HIS 213 CC: RACE, CAPITALISM, CLIMATE
An exploration of how the economic system known as capitalism produces racialized inequality and climate degradation on a world scale. Students will learn how racialized inequality and climate degradation began at least in the industrial and colonial era if not prior, with disproportionate effects on the colonized world. Students will then explore how, in the period known as “decolonization” and especially since the 1970s, inequality, poverty, and alienation characterize a greater portion of the world’s population than in the past. While technological advancements make it seem that people, ideas, and objects are more mobile (“transnational”) and that national borders are eroding, the truth is that the nation-state has not been left behind; more borders and boundaries have been constructed in the past few decades to secure exclusive rights for select first-world citizens.
Notes
Cross Listed Courses
This is the same course as
ES 213/
CRE 213.
Enrollment Limit
Enrollment limited to 38 students.
Attributes
CC, MOIE, SDP