diverse experiences into a larger synthesis of the meaning of race and ethnicity in American life. In this course, we conceive of ?race? and ?diversity? as references to the entire American population, even as we recognize that different groups have unique historical experiences resulting in distinctive and even fundamental cultural differences. We treat race and ethnicity as dynamic, complex ideological and cultural processes that shape all social institutions, belief systems, inter-group relationships, and individual experiences.
Race and Cultural Diversity in American Life and History at Coursera Curriculum
Introduction to Concepts of Race and Identity
1.1 Introducing the Key Concepts and Social Challenges
1.2 Exploring Attitudes to Race and Identity
1.3 What Is Race?
1.4 Race and American Identity
1.5 Fear of Multiethnic Democracy
1.6 Social and Economic Benefits of a Diverse Democracy
Supplementary Readings and Videos
Historical Legacies of Race in the United States
2.1 Race: The Power of an Illusion
2.2 Race in the Foundation of American Society
2.3 Slavery as an Economic and Political System, and its Abolition
2.4 Racial Exclusion for Asians and Native Americans
2.5 Revisiting ?Race? as a Socio-historical Construction
2.6 Race and Immigration
2.7 Practices of Racial Subordination
2.8 Laws and Customs Based on Race
2.9 Past Is Prologue
Further Reading
Legacies of Race and Racism Today
3.1 Progress and Contestation
3.2 How Race Is Lived in America (1)
3.3 How Race Is Lived in America (2)
3.4 Geographical Segregation Today
3.5 Implicit Racial Bias
3.6 Facing the Future
Supplementary Resources: How Race is Lived in America
Race and Ethnicity in American Social Institutions
4.1 Institutional Racism
4.2 Social Disparities of Race and Ethnicity
4.3 Identifying Discrimination in Everyday Social Practice
4.4 Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Wealth and Income
4.5 Inequalities in Education and Housing
Supplementary Resources: Institutional Racism
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