Department of History

Race, Power, and Privilege Courses

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Race, Power, and Privilege Courses

In their content and their objectives, Race, Power, and Privilege (RPP) courses examine issues of structural inequality, racial formations and/or disparities, and systems of power within a complex, pluralistic world

  • The ways different forms of power and privilege construct racial and identity formations in the U.S. and/or globally; the cultural, political, and intellectual responses to this racialization.

  • How categories of race and ethnicity are produced intersectionally in relation to other hierarchical structures of difference including gender, sexual orientation, class, religion, ability, citizenship status, and geography.

  • The structures, institutions, practices, and attitudes that enable, maintain, or mitigate domestic and/or global disparities in health, income, education outcomes, media representations, etc.

  • The ways in which disciplinary structures of knowledge have been embedded in such historical formations as racism and colonialism.

Fall 2024

  • HIST 0559C, Archives and Activism, Naoko Shibusawa

None Offered

  • HIST 0202, African Experiences of Empire, Nancy Jacobs

  • HIST 1120, At China's Edges, Rebecca Nedostup

  • HIST 1320, Cuba, 1492-Present, Jennifer Lambe

  • HIST 1457, Understanding the Palestinians, Beshara Doumani

  • HIST 1553, Empires in America to 1890, Naoko Shibusawa

  • HIST 1830B, Sigmund Freud to Donald Trump, Michael Steinberg

  • HIST 1964L, Slavery in the Early Modern World, Adam Teller

  • HIST 1971D, From Emancipation to Obama Francoise Hamlin

  • HIST 1974U, Incarceration in the Americas, Daniel Rodriguez

Spring 2025

  • HIST 0537A, Popular Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean, Jennifer Lambe

  • HIST 0690E, Gender, Sexuality in Cold War Americas, Marina Adams

  • HIST 0203, Modern Africa, Jennifer Johnson

  • HIST 0285A Modern Genocide and Other Crimes, Omer Bartov

  • HIST 1032, South Africa: Apartheid and After, Nancy Jacobs

  • HIST 1340, The History of the Andes from Incas to Evo Morales, Jeremy Mumford

  • HIST 1381, Latin America History and Film, Daniel Rodriguez

  • HIST 1554, American Empire Since 1890, Naoko Shibusawa

  • HIST 1970G, Atlantic Slavery in Digital Age, Linford Fisher

  • HIST 1974P, Modernity's Crisis: Jewish History, Adam Teller

  • HIST 1977I, Gender, Race, Medicine in Americas, Daniel Rodriguez

Additional Course Information

Writing Designated Courses

The History Department offers a wide variety of courses that can fulfill the College's Writing Designated (WRIT) requirement.

Overview of Courses

A brief guide to some of the history department’s course offerings for the academic year.