This seminar looks closely at the history of categories, assumptions, and ideas used to analyze educational inequality in US higher education. This course will guide students through scholarly thought on 1) the historical, political, and educational consequences of the labeling and emergence of racialized or "othered" groups in the context of higher education, and 2) critical, intellectual, and pragmatic interventions that have emerged from a range of disciplines and thinkers for imagining and building equitable higher education spaces beyond the constraints of hegemonic structures. This course draws from multiple disciplines to consider how identities are constructed in discourse and policy in order to differentially deliver benefits and burdens over time.
Credits: 3.0