ASIA AM 156

Main Course

Palestine: A Comparative Ethnic Studies Approach

Description

Seminar, three hours. Examination of Palestinians through interdisciplinary ethnic studies optics and frameworks. Engagement with the question of Palestine from variety of ethnic studies theories and ideas including settler-colonialism and indigenous sovereignty; policing, prison and carceral regimes; class consciousness; war, empire, and imperialism; sexual and gender politics, refugee/migrant activist frameworks; apartheid; and international law and rights-based regimes. Exploration of historic bonds of reciprocal solidarity between Palestinians and oppressed peoples and movements across the world. P/NP or letter grading.