HUMI 5 - Storytelling in American Culture

    Recent Professors
    Andrew Wood
    Recent Semesters
    Fall 2026
    Class Size
    Not published
    Credits
    4
    Fall 2026 Sections
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    Transfers To
    UC and CSUCal-GETC Area 3B · IGETC Area 3B · CSU GE Area C2
    Description
    This course critically examines how stories are told, memories are selected, organized, transformed, contested, and retold among different racial and ethnic groups within the United States, during the 20th and 21st centuries. The stories of primarily Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, and Latinx peoples in conversation with White Supremacy. The course articulates and critically analyzes concepts including race, racism, racialization, ethnicity, ethnocentrism, Eurocentrism, white supremacy, equity, self-determination, resistance, liberation, decolonization, sovereignty, imperialism, settler colonialism, and anti-racism.