Transfers ToCSUCSU GE Area DDescriptionThis introductory Ethnic Studies course examines how U.S. processes of racial formation and gendering are related to multiple transnational circulations of commodities, bodies, labor, capital, knowledge, and culture. The class will interrogate the material and ideological work of borders – particularly nation-state borders – but also the borders and boundaries of racial and ethnic categories, gendered and sexualized identities, languages, forms of labor, and disciplinary categories of knowledge. The class will explain how racialized categories of difference have been historically co-constructed with borders and citizenship and will grant students the opportunity to critically reflect on the complex and nuanced ways in which people's lives are both constrained by borders and transcend them. 