ENGL 21040. LEGAL AND LITERARY CONSTRUCTIONS OF WHITENESS In this course we will consider how law and literature work in tandem to define, theorize, and justify the concept of race-especially through the construction, explanation, and defense of the concept of whiteness. Literary texts will include novels, poems, and plays: Shakespeares Othello, Aphra Behns Oroonoko, Henry Fieldings Jonathan Wild, Robert Rogers Ponteach, and Claudia Rankines Dont Let Me Be Lonely, for example. We will also look at political theory and philosophy from John Locke, Thomas Jefferson, Montaigne and Cedric Robinson, W.E.B. DuBois, and Olufemi O. Taiwo. We will also look at critical legal studies and critical race theory from thinkers including Derrick Bell, Cheryl Harris, Gregory Ablavsky, and Sora Han. [AH]
- Trainer/in: Allison Cardon