AMST 6424

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AMST 6424
Ethnoracial Identity in Anthropology, Language, and Law

Course information provided by the 2020-2021 Catalog.

In this course, we examine the role that law and language, as mutually constitutive mediating systems, occupy in constructing ethnoracial identity in the United States. We will approach law from a critical anthropological perspective, as a signifying and significant sociocultural system, rather than as an objective structure of rational rules and processes, to consider how legal norms, procedures, and discourses inform other processes of sociocultural production and reproduction, thus contributing to the creation and maintenance of differential power relations. We will draw on anthropological, linguistic, and critical race theory as well as ethnographic and legal material to guide and document our analyses.


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When Offered Spring.

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  • 17701 AMST 6424   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Enrollment limited to students who are able to attend in-person classes in the Ithaca area.

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