CLASSIC 173

Main Course

Classics and Social Justice

Description

Lecture, three hours. Classical antiquity has long been perceived as the privileged inheritance of white Euro-American culture. While there has been a long history of the Greco-Roman classics being used and misused to justify domination, there has also been an equally profound history of it being reappropriated for liberation. Exploration of how the classics has been used by Black, Indigenous, and people of color artists and activists in the U.S. for different social justice movements. Study engages with classical works and their modern retellings to explore topics such as racial justice, indigeneity, immigration, and gender and sexuality. P/NP or letter grading.