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Jun 05, 2026
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2026-2027 Undergraduate Catalog
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US 212 Where Race Lives, What Race Says
(4 Credits)
In a highly racialized society like the U.S., our lived experience of race is not theoretical or abstract — but rather it’s an embodied, sensory experience that has impacted every single one of us to varying degrees. This experience deserves a voice. In this course, we use memoir and storytelling, poetry and spoken word, bodymapping and spacemapping, to explore and express how we have been impacted by race personally, and also, how racialization affects different bodies differently. We will also look at the subtle and not-so-subtle ways that the racialization of bodies in general, and white body supremacy specifically, shapes the policies that impact our lives. Topics discussed include: neurobiology and sensory aspects of race, the impact of white body supremacy, ethnographic case studies of somatic racialization and its impact, and how race plays out in the spaces where bodies meet –neighborhoods, schools, workplaces. By layering the sensorium of race alongside the social structures of race, and then leveraging the potency of creative expression, students will bridge the gap between our internal and external understanding of racialization and racism. This course fulfills (AUC) requirements CABR – CE – W – IL
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